834250 - crash in mozalloc_abort

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 834243

(Core Graveyard :: Widget: Android, defect)

Description

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

This bug was filed from the Socorro interface and is 
report bp-a22c95d0-f6bf-4a71-ae9e-001282130116 .
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See other crash reports with this signature at https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?product=FennecAndroid&version=FennecAndroid%3A21.0a1&query_search=signature&query_type=contains&query=LayerManagerOGL%3A%3AInitialize&reason_type=contains&date=01%2F24%2F2013%2015%3A38%3A51&range_value=2&range_unit=weeks&hang_type=any&process_type=any&do_query=1&admin=1&signature=mozalloc_abort%28char%20const*%29%20|%20NS_DebugBreak_P%20|%20mozilla%3A%3Alayers%3A%3ALayerManagerOGL%3A%3AInitialize%28nsRefPtr%3Cmozilla%3A%3Agl%3A%3AGLContext%3E%2C%20bool%29

The top of the crashing thread looks like this:

mozalloc_abort 	mozalloc_abort.cpp:30
NS_DebugBreak_P 	nsDebugImpl.cpp:422
mozilla::layers::LayerManagerOGL::Initialize 	LayerManagerOGL.cpp:498
mozilla::layers::LayerManagerOGL::Initialize 	LayerManagerOGL.cpp:60
mozilla::layers::CompositorParent::AllocPLayers 	CompositorParent.cpp:1150
mozilla::layers::PCompositorParent::OnMessageReceived 	PCompositorParent.cpp:591
mozilla::ipc::SyncChannel::OnDispatchMessage 	SyncChannel.cpp:145 

The crash is caused by failing to initialize a valid GL context. Looking at the logcat from the above crash report (which is the only one I found since bug 785597 landed and is on API 16+), I see this:

16:34:10.769 E GeckoConsole: Attempt to use JS function on a different thread calling nsIDirectoryServiceProvider.getFile. JS objects may not be shared across threads.
16:34:29.035 D GeckoLayerClient: Window-size changed to (720,1038)
16:34:29.105 I Gecko   : Logging GL tracing output to /data/data/org.mozilla.fennec/firefox.trace
16:34:29.105 I Gecko   : Attempting load of /data/local/egltrace.so
16:34:29.105 I Gecko   : Attempting load of libEGL.so
16:34:29.105 W System.err: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Make sure the SurfaceView or associated SurfaceHolder has a valid Surface
16:34:29.105 W System.err:  at com.google.android.gles_jni.EGLImpl._eglCreateWindowSurface(Native Method)
16:34:29.105 W System.err:  at com.google.android.gles_jni.EGLImpl.eglCreateWindowSurface(EGLImpl.java:90)
16:34:29.105 W System.err:  at org.mozilla.gecko.gfx.GLController.provideEGLSurface(GLController.java:145)
16:34:29.105 W System.err:  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method)
16:34:29.105 W System.err:  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.run(Native Method)
16:34:29.105 I Gecko   : ###!!! ABORT: We need a context on Android: file ../../../gfx/layers/opengl/LayerManagerOGL.cpp, line 498
16:34:29.105 E Gecko   : mozalloc_abort: ###!!! ABORT: We need a context on Android: file ../../../gfx/layers/opengl/LayerManagerOGL.cpp, line 498

So the root cause is that _eglCreateWindowSurface is failing. Not sure why that is happening though.