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[nouveau] Programs crash with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data: Assertion `kref' failed.

Bug #1497593 reported by dinamic on 2015-09-19

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	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Mesa	New	Unknown	auto-gitlab.freedesktop.org-mesa-mesa-- #1080
libdrm (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned
mesa (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Programs crash with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data: Assertion `kref' failed. Because nouveau is not thread safe(?)

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dinamic (dinamic6661) wrote on 2015-09-19:

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2015-09-23:

StacktraceTop:
__assert_fail_base (fmt=0x7f1aba6fd028 "%s%s%s:%u: %s%sAssertion `%s' failed.\n%n", assertion=assertion@entry=0x7f1aa469f879 "kref", file=file@entry=0x7f1aa469f85a "../../nouveau/pushbuf.c", line=line@entry=726, function=function@entry=0x7f1aa469f8a0 <__PRETTY_FUNCTION__.6304> "nouveau_pushbuf_data") at assert.c:92
__GI___assert_fail (assertion=assertion@entry=0x7f1aa469f879 "kref", file=file@entry=0x7f1aa469f85a "../../nouveau/pushbuf.c", line=line@entry=726, function=function@entry=0x7f1aa469f8a0 <__PRETTY_FUNCTION__.6304> "nouveau_pushbuf_data") at assert.c:101
nouveau_pushbuf_data (push=push@entry=0x5598e59d0940, bo=0x5598e59d1050, offset=122520, length=1292) at ../../nouveau/pushbuf.c:726
nouveau_pushbuf_data (push=push@entry=0x5598e59d0940, bo=bo@entry=0x0, offset=offset@entry=0, length=length@entry=0) at ../../nouveau/pushbuf.c:718
pushbuf_submit (push=push@entry=0x5598e59d0940, chan=<optimized out>, chan=<optimized out>) at ../../nouveau/pushbuf.c:329

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Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-amd64-retrace

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) on 2016-06-06

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added: nouveau

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2016-10-04: Re: webbrowser-app crashed with SIGABRT in __assert_fail_base()

This might be related to bug 1553328. It seems plausible that webbrowser-app might be trying to do multi-threaded rendering, which we know will crash on nouveau.

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dinamic (dinamic6661) wrote on 2016-10-04:

and it's not only the web browser it's all the web apps and anything related.

Olivier Tilloy (osomon) on 2017-01-27

summary:	- webbrowser-app crashed with SIGABRT in __assert_fail_base() + webbrowser-app crashed with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data()
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
tags:	added: crash

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2021-06-10

summary:	- webbrowser-app crashed with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data() + webbrowser-app crashed with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data: Assertion + `kref' failed.
summary:	- webbrowser-app crashed with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data: Assertion - `kref' failed. + Programs crash with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data: Assertion `kref' + failed.
tags:	added: bionic removed: wily
tags:	added: focal
tags:	added: hirsute
affects:	webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) → libdrm (Ubuntu)

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2021-06-10:

Related upstream bugs:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/1087
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/1080

When I last hit this problem myself it was due to nouveau not being thread safe (last seen in Mir/Unity8 bug 1553328).

summary:

- Programs crash with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data: Assertion `kref'
- failed.
+ [nouveau] Programs crash with SIGABRT in nouveau_pushbuf_data: Assertion
+ `kref' failed.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2021-06-10

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2021-06-22

description:

updated

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2022-03-30

tags:

added: jammy
removed: hirsute

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2022-05-20

Changed in mesa:
status:	Unknown → New

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2023-07-25

tags:

added: lunar

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