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JamesStuck8

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Registered: 2020-09-28

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Chromium not working on AMDGPU

I cannot get Chromium (and both Google Chrome stable and beta) to display any page. Upon application startup it displays an error page reporting a SIGILL error. Starting from terminal I get:

[27506:27506:0308/111925.441373:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

Can someone please help me debugging this error?

Here is what I tried:

1. chrome --disable-gpu

   this gets rid of the error message, but not of the SIGILL error on the main window.

2.  rm -rf $HOME/.cache/{chromium,google-chrome,google-chrome-beta}

3.  rm -rf $HOME/.config/{chromium,google-chrome,google-chrome-beta}

4.  rm $HOME/.config/chromium-flags.conf

5.  chromium --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer

I tried to decode crash dump messages but I might need a bit of guidance for that because I wasn't able to read them.

Some info about my system:

• chromium --version

  gives

  Chromium 89.0.4389.82 Arch Linux

• uname -r

  gives

  5.10.21-1-lts

• pacman -Q | grep mesa

  gives

  lib32-libva-mesa-driver 20.3.4-3
  lib32-mesa 20.3.4-3
  lib32-mesa-vdpau 20.3.4-3
  libva-mesa-driver 20.3.4-3
  mesa 20.3.4-3
  mesa-demos 8.4.0-4
  mesa-vdpau 20.3.4-3

• pacman -Q | grep gpu

  gives

   xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1.0-2 

• pacman -Q | grep amd

  gives

  lib32-amdvlk 2021.Q1.4-1
  opencl-amd 20.45.1164792-4
  xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1.0-2

[EDIT] Add info about Chromium version and AMDGPU packages versions

Last edited by JamesStuck8 (2021-03-08 10:28:33)

JamesStuck8

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

Any suggestion?

Morn

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Registered: 2012-09-02

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

Install https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mesa-demos/ and see if glxgears works.

And maybe provide some more details about your setup, e.g. is it X or Wayland?

JamesStuck8

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Registered: 2020-09-28

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

Hi, thanks for answering. I confirm glxgears works. Few days ago I also successfully ran glamarks2. I think the problem is related to V8 because electron apps (Slack, Discord) and Google Chrome/Chromium stopped working.

I am in a X11 session on Gnome 3.38.4. I am using a 144Hz monitor if it matters. The GPU is a Radeon RX580 Nitro+, CPU is a Ryzen 2700x. Both are running at stock frequencies.

JamesStuck8

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

And I can confirm the same behavior using a Wayland session. To me it doesn't look like a X problem, otherwise more applications would be affected. Is anybody aware of anything going on with mesa? Any bug with V8? Are there config files I can check?

Morn

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

Maybe try starting it with "MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DISABLE=true".

Debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=918433

z3nox

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Registered: 2018-11-03

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

I occasionally get the same SIGILL error report while using webrtc within Chromium. Sometimes the tab wants a reload with this error reporting and other times the complete machine freezes. I use Chromium under xwayland and have an AMD GPU (Renoir APU, Ryzen 5 4650G). This behavior is all in all very frustrating.

I have tried to set "MESA_GLSL_CACHE_DISABLE=true" but the error message at the start

[547432:547432:0319/230937.865801:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

still persists. Also the freeze can still be triggered after some time in a video conference.

Morn

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

Well, I guess it's time to switch to Firefox then? The time-honored way of fixing intractable Linux problems: Just switch to something else until the bug is fixed.

JamesStuck8

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Registered: 2020-09-28

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

I also tried your suggestion Morn but it didn't work.
I guess the switch to FF is a viable option (and it's how I am writing this comment ) but FF lacks multi profiles support (e.g. separate personal and work bookmarks, extensions and settings)... Also, chromium ditched profile syncing a couple of weeks ago and that's why I had to switch to Google Chrome.

JamesStuck8

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Re: Chromium not working on AMDGPU

Ok after quick googling I figured out how to have multiple profiles with FF. Game, set, match!