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Yann21

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Registered: 2020-06-12

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X11 crashes when starting chromium - libva error / X IO error received

Hi,

I ran chromium in a terminal to catch the logs before the X11 server crashed and here's the only thing I could find:

[27319:27319:1117/093641.157258:ERROR:vaapi_wrapper.cc(529)] vaInitialize failed: unknown libva error
[27319:27319:1117/093641.159932:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[27291:27291:1117/093648.636928:ERROR:x11_error_handler.cc(63)] X IO error received (X server probably went away)
[27319:27319:1117/093648.636208:ERROR:x11_util.cc(115)] X IO error received (X server probably went away)

Could someone point me in the direction of solving this problem? It seems like chromium doesn't keep more detailed logs of its own and I don't really understand the previous output.

V1del

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Re: X11 crashes when starting chromium - libva error / X IO error received

Neither of these should be related to whatever your actual issue is. Look into your xorg.log why does X crash? Which GPU and driver do you have. Are you still trying to use xmonad? Can you reproduce this on anything that isn't xmonad? Is it actually X that crashes and not xmonad? FWIW on a quick wiki check, is xmonad-contrib installed and included in the config?

Last edited by V1del (2020-11-17 09:20:58)

Yann21

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Registered: 2020-06-12

Posts: 28

Re: X11 crashes when starting chromium - libva error / X IO error received

Given the logs, I thought it was X11 but after testing on i3 you're right the culprit is xmonad.
GPU: GTX 660 / Driver: nouveau
xmonad-contrib is imported.

For some reason, I can't replicate the problem at the moment. That in itself is a bit strange.
I'll be back to run more tests as soon as it comes back.