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Koven

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Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 154

Firefox 30 crashing

Hi,

I've last one version of firefox in my laptop. Sometimes it's crashing with no explanation, just crashes when I open a random tab. This is the only thing I find in journalctl.

jun 17 20:08:14 koven firefox.desktop[1654]: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
jun 17 20:12:10 koven systemd-coredump[5441]: Core too large, core will not be stored.
jun 17 20:12:10 koven systemd-coredump[5441]: Process 1654 (firefox) dumped core.
jun 17 20:12:10 koven systemd-coredump[5442]: Process 4938 (Chrome_ChildThr) dumped core.
jun 17 20:12:21 koven kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[4939]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f2b39eda64d sp 00007f2b269af4f0 error 6 in libmozalloc.so[7f2b39ed9000+2000]
jun 17 20:12:21 koven firefox.desktop[1654]: [128B blob data]
jun 17 20:12:21 koven firefox.desktop[1654]: [4938] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/firefox/src/mozilla-release/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1522
jun 17 20:12:30 koven firefox.desktop[5444]: (process:5444): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

I've ducked a lot in internet but nothing found. Please let me know if i'm missing something.

thank you...

6ng4n

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Registered: 2012-02-07

Posts: 84

Re: Firefox 30 crashing

My guess is one or more of your plugins using libvdpau_i965.so. Maybe you manually(or via AUR) installed some sort of plugin that tries to load libvdpau_i965.so. Try to move your firefox profile like:

$ mv ~/.mozilla/firefox ~/myfirefoxprofile

and enable plugins one by one.
And you can always check packages requiring firefox

$ pacman -Qi firefox

There is a Required by field in the info.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,322

Re: Firefox 30 crashing

Currently firefox has problems with gst-vaapi for hardware acceleration, so if you have it, remove gst-vaapi and use software rendering for videos (gst-libav, ...)

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Koven

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Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 154

Re: Firefox 30 crashing

Thank you but I've a fresh installation of arch linux, Lenovo X230, and it's happening since the begining. I've same extensions in another laptop and never crashes like this.

No gst-vaapi installed on my system so i don't think there's any problem with hardware acceleration.

Thanks for your ideas, I think I'll wait for a new upgrade.

kotnik

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From: France

Registered: 2011-10-19

Posts: 34

Re: Firefox 30 crashing

Removing gst-vaapi solved Firefox segfaulting issue for me. Thanks, progandy!

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doubleshot

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Registered: 2013-09-01

Posts: 12

Re: Firefox 30 crashing

Crashing doesn't seem to be the only problem. Just one example: video (or just the audio) stops completely after playing an video in youtube's html5 player. This happen particularly often after I played a few video - without any problems I might add.

The current nightly runs fine with vaapi installed, but it's pretty unstable, at least on my machine (nvidia mobile gpu).

_abraxas

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Registered: 2010-11-23

Posts: 43

Re: Firefox 30 crashing

well, i get crashes without having  gst-vaapi installed, but only libav.
another thread i found: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=182754

edit: nevermind - seems to be libxcursor-related, not gstreamer-related

Last edited by _abraxas (2014-06-29 20:59:01)