Firefox freezing Fedora

razer1234 · October 2, 2022, 11:19am

Ever since the FF update 103 i’m having troubles with freezes

Usually what happens is Firefox freezes and a few seconds later the whole system freezes

How to know what is causing the issue?

It is driving me crazy and i have to force shutdown my pc everytime

grumpey · October 2, 2022, 11:48am

Can you post the logs from when this is occuring?
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/viewing-logs/

Also if you run firefox from a command line do you see anything that looks like an issue?

razer1234 · October 2, 2022, 12:00pm

Updated to F37 to see if it fixes anything

Got this error starting FF

glxtest: VA-API test failed: process crashed. Please check your VA-API drivers

grumpey · October 2, 2022, 12:14pm

The VAAPI drivers may have been removed when you updated, mesa.
You may want to disable hardware decoding, You can disable it at about:config page setting media.hardware-video-decoding.enabled to false.

ref:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration

razer1234 · October 2, 2022, 12:15pm

Yeah i’ve read but i might install the new mesa driver from RPMfusion

Tried checking the logs, but it only shows boots from 06-28 to 07-03

I might have to wait until next freeze, it’s not going to take long

razer1234 · October 3, 2022, 12:16am

As expected, just crashed and system freezed AGAIN

Journalctl still not showing boots from this month

computersavvy · October 3, 2022, 12:43am

This really sounds like something that may have happened way back when the logs quit updating may have finally caused a crisis. If journald is not running then something is seriously wrong. Without journald then the logs do not get updated.

Have you done a sudo dnf --refresh distro-sync in an attempt to make sure everything is up to date? Or any other recovery attempt?

stransky · October 3, 2022, 6:11am

Hello, Firefox maintainer here. Please file a bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ . This particular error looks like pulse audio issue I saw before but I need more info.
Thanks.

razer1234 · October 3, 2022, 10:07am

Yes everything is up to date, also updated to F37 hoping it would fix the issue (it didn’t)

razer1234 · October 3, 2022, 10:25am

AFAIK i should be using pipewire

Here it is, not sure i posted it properly though

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2131684

mettacrawler · October 3, 2022, 10:39am

JICYMI
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Firefox_problems

razer1234 · October 3, 2022, 11:32pm

Hoping for a workaround i switched to Wayland, everything seems fine apart from Firefox

Dropdown menu flickers a lot, seems to be related to text scaling

Any idea on how to fix this?

EDIT:

augenauf · October 4, 2022, 9:40am

This is known:

and a fix is underway: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-c1ff6ec13b

razer1234 · October 4, 2022, 12:59pm

Thanks

I’ll open another thread and report back if i get any freeze on Wayland

razer1234 · October 7, 2022, 6:23pm

Happened again, noticed it from Spotify music not starting

https://pastebin.com/jNTTP0QD

razer1234 · October 8, 2022, 10:09am

Noticed these errors after checking va-api status

libva info: VA-API version 1.15.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_15
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
vaInitialize failed with error code -1 (unknown libva error),exit

razer1234 · October 8, 2022, 11:27am

Fixed by installing

nvidia-vaapi-driver

Will post again if it happens again

razer1234 · October 15, 2022, 10:28pm

Unfortunately it keeps happening

libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: VA-API version 1.15.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: VA-API version 1.15.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: VA-API version 1.15.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
[2022-10-15T22:28:00Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in “\0\0”
[2022-10-15T22:28:00Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in “\0\0”
[2022-10-15T22:28:00Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in “\0\0”
[2022-10-15T22:28:00Z ERROR mp4parse] Found 2 nul bytes in “\0\0”
libva info: VA-API version 1.15.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: VA-API version 1.15.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1
libva info: VA-API version 1.15.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_0
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/nvidia_drv_video.so init failed
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1

razer1234 · October 15, 2022, 10:33pm

This might be causing the issue, i’ll try and see what happens