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myprettygaythrowaway

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Somewhat random crashing of things like Firefox & VLC after upgrading

Ran pacman -Syu on the 11th, since then I'll have random crashes in Firefox, Librewolf, and VLC. The crashes are practically random - VLC will crash playing a quick video, then I'll be able to watch a whole movie, then I'll get through 15min of a movie before it crashes. Similar for Firefox - how many tabs are open doesn't seem to matter, it'll crash when it feels like it, it seems. Nothing Chrome-related - Chromium, Brave, FreeTube - has yet to crash, at all. Apart from trying to fix it, I've barely used my laptop since, so I don't know if this problem is contained to just these two programs, or what.

Running LTS kernel. Journal from the 12th. inxi -Gaz output here.

From lspci | grep -iE 'VGA|3D|video':

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107GLM [Quadro K1000M] (rev a1)

I've run memtest86, glmark2, stress-ng --cpu 4 --timeout 120, smartctl -a & -x; all came back with clean bills of health. I might be shaky on smartctl, though, so if you wanna see that, lemme know. Ran sudo downgrade linux-firmware-intel linux-firmware-nvidia, problem persists. Tried sudo pacman -Rsc intel-media-driver & sudo pacman -S --needed libva-intel-driver libva libva-utils, no dice. Finally, kept a tab open with journalctl -f while the stress tests & trying some VLC here. After LibreWolf crashed for the first time (after the stress tests & trying VLC), here's the last bit from that  journalctl -f tab:

Dec 14 13:00:46 southernplains systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-1-137061_137361-0.service: Deactivated successfully.

Dec 14 13:00:46 southernplains systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@0-1-137061_137361-0.service: Consumed 3.634s CPU time, 1G memory peak.

I've also tried blacklisting nouveau on startup; that didn't help. At this point, I'm at my wits' end - after a week, all the advice I see online seems to fixate on getting VLC to work or something, while I'm thinking that if everything's working fine before an update, and then two very different things break right after it... Anyway, I hope you folks can help me out, lemme know what else you need to see.

Trilby

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Re: Somewhat random crashing of things like Firefox & VLC after upgrading

VLC is segfaulting apparently in libgallium-25.3.1-arch1.2.so which I'm not finding as being provided by any package in the repo.  Can you confirm that this file exists under /lib, e.g.,

find /lib libgallium-25.3.1-arch1.2.so*

If it's there, check whether it is owned (`pacman -Qo /path/to/lib/file`).

Also please describe how you've configured your graphics drivers (as hybrid graphics systems have several options) as well as what mesa packages are installed.  I suspect the output of the following may also be useful:

eglinfo -B

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Somewhat random crashing of things like Firefox & VLC after upgrading

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310943

myprettygaythrowaway

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Re: Somewhat random crashing of things like Firefox & VLC after upgrading

Can you confirm that this file exists under /lib, e.g.,

find /lib libgallium-25.3.1-arch1.2.so*

Got a "No such file or directory" response.

Also please describe how you've configured your graphics drivers (as hybrid graphics systems have several options) as well as what mesa packages are installed.  I suspect the output of the following may also be useful:

eglinfo -B

Never did, just installed Arch, and several updates later, here we are.

Output from eglinfo -B: https://pastebin.com/ksR0ubwi

myprettygaythrowaway

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Re: Somewhat random crashing of things like Firefox & VLC after upgrading

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=310943

Librewolf crashed while I was reading up on it... Pastebin from the terminal tab I ran it out of: https://pastebin.com/rYdDVqLc

If I understood correctly, updating in a few days should fix it all?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Somewhat random crashing of things like Firefox & VLC after upgrading

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 73621a4a43

Looks like it's already in the process of being packaged, so depending on how long it stays in testing.