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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

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Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

This seems ridiculous but for the last few days I have not be able to access https://chess24.com/ from my Arch boxes. If I use chromium (my normal browser), it immediately gives me an "Aw shucks" on any page on the site. Firefox completely dies and gives a core dump, and gnome web browser gives a "Oops!" page. Deleting all cookies etc makes no difference, nor does accessing it from an incognito window. This happens on my main Arch PC. On my similarly configured Arch Dell notebook both Firefox and GNOME browser fail the same way but chromium does display the site (usually). I've disabled extensions, plugins, hardware accel, etc but no difference. There have been thousands of people viewing chess24 in the last few days since the World Chess Rapid and Blitz champs have been on but nobody else is reporting any issues. My PC and notebook are quite fast boxes and I have no other problems with any other sites.

Does this happen to other Archers? Any ideas?

olive

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

This page crash all of my installed browser (firefox, chromium and opera). It must be something wrong with this page, although a bad page should not segfault firefox as it does in my case.

ayekat

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

dwb also dies there, but then again, dwb dies on a lot of sites
My firefox also dies on that page.

EDIT I don't know whether this is intentional, but it's pretty exceptional that a site can make most major browsers crash. Kudos to who ever wrote that site

EDIT2

Vector smash protection is enabled.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff03bdc65 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6

Last edited by ayekat (2015-10-15 11:51:47)

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bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

But it seems odd that of the thousands of people accessing that site in the last few days I've not seen anybody else complaining about any issues, except now for some fellow Archers?

I have visited that site very often over the last year without issue. This only started happening a few days ago.

bleach

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Registered: 2013-07-26

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

works fine with firefox for me with noscript enabled. all the scipts blocked is this *@https://d16lfcqjkxdsjm.cloudfront.net and FONT@https://d16lfcqjkxdsjm.cloudfront.net enabling any of them crashes firefox.

Last edited by bleach (2015-10-15 12:18:12)

loqs

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

With the font resource loaded in firefox seems to trigger infinite recursion through the following series of calls

#2273 0x00007f358e65e72b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0
#2274 0x00007f358e64c8d7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0
#2275 0x00007f358e62e35a in hb_shape_plan_execute () from /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0
#2276 0x00007f358e62d79e in hb_shape_full () from /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0
#2277 0x00007f358e3bfa19 in af_get_char_index () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#2278 0x00007f358e3bfb2c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#2279 0x00007f358e3c09e1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#2280 0x00007f358e3bf37b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#2281 0x00007f358e377885 in FT_Load_Glyph () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6
#2282 0x00007f358e377c30 in FT_Get_Advances () from /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6

pattern then repeats
started with my last system upgrade

[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded at-spi2-core (2.18.0-1 -> 2.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded at-spi2-atk (2.18.0-1 -> 2.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded harfbuzz (1.0.4-1 -> 1.0.5-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded libutil-linux (2.27-5 -> 2.27-6)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded util-linux (2.27-5 -> 2.27-6)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded pango (1.38.0-1 -> 1.38.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gtk-update-icon-cache (3.18.1-1 -> 3.18.2-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded glib-networking (2.46.0-1 -> 2.46.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded libsoup (2.52.0-1 -> 2.52.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gtk3 (3.18.1-1 -> 3.18.2-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded clutter (1.24.0-1 -> 1.24.2-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded caribou (0.4.18.1-3 -> 0.4.19-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded clutter-gtk (1.6.4-1 -> 1.6.6-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-desktop (1:3.18.0-1 -> 1:3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded curl (7.44.0-1 -> 7.45.0-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded ffmpeg (1:2.8-2 -> 1:2.8.1-2)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded cheese (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded chromium (45.0.2454.101-2 -> 46.0.2490.71-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded dconf-editor (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded flashplugin (11.2.202.521-1 -> 11.2.202.535-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gedit (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-calculator (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded harfbuzz-icu (1.0.4-1 -> 1.0.5-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-online-accounts (3.18.0-2 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded vte-common (0.42.0-1 -> 0.42.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded vte3 (0.42.0-1 -> 0.42.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gpgme (1.6.0-1 -> 1.6.0-2)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-control-center (3.18.1-1 -> 3.18.1-2)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-session (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-terminal (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded yelp (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-user-docs (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:53] [ALPM] upgraded gvfs (1.26.0-3 -> 1.26.1-3)
[2015-10-15 13:54] [ALPM] upgraded gvfs-afc (1.26.0-3 -> 1.26.1-3)
[2015-10-15 13:54] [ALPM] upgraded man-db (2.7.3-1 -> 2.7.4-1)
[2015-10-15 13:54] [ALPM] upgraded metacity (3.16.1-2 -> 3.18.1-1)
[2015-10-15 13:54] [ALPM] upgraded notification-daemon (3.18.0-1 -> 3.18.1-1)

most obvious candidate would seem to be harfbuzz
Edit:
downgrading harfbuzz and harfbuzz-icu to 1.0.4-1 fixes it for me with firefox

Last edited by loqs (2015-10-15 13:15:14)

Nis

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

Also happens on fivethirtyeight.com. Can confirm that downgrading harfbuzz and harfbuzz-icu to 1.04-1 fixes 538.com as well.

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 710

Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

Yes, thanks. Downgrading harfbuzz and harfbuzz-icu to 1.0.4-1 fixes all the browser crashes I was experiencing. I found a related bug and added a reference back to this thread. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46717.

Ropid

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

-nvm-

Last edited by Ropid (2015-10-15 23:19:43)

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From: Brisbane, Australia

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

Apparently harfbuzz 1.0.5-2 fixes the problem but that hasn't come to my mirror yet.

Last edited by bulletmark (2015-10-15 23:19:23)

Ropid

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Re: Suddenly I can not access a particular web site from Arch

That 1.0.5-2 update works for me on fivethirtyeight.com and chess24.com