1383116 - Running FF with OGL layers ends up locking the entire machine

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Graphics, defect, P3)

Description

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

With a Dell XPS 15 (model 9560), only using the intel IGP, whenever I run Firefox with the OpenGL accelerated layers, the system ends up locking up.

It's not consistent, but over the course of a day it will typically happen a 3-4 times.

Seems to be more likely to occur when you have a video playing and you're loading a new page.

When the hang occurs, the keyboard and trackpad becomes unresponsive and it requires a hard reboot.

I never get a lock when accelerated layers are disabled (default).

This is with Ubuntu 17.04 and kernel 4.10.14, though I had the same behaviour running Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 (With their respective default kernel)

Whatever FF is doing with it's OpenGL code, it's triggering a bug in the drivers.

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya]]

To add, I used Chromium for a day, and never got a lockup.

Comment 2

[Clemens Eisserer]

> Whatever FF is doing with it's OpenGL code
> it's triggering a bug in the drivers.

Considering how servere this issue is - shouldn't it be immediatly reported at the Mesa bugtracker at freedesktop.org?

Comment 3

[mirh]

So.. I gave a quick look to freedesktop's intel firefox-freezing issues

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102512
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102586
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103584
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104222
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104882

Possibly, one of the many ones might have been fixed just some day ago in latest git. 
Any chance for checking it out?

Comment 4

[Darkspirit]

(In reply to Jean-Yves Avenard [:jya] from comment #0)
I assume you're using WebRender by now and haven't seen this problem anymore?