1298692 - Crash in mozalloc_abort | abort | vmwgfx_dri.so@0x63b99e , start up crash on Ubuntu16.04 64bit VM

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Graphics, defect, P3)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

This bug was filed from the Socorro interface and is 
report bp-63537725-dc99-461a-ae5e-8fd6d2160828.
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Steps To Reproduce:
1. VMware Workstation 12 Player
   Host OS: Windows10 64bit
   Guest OS: Ubuntu16.04 64bit LTS
2. Start Nightly

Actual Results:
Instant crash


Regression window:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=c807d56a4f2175493cb865ff1a3968f1a978b44e&tochange=32fd2e8a3be820c0a8c9d2210e6cfae990a561d8

Regressed by: Bug 594876

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

FYI, Nightly51.0a1 works properly on Ubuntu16.04 32bit LTS.

So, It seems to affect only Ubuntu16.04 64bit LTS.

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

How I can disable OpenGL?
If not, please backed out the offending Bug 594876 because Nightly51 crashes under VM.

Comment 3

[Andrew Comminos [:acomminos]]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #2)
> How I can disable OpenGL?

You can set the environment variable MOZ_ACCELERATED to 0.

> If not, please backed out the offending Bug 594876 because Nightly51 crashes
> under VM.

It's more likely that we'll just blacklist away vmwgfx. I'll look into this some more.

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

Thanks. Nightly51 works as expected when the environment is defined.

Comment 5

[Andrew Comminos [:acomminos]]

Do you mind seeing if setting the environment variable MOZ_DISABLE_CONTEXT_SHARING_GLX to 1 resolves your issue? While I have yet to get VMWare player patched for my kernel version, many of the stacks indicate that the issue could be occurring when attempting to claim the shared GL context.

Comment 6

[Alice0775 White]

(In reply to Andrew Comminos [:acomminos] from comment #5)
> Do you mind seeing if setting the environment variable
> MOZ_DISABLE_CONTEXT_SHARING_GLX to 1 resolves your issue? 

Setting MOZ_DISABLE_CONTEXT_SHARING_GLX=1 also fixes the crash.

Comment 7

[Gerry Chang [:gchang]]

Un-track for 51 as the volume of crash number is very low.

Comment 8

[Gerry Chang [:gchang]]

Hi :acomminos,
Do you have any updates per comment #6?

Comment 9

[Andrew Comminos [:acomminos]]

Not yet, sorry.

Leaving the needinfo flagged as I hope to get VMWare player set up soon to find out whether GLX context sharing is buggy on vmwgfx, or if our paths for it are triggering another issue.

FWIW, this crash only affects Nightly by default (we don't enable GL composition on Linux on other channels yet).

Comment 10

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Bulk move of gfx-noted bugs without priority to P3 for tracking.

Comment 11

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Bug 1288491 should probably be duped against this one, since it seems to have more information.

Comment 13

[mirh]

Does it still happen?

Comment 14

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing because no crash reported since 12 weeks.

Comment 15

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing because no crash reported since 12 weeks.