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chromium-browser package

chromium freezes gnome if hardware acceleration is activated in browser setttings (U20.04) Intel HD-Grafik 4400

Bug #2039701 reported by Affenputtel
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 20.04 have to deaktivate hardware acceleration in browser stetting in order to prevent delay and crash of chromium broswer and chrome browser. Was able to reboot with strg+alt+F(x) sudo reboot

found line /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed in syslog when crash happened. Let me to this via gürgelschnüffel:

vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.7.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_7
libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_6
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.7 (libva 2.6.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Haswell - 2.4.0
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264MultiviewHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointEncSlice
      VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
      VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
      VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD

Affenputtel (hoskdlsk2)
summary: chromium freezes gnome if hardware acceleration is activated in browser
- setttings
+ setttingsv (20.04)
Affenputtel (hoskdlsk2)
summary: chromium freezes gnome if hardware acceleration is activated in browser
- setttingsv (20.04)
+ setttingsv (20.04) i3-4170 i apu
Affenputtel (hoskdlsk2)
summary: chromium freezes gnome if hardware acceleration is activated in browser
- setttingsv (20.04) i3-4170 i apu
+ setttingsv (20.04) Intel HD-Grafik 4400
summary: chromium freezes gnome if hardware acceleration is activated in browser
- setttingsv (20.04) Intel HD-Grafik 4400
+ setttings (U20.04) Intel HD-Grafik 4400
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Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio) wrote :

> Was able to reboot with strg+alt+F(x) sudo reboot

Once this happens again, can you please collect dmesg and journalctl (some hundreds of lines are probably enough) before rebooting?

Instead of launching Chromium normally, use

  chromium --enable-logging=stderr > chromium.log 2>&1

Also:

  snap connections chromium
  snap info chromium

> via gürgelschnüffel:
>
> vainfo

First the most important question: What is Gürgelschnüffel?

Now, running vainfo in your host system doesn't help much, because Chromium is supposed to use the driver provided by the (not ideally named, I know) Gnome snap, /snap/gnome-42-2204/current/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so.

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Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio) wrote :

Another possible hint to collect: Does this happen both in X11 and Wayland?

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Affenputtel (hoskdlsk2) wrote (last edit ):

If hardware acceleration is turned on chromium crashes almost every time i start it, i will never do it again. If its turned off then it is ok. But it crashed anyway when the indicator applet was showing incoming mail last time. Yes the legendary Gürgelschnüffel is german cacography for googlesearch.

chromiumlog is crash with hardware acceleration on

dmesg 1 is with hardware acceleration on

dmesg 2 maybe contains something with crash before from hardware acceleration off

Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
X11
gnome version 3.36.8

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