[arch-general] chromium, or libva, or something, makes xorg dump core

[u34 at net9.ga]

maderios via arch-general <arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 7/7/21 8:15 PM, u34--- via arch-general wrote:
> > I am only seeing this with chromium. Perhaps becuase, in general, I am
> > only using a small set of applications.
> >
> > Chromium was started by
> >
> >      $chromium |& > chromiumFailure
> >
> > AT some point after the chromium window is initially seen, X is getting
> > killed, core is dumped.
> >
> > The machine is a desktop.
> > linux is       5.12.14-arch1-1
> > xorg server is 1.20.11-1
> > libva is       2.12.0-1
> > chromium is    91.0.4472.114-1
> Hi
> 5.12.14-arch1-1 is out of date. Try testing linux 5.12.15.arch1-1

I decided to start with iHD_drv_video.so.
The file for iHD_drv_video.so exists. It is recognised as an ELF shared 
object by the file utility. It is owned by the intel-media-driver 21.2.1-1 
package. Pacman -Qkk sttaes intel-media-driver is OK. Here, according to 
pacman, it is only required by inetl-media-sdk. I removed

    # pacman -Rssc intel-media-sdk intel-media-driver intel-gmmlib

intel-gmmlib description mentions memory management. 
For now I haven't removed anything else.  

It didn't help. xserver still crushed, seemingly because of chromium.

Now I noticed that if I request chromium to start in another desktop, desktop 
in the window manager sense, than the crash is delayed until I actally 
swithcing to the specific desktop chromium is supposed to run in. And even 
then, the chromium window can be seen for a sortwhile before the crash. 
Is it obvoius because the xserver causes the segmentation violation?
So I start requested chromium to run in another desktop, and killed it, 
ctrl-C, after I got the error messages. This prevents the xserver from 
crashing. Like before, with 

    $ chromium |& > chromiumFailure

I got:

[1573:1573:0708/091915.153379:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[1545:1644:0708/091915.263882:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(622)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[1545:1644:0708/091915.264108:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(622)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.GetDisplayDevice: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[1545:1644:0708/091915.264305:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(622)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.EnumerateDevices: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[1573:1573:0708/091915.504795:ERROR:shared_context_state.cc(73)] Skia shader compilation error
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Errors:

[1573:1573:0708/091915.647497:ERROR:shared_context_state.cc(73)] Skia shader compilation error
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Errors:

[1573:1573:0708/091916.804824:ERROR:shared_context_state.cc(73)] Skia shader compilation error
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Errors:


I will try the suggestions that were pointed out by this tread, and reoprt.

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u34