FirefoxNightly segfaulting

britthouser · October 28, 2019, 2:14pm

Just in the past couple days, FirefoxNightly won’t launch for me. I see the beginning of an outline of a window pop up, and then it just segfaults. Anyone else having issues with it? If I run it from command line I get:

F: Running 'bwrap --args 37 firefox'
Attempting load of libEGL.so
Exiting due to channel error.
/app/bin/firefox: line 8:     3 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) firefox-bin $*

Doesn’t matter if I try safemode or anything else. I tried a brand new user on my system well to see if maybe it was my settings/extensions, but got the same behavior. This is the version I’m running:

[bhouser@britomic ~]$ flatpak remote-info --log Firefox org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly

Firefox Nightly - Firefox Nightly Web Browser

        ID: org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
       Ref: app/org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly/x86_64/master
      Arch: x86_64
    Branch: master
   License: MPL-2.0
Collection: 
  Download: 120.0 MB
 Installed: 378.6 MB
   Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.28

       Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/3.28
    Commit: bba8eac2a5abb5f29ef9b9ad4d125ff88665a18fb37fc9053698f4724d70ea20
    Parent: 0e831b2025958b23db73a497496761da9f90c38371f997a01e702eb49506d797
   Subject: Build of org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
      Date: 2019-10-28 10:13:29 +0000
   History: 

    Commit: 0e831b2025958b23db73a497496761da9f90c38371f997a01e702eb49506d797
   Subject: Build of org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
      Date: 2019-10-26 09:01:06 +0000

garrett · October 28, 2019, 5:04pm

The Firefox Nightly flatpak was (finally) recently updated
I’m also having a problem running the Firefox Nightly flatpak on Silverblue (but it’s “due to a channel error” related to “ipc_channel_posix”)
The official Firefox Nightly from Mozilla’s upstream tarball runs on Silverblue 31 here
The Firefox Nightly flatpak doesn’t work on non-Silverblue Fedora 31 either (where I am seeing the libEGL message and then also the connection reset by peer “ipc_channel_posix” issue too).

So… this seems like an issue specific to the Firefox Nightly Flatpak.

Here’s my error log when running flatpak run org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly:

1572281618542	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: mozillaAddons
1572281618542	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: telemetry
1572281618542	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: resource://pdf.js/
1572281618542	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: about:reader*
[Child 54, Chrome_ChildThread] WARNING: pipe error (48): Connection reset by peer: file /run/build/firefox/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 358
[Child 54, Chrome_ChildThread] WARNING: pipe error (47): Connection reset by peer: file /run/build/firefox/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 358
[Child 54, Chrome_ChildThread] WARNING: pipe error (45): Connection reset by peer: file /run/build/firefox/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 358
[Child 54, Chrome_ChildThread] WARNING: pipe error (44): Connection reset by peer: file /run/build/firefox/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 358
[Child 54, Chrome_ChildThread] WARNING: pipe error (43): Connection reset by peer: file /run/build/firefox/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 358
[Child 54, Chrome_ChildThread] WARNING: pipe error (3): Connection reset by peer: file /run/build/firefox/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 358
Exiting due to channel error.
/app/bin/firefox: line 8:     3 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) firefox-bin $*

Unsurprisingly, flatpak remote-info shows the same exact output on my system.

britthouser · October 28, 2019, 8:24pm

Well, this is where the power of flatpaks come in right? We can easly revert to the previous commit and run that one. Am I doing this right?

[bhouser@britomic ~]$ flatpak remote-info --log Firefox org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly 

Firefox Nightly - Firefox Nightly Web Browser

        ID: org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
       Ref: app/org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly/x86_64/master
      Arch: x86_64
    Branch: master
   License: MPL-2.0
Collection: 
  Download: 120.0 MB
 Installed: 378.6 MB
   Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.28

       Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/3.28
    Commit: bba8eac2a5abb5f29ef9b9ad4d125ff88665a18fb37fc9053698f4724d70ea20
    Parent: 0e831b2025958b23db73a497496761da9f90c38371f997a01e702eb49506d797
   Subject: Build of org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
      Date: 2019-10-28 10:13:29 +0000
   History: 

    Commit: 0e831b2025958b23db73a497496761da9f90c38371f997a01e702eb49506d797
   Subject: Build of org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
      Date: 2019-10-26 09:01:06 +0000

[bhouser@britomic ~]$ flatpak update --commit=0e831b2025958b23db73a497496761da9f90c38371f997a01e702eb49506d797 org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
Looking for updates…
Nothing to do.
[bhouser@britomic ~]$

toMeloos · November 4, 2019, 10:30am

Encountering the same problem after Nightly got updated:

[ com.gexperts.Tilix ~]$ flatpak run org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly

(firefox:3): Gdk-CRITICAL *: 11:21:42.036: gdk_screen_get_monitor_scale_factor: assertion ‘GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)’ failed
[Socket 20, Chrome_ChildThread] WARNING: pipe error (3): Connection reset by peer: file /run/build/firefox/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 358
/app/bin/firefox: line 8: 3 Segmentation fault (core dumped) firefox-bin $

So I upgraded to FSB31 but that didn’t fix the issue. Also unable to execute the workaround suggested by @britthouser since the command doesn’s seem to work: :

[📦 com.gexperts.Tilix ~]$ flatpak remote-info --log Firefox org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
error: Remote "Firefox" not found

With my source being:

[📦 com.gexperts.Tilix ~]$ flatpak remote-list
Name                    Options
fedora                  system,oci
flathub                 system
org.mozilla.FirefoxRepo system

[📦 com.gexperts.Tilix ~]$ flatpak remote-ls org.mozilla.FirefoxRepo
Name                               Application ID                         Version          Branch
Firefox Developer Edition          org.mozilla.FirefoxDevEdition                           master
Firefox Nightly                    org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly                              master

What would be the right command to downgrade Nightly?

browseria · November 6, 2019, 2:41am

On Fedora 29:
(firefox:3): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:33:29.272: cannot open display:

flatpak remote-ls firefoxnightly-origin  
Name                   Application ID                    Version        Branch
Firefox Nightly        org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly                       master

flatpak remote-info firefoxnightly-origin org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly

Firefox Nightly - Firefox Nightly Web Browser

        ID: org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
       Ref: app/org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly/x86_64/master
      Arch: x86_64
    Branch: master
   License: MPL-2.0
Collection: 
  Download: 120.7 MB
 Installed: 380.4 MB
   Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.28

       Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/3.28
    Commit: aac5de1ed4b8bba29cf958c2ebb2613f1dc3468dd97aac5e459b2e1d91e207c2
    Parent: f69d1752befc5a6e5524583f2d384e2aada8d937d3c0bc5b5e5ee5bbed7a6171
   Subject: Build of org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
      Date: 2019-11-05 10:04:49 +0000

browseria · November 6, 2019, 2:18pm

On Fedora 31:

flatpak run org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
1573049529669	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: mozillaAddons
1573049529669	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: telemetry
1573049529669	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: resource://pdf.js/
1573049529669	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: about:reader*
/app/bin/firefox: line 8:     3 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) firefox-bin $*

flatpak remote-info firefoxnightly-origin org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly

Firefox Nightly - Firefox Nightly Web Browser

        ID: org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
       Ref: app/org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly/x86_64/master
      Arch: x86_64
    Branch: master
   License: MPL-2.0
Collection: 
  Download: 120.7 MB
 Installed: 380.4 MB
   Runtime: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.28

       Sdk: org.gnome.Sdk/x86_64/3.28
    Commit: 39580610ada1bda05832ee1ad3a3285ab29ab31a87e37af6090e05ad39824290
    Parent: aac5de1ed4b8bba29cf958c2ebb2613f1dc3468dd97aac5e459b2e1d91e207c2
   Subject: Build of org.mozilla.FirefoxNightly
      Date: 2019-11-06 10:03:07 +0000

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