Since today's upgrade to -current, I get many tab crash in firefox

rvdboom · 12-21-2023, 03:31 PM

I updated to latest -current today and since them I have many sites crashing the tabs, including the firefox own saved passwords screen. This occur on my main workstation but not on my laptop, while both were upgraded today, so I don't think there is an issue with firefox itself, even if there has been bug reports similar to this.
I tried renaming my .mozilla folder in my HOME, but to no avail.
The process of the tab is killed by signal 11, with the following message:

Code:

Parent 23811, IPC I/O Parent] WARNING: process 23909 exited on signal 11: file /tmp/firefox-115.6.0/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc:264

There seems to be a bug reported in many versions of FF like this but it's unclear what triggers it. Some say that it comes from a change in some Google code but in my case, the problem did start with today's upgrade on sites I was still visiting this morning.

rvdboom · 12-21-2023, 04:51 PM

I reverted for now on FF 115.5 and it works well.
Don't know what's going on here...

chrisretusn · 12-21-2023, 11:48 PM

Latest (Thu Dec 21 20:46:11 UTC 2023) -current here. I normally run with the standard version of Firefox (mozilla-firefox-121.0-x86_64-1cgs.txz). I switch back to mozilla-firefox-115.6.0esr-x86_64-1.txz to check this out. No issues so far, working as expected.

Did you try running from Konsole and see if there is any output? None here.

rizitis · 12-22-2023, 01:57 AM

Maybe first try running from Konsole and see if there is any output as @chrisretusn said.
If nothing found try run FF from terminal in safe mode to temporarily disable hardware acceleration and other advanced features. This can help identify if certain features are causing the crashes.

Code:

firefox --safe-mode

This way FF runs with default settings and disables add-ons. If the problem goes away, it may be related to an extension or theme. You can then try disabling extensions one by one to identify the problematic one.

rvdboom · 12-22-2023, 09:30 AM

Some update here. My problem was apparently related to an issue with kernel 6.6.8. After rebooting to my previous 6.6.6 kernel (both self compiled), I don't have any tab crash anymore.
I'm not 100% sure it's a kernel issue or a memory occupation issue, as top was only displaying 2GB of free RAM before reboot, and I had libxul.so error 4 in dmesg, which is apparently related to memory allocation error. Could be a memory leak error somewhere (in that case, I should still have it after some time running the 6.6.6 kernel) or a memory freeing issue of kernel 6.6.8, I should see it later on.
Thanks everybody for the feedback anyway, always appreciated.

marav · 12-22-2023, 10:17 AM

Firefox doesn't really care which kernel is running. Fortunately

chrisretusn · 12-22-2023, 10:52 AM

Agree with what marav says. That said, what are the differences between your compile of the kernel and the stock compile configuration setting?

garpu · 12-22-2023, 11:58 AM

Filesystem corruption? The kernel might be a red herring.

Windu · 12-22-2023, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by garpu

Filesystem corruption? The kernel might be a red herring.

The kernel also provides the video drivers.
Looks like it is an issue which is reported by users of various distros over a fairly large span of time.
I came across this Manjaro post: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/is-anyon...efox/143406/17 stating:

Code:

Seems that I have been able to fix the crashes.
I read the troubleshooting, and I figured it out that crashes were due the video driver.
Long story short: I have intel platform, so the video driver in my case is i915 (Intel Ivy Bridge); I changed the “AccelMethod” to glamor:
I made the config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with the following content:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "glamor"
EndSection
Reboot the laptop, and since then, Firefox is stable as before.

May be a change worth checking out.

garpu · 12-22-2023, 04:35 PM

Oh hey, wasn't there someone else who had an issue with the i915 driver in the 6.6 tree?

chrisretusn · 12-22-2023, 07:20 PM

Slackware64-current kernel 6.6.7 and i915 module crash and blank screen