[arch-general] Firefox crashes randomly

[Zorro]

Hello

I have in my fstab size=192m.

But to check just start firefox in one shell window and check in another shell window with df whether there is enough space in /dev/shm.

Regards,
Harm-Jan Zwinderman

On 9/20/18 9:36 PM, Hubert Hauser via arch-general wrote:
> Hello!
>
> How is your recommended space for shared memory (/dev/shm)? Will be
> these instructions okay
> (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68434)? How many memory is
> allocated for /dev/shm by default?
>
> --
>
> Cheers,
> Hubert Hauser.
>
> On 20/09/2018 21:13, Zorro via arch-general wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Firefox 62.0 runs fine on my Arch system.
>>
>> Though I once encountered a similar issue as you describe.
>> I didn't allocate enough space for shared memory (/dev/shm) and that
>> caused then such crashes.
>>
>> In your case seems the 2 firefox child instances cannot communicate
>> with the parent instance through a pipe.
>>
>> Maybe worth checking the shared memory.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Harm-Jan Zwinderman
>>
>> On 9/20/18 6:43 PM, Hubert Hauser via arch-general wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> journalctl -qb /usr/bin/firefox returns nothing.
>>>
>>> Here's output after running firefox from command line:
>>>
>>> $ firefox
>>> [Parent 12800, Gecko_IOThread] WARNING: pipe error (42): Connection
>>> reset by peer: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc,
>>>
>>> line 353
>>> [Parent 12800, Gecko_IOThread] WARNING: pipe error (48): Connection
>>> reset by peer: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc,
>>>
>>> line 353
>>>
>>> ###!!! [Parent][MessageChannel] Error:
>>> (msgtype=0x170080,name=PBrowser::Msg_Destroy) Channel error: cannot
>>> send/recv
>>>
>>> [Child 13107, MediaPlayback #1] WARNING: Decoder=6d0f623115c0 Decode
>>> error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR k(0x806e0005) -
>>> RefPtr<mozilla::MozPromise<RefPtr<mozilla::MediaTrackDemuxer::SamplesHolder>,
>>>
>>> mozilla::MediaResult, true> >
>>> mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoGetSamples(int32_t): manager is
>>> detached.: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
>>>
>>> line 3429
>>> [Child 13107, MediaPlayback #1] WARNING: Decoder=6d0f623115c0 Decode
>>> error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) -
>>> RefPtr<mozilla::MozPromise<RefPtr<mozilla::MediaTrackDemuxer::SamplesHolder>,
>>>
>>> mozilla::MediaResult, true> >
>>> mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoGetSamples(int32_t): manager is
>>> detached.: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
>>>
>>> line 3429
>>> [Child 13107, MediaPlayback #1] WARNING: Decoder=6d0f623115c0 Decode
>>> error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) -
>>> RefPtr<mozilla::MozPromise<RefPtr<mozilla::MediaTrackDemuxer::SamplesHolder>,
>>>
>>> mozilla::MediaResult, true> >
>>> mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoGetSamples(int32_t): manager is
>>> detached.: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
>>>
>>> line 3429
>>> [Child 13107, MediaPlayback #4] WARNING: Decoder=6d0f623115c0 Decode
>>> error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) -
>>> RefPtr<mozilla::MozPromise<RefPtr<mozilla::MediaTrackDemuxer::SamplesHolder>,
>>>
>>> mozilla::MediaResult, true> >
>>> mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoGetSamples(int32_t): manager is
>>> detached.: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
>>>
>>> line 3429
>>> [Child 13107, MediaPlayback #2] WARNING: Decoder=6d0f623115c0 Decode
>>> error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) -
>>> RefPtr<mozilla::MozPromise<RefPtr<mozilla::MediaTrackDemuxer::SamplesHolder>,
>>>
>>> mozilla::MediaResult, true> >
>>> mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoGetSamples(int32_t): manager is
>>> detached.: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
>>>
>>> line 3429
>>> [Child 13107, MediaPlayback #4] WARNING: Decoder=6d0f4c0f86a0 Decode
>>> error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) -
>>> RefPtr<mozilla::MozPromise<RefPtr<mozilla::MediaTrackDemuxer::SamplesHolder>,
>>>
>>> mozilla::MediaResult, true> >
>>> mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoGetSamples(int32_t): manager is
>>> detached.: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
>>>
>>> line 3429
>>> [Child 13107, MediaPlayback #1] WARNING: Decoder=6d0f4c017980 Decode
>>> error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) -
>>> RefPtr<mozilla::MozPromise<RefPtr<mozilla::MediaTrackDemuxer::SamplesHolder>,
>>>
>>> mozilla::MediaResult, true> >
>>> mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoGetSamples(int32_t): manager is
>>> detached.: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
>>>
>>> line 3429
>>> [Child 13107, MediaPlayback #1] WARNING: Decoder=6d0f4c017980 Decode
>>> error: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005) -
>>> RefPtr<mozilla::MozPromise<RefPtr<mozilla::MediaTrackDemuxer::SamplesHolder>,
>>>
>>> mozilla::MediaResult, true> >
>>> mozilla::MediaSourceTrackDemuxer::DoGetSamples(int32_t): manager is
>>> detached.: file
>>> /build/firefox/src/mozilla-unified/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachine.cpp,
>>>
>>> line 3429
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Hubert Hauser.
>>>
>>> On 20/09/2018 18:31, Florijan Hamzic wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Maybe you can find something in the logs
>>>>
>>>> journalctl -qb /usr/bin/firefox
>>>>
>>>> Hubert Hauser via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org
>>>> <mailto:arch-general at archlinux.org>> schrieb am Do., 20. Sep. 2018,
>>>> 18:21:
>>>>
>>>>       Hello!
>>>>
>>>>       I have problem with randomly crashing Firefox 62.0 or single
>>>> tabs in
>>>>       this browser on 64-bit Arch Linux system. Running Firefox in
>>>> safe mode
>>>>       doesn't help. Resetting browser or removing folder ~/.mozilla
>>>> still
>>>>       doesn't help. Any ideas how to fix this issue?
>>>>
>>>>       --
>>>>
>>>>       Cheers,
>>>>       Hubert Hauser.