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September 9th, 2021, 03:04 PM
Has anyone else started experiencing issues running Chromium-based apps in the last week or three? I wanted to see if this is widespread before I create a Launchpad bug report. I searched for an existing report there, but didn't see anything that looked similar.
The Symptoms: I first noticed the problem when I tried to launch teams-insiders (Microsoft Teams beta) for the first time in a week. It would not launch and I found the following in the dmesg output:
[ 653.714267] traps: Chrome_IOThread[13582] trap invalid opcode ip:55e77adb8934 sp:7fe4cd0cd4d0 error:0 in teams-insiders[55e7787c2000+5fbe000]
Some searches turned up older similar issues where Teams would not work for others until a reboot. So, I rebooted for the first time in 20 day.
Unfortunately, it didn't change the symptoms. In fact, I noticed Vivaldi (also chromium-based) would no longer start either.
I launched an electron-wrapped app I had created long ago myself via nativefier... and it also failed to start. It also leaves a Chrome_IOThread dmesg log:
[ 382.903339] traps: Chrome_IOThread[12705] trap int3 ip:561036813664 sp:7f097ebb3490 error:0 in 8BitWorkshop[561034242000+5f85000]
Oddly, Chrome, Vivaldi-Snapshot, and *even the Chromium web browser* all work fine. :\
Reinstalling teams-insiders made no difference.
I was wondering if it was another kernel 5.13 issue, so I installed the mainline 5.14.2 kernel... same issue. I also tried rebooting into 5.11.... same issue.
code-insiders also now appears to have the same problem as Teams:
[ 1060.228147] traps: Chrome_IOThread[14829] trap invalid opcode ip:55b09720c653 sp:7f8cb7003200 error:0 in code-insiders[55b094a65000+5ee2000]
All non-chromium apps appear to work fine - even Vulkan games (using nVidia 470.63.01 drivers). I completely removed/reinstalled the video drivers, but that's made no difference either.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Edit: I suspect this is related to hardware acceleration - and that the chromium based browsers I have that still work simply do not have it enabled. Perhaps a change in the newest nVidia drivers broke something?
Edit2: Err... scratch that... looks like Chrome, which works... has hardware acceleration enabled. :\
The Symptoms: I first noticed the problem when I tried to launch teams-insiders (Microsoft Teams beta) for the first time in a week. It would not launch and I found the following in the dmesg output:
[ 653.714267] traps: Chrome_IOThread[13582] trap invalid opcode ip:55e77adb8934 sp:7fe4cd0cd4d0 error:0 in teams-insiders[55e7787c2000+5fbe000]
Some searches turned up older similar issues where Teams would not work for others until a reboot. So, I rebooted for the first time in 20 day.
Unfortunately, it didn't change the symptoms. In fact, I noticed Vivaldi (also chromium-based) would no longer start either.
I launched an electron-wrapped app I had created long ago myself via nativefier... and it also failed to start. It also leaves a Chrome_IOThread dmesg log:
[ 382.903339] traps: Chrome_IOThread[12705] trap int3 ip:561036813664 sp:7f097ebb3490 error:0 in 8BitWorkshop[561034242000+5f85000]
Oddly, Chrome, Vivaldi-Snapshot, and *even the Chromium web browser* all work fine. :\
Reinstalling teams-insiders made no difference.
I was wondering if it was another kernel 5.13 issue, so I installed the mainline 5.14.2 kernel... same issue. I also tried rebooting into 5.11.... same issue.
code-insiders also now appears to have the same problem as Teams:
[ 1060.228147] traps: Chrome_IOThread[14829] trap invalid opcode ip:55b09720c653 sp:7f8cb7003200 error:0 in code-insiders[55b094a65000+5ee2000]
All non-chromium apps appear to work fine - even Vulkan games (using nVidia 470.63.01 drivers). I completely removed/reinstalled the video drivers, but that's made no difference either.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Edit: I suspect this is related to hardware acceleration - and that the chromium based browsers I have that still work simply do not have it enabled. Perhaps a change in the newest nVidia drivers broke something?
Edit2: Err... scratch that... looks like Chrome, which works... has hardware acceleration enabled. :\