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FS#52756 - [firefox] about:support crashing

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) - Saturday, 28 January 2017, 22:16 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 14:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
about:support crashes firefox (segmentation fault) in version 51.0.1-1
I tried using a clean profile with same results.

[Child 21565] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/firefox/src/firefox-51.0.1/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2056
[Child 21565] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/firefox/src/firefox-51.0.1/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 2056
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 14:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Not a firefox bug. Crash in mesa rc. Already fixed in 17 final which is in staging.
Comment by Daniel M. Capella (polyzen) - Sunday, 29 January 2017, 03:16 GMT
Works here on two profiles.

If you have any extensions installed globally, like from a package, the profiles may not be entirely clean, unless perhaps you also used safe mode.
Comment by Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) - Sunday, 29 January 2017, 06:53 GMT
firefox -safe-mode does work, although I still haven't found the cause of the problem.
Comment by Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) - Sunday, 29 January 2017, 10:04 GMT
I downgraded to firefox-50.1.0-1 and it didn't have this problem (with an empty profile). When I upgraded back to the latest version the problem appeared again.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 30 January 2017, 03:43 GMT
No problems here, either
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Monday, 30 January 2017, 07:38 GMT
IIRC these errors are printed by the content processes when the chrome process crashes. Check journalctl or coredumpctl for backtraces.
Comment by Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) - Monday, 30 January 2017, 12:34 GMT
I am attaching a part of journalctl. It looks to me that radeonsi_dri.so is to blame. I am using Mesa 17rc2 (I should have mentioned that) so this is likely.
   journal.txt (5.8 KiB)
Comment by Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) - Tuesday, 07 February 2017, 10:36 GMT
After upgrading to Mesa 17rc3 about:support works properly.

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