1084120 - Firefox crashes on some websites (intel_do_flush_locked failed: Input/output error)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.2.0
Build ID: 20141015034125

Steps to reproduce:

Sometimes it crashes when I visit specific websites.

This issue could be associated with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756337 but it is a bit different. The other bug report says that it crashes periodically, but in my case in only crashes if I visit some websites.

One of such websites:
http://veillance.me/blog/2013/3/3/35-years-of-living-with-ar-augmediated-reality-glass

Linux Margo 3.16-2-486 #1 Debian 3.16.3-2 (2014-09-20) i686 GNU/Linux
Mozilla Iceweasel 31.2.0

Comment 1

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

The only thing I see in the console is:
intel_do_flush_locked failed: Input/output error

Also, it does not happen immediately. I have to wait about 10 seconds when I open such pages before it crashes.

Comment 2

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

And yes, same thing in -safe-mode

Comment 3

[Loic]

Are your Xorg Intel drivers up-to-date?

Can you provide a stacktrace?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_for_a_bug_report

Comment 4

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

I am using the drivers which came with linux (no non-free drivers installed).

Unfortunately, I cannot get a stacktrace. I have downloaded Firefox from the official website like it was suggested in the guide you linked, but still it does not generate a crash report. But at least it means that the same bug happens in 33 as well!

Then I went back to iceweasel, I installed iceweasel-dbg package and tried connecting to the process with gdb (like suggested in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#Crashes), still no luck. Either I am doing something completely wrong or what happens with iceweasel is not a crash. The the only thing I see in gdb is:
[Inferior 1 (process 29010) exited with code 01]
and 'bt full' says "No stack".

Yesterday I have encountered another 'crashy' website:
http://aquila-dsp.org/

Comment 5

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

It does not crash if I set javascript.enabled to false in about:config

Comment 6

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

Indeed, if I remove this from aquila-dsp home page:
<script src="site_media/js/libs/modernizr-2.5.3.min.js"></script>
It starts working!

I can't get the other website to work on my pc locally, but it seems like there is some javascript hell going on as well.

Comment 7

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

What else can I do?

Comment 8

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

Attachment: iceweasel_crasher (pipe a long list of websites into it to get the ones which crash your browser)

Comment 9

[Alex-Daniel Jakimenko]

Hello! So I have been suffering from this problem for quite some time, so I decided that I can at least make a list of websites that cause the crash. I have wrote a simple hacky bash script that just runs iceweasel with different websites, and if the iceweasel process disappears, it will find out which website did that and log it into a file. The idea was that I will pipe a huge list of websites into it and let it run for several hours...

Well, but guess what! The problem is gone. I don't know why! Yesterday I ran dist-upgrade, so it seems like this problem was fixed somewhere (linux kernel, I guess?). I have attached this script anyway, just in case somebody needs it.

I am marking this problem as resolved. Lets hope that it does not come back :)