Brave and Chromium unresponsive : possibly graphical issue

[aakropotkin]

Issue description

Both Brave and Chromium browsers will randomly become unresponsive for me. I suspect that it is a graphical failure because I get that classic "burn" effect when any other windows overlap it and are moved (OG windows users might know what I'm talking about here). I know that Brave and Chromium share large sections of a code-base so I'm unsurprised that the issue effects both.

Steps to reproduce

# /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
{
    # ....

  hardware.enableAllFirmware = true;

  services = {
    # X11 and WMs
    xserver = {
      enable = true;
      layout = us;
      exportConfiguration = true;
      videoDrivers = ["nouveau"];
      dpi = myDpi;
      xrandrHeads = [ 
        "HDMI-1" {
          output = "DP-3";
          monitorConfig = ''Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"'';
        }
        "DVI-D-1"
      ];
    };
  };

  boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [
    "xhci_pci"
    "ahci"
    "ohci_pci"
    "ehci_pci"
    "usb_storage"
    "sd_mod"
  ];
  boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-amd" ];
  boot.blacklistedKernelModules = [ "radeon" "amdgpu" ];

# ...

}

Technical details

λ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"                   
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 4.19.52, NixOS, 19.09pre183392.83ba5afcc96 (Loris)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.2.2`
 - channels(camus): `"home-manager, nextbookit, nixos-mio"`
 - channels(root): `"home-manager, nixos-19.09pre183832.20b993ef2c9, nixos-hardware, nixos-stable-18.09.2574.a7e559a5504"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

[gloaming]

Have you tried with Linux 5?

[aakropotkin]

No I hadn't even noticed that my kernel was so outdated until you pointed this out.

[markus1189]

I have the same problem...

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.1.10, NixOS, 19.09pre186460.c4fec1c6314 (Loris)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.2.2`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-19.09pre186460.c4fec1c6314"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

Unfortunately I also have no idea how to debug this

It not only happens with chromium but also chromium-based apps like spotify

[markus1189]

@alexameen just FYI: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/524205/help-chromium-display-frozen-but-the-app-keeps-working

I have not yet tried anything but that seems to relate to the problems we are experiencing

[markus1189]

@alexameen can you try if running chromium with LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 chromium from a terminal solves the problem for you?

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[gaurav-src]

I am having the same issue on Void Linux. Brave just stops responding. It works fine until Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf pops up on terminal.

[3203:3203:0603/031850.734667:ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(90)] glXGetFBConfigs failed.
[3203:3203:0603/031850.734827:ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(130)] Failed to get GLXConfig
[3203:3203:0603/031850.734868:ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(479)] CreateDummyWindow(gfx::GetXDisplay()) failed
[3203:3203:0603/031850.734907:ERROR:gl_initializer_x11.cc(148)] GLSurfaceGLX::InitializeOneOff failed.
[3203:3203:0603/031850.740884:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(159)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to open amdgpu (search paths /run/opengl-driver/lib/dri)
failed to load driver: amdgpu
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast (search paths /run/opengl-driver/lib/dri)
failed to load driver: kms_swrast
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /run/opengl-driver/lib/dri)
failed to load swrast driver
[3178:3178:0603/031850.942100:ERROR:browser_switcher_service.cc(238)] XXX Init()
[3178:3178:0603/031852.914456:ERROR:CONSOLE(0)] "Unchecked runtime.lastError: Cannot access contents of url "chrome://newtab/". Extension manifest must request permission to access this host.", source: chrome-extension://mnojpmjdmbbfmejpflffifhffcmidifd/_generated_background_page.html (0)
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 6: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 7: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 7: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 9: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/home/vitkrn/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 4: unknown element "its:rules"
Fontconfig warning: "/home/vitkrn/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 5: unknown element "its:translateRule"
Fontconfig error: "/home/vitkrn/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'selector'
Fontconfig error: "/home/vitkrn/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 5: invalid attribute 'translate'
Fontconfig error: "/home/vitkrn/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'version'
Fontconfig error: "/home/vitkrn/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf", line 6: invalid attribute 'xmlns:its'
Fontconfig error: Cannot load config file from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

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