Bug 1676331 - [Wayland] crashes not listed in coredumpctl or abrt-cli list, only Mozilla reporter
Summary: [Wayland] crashes not listed in coredumpctl or abrt-cli list, only Mozilla re...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ffwayland
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Reported: 2019-02-12 02:16 UTC by Chris Murphy
Modified: 2019-02-28 12:01 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-02-28 11:50:12 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Chris Murphy 2019-02-12 02:16:17 UTC
Description of problem:

I've got a 100% crash reproducer if I paste in about 100 lines and then place cursor either at the top or bottom, then shift click to highlight a large (50+line) portion. This is new in FF65. But when this crashes, there's no coredumpctl listing, or abrt-cli list listing. The crash is only reported by the Firefox/Mozilla crash reporter, and I have no feedback from that reporter where it's filing the bug upstream.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-65.0-4.fc29.x86_64


How reproducible:
At least for this crash, always. I haven't had any other crashers yet.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Crash firefox
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Actual results:

No coredumpctl or abrt-cli listing, no upstream bug listing.

Expected results:

I expect to get a bug ID so I can track the bug, make sure I've supplied enough information so it can get fixed. But the existing behavior permits no reporting that can be tracked.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2019-02-12 23:00:19 UTC
For what it's worth, this crash is 100% reproducing only with "Firefox on Wayland" if I launch the "Firefox" application, I never get this crash. But again I can't really report any details because, no crash logs locally, just the mozilla crash reporter comes up.

Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2019-02-19 10:14:32 UTC
Can you please create and attach a backtrace according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Debugging_guidelines_for_Mozilla_products ? The Abrt is not very useful for us anyway as we generally need more precise ones. Thanks!

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2019-02-19 19:38:34 UTC
(In reply to Martin Stransky from comment #2)
> Can you please create and attach a backtrace according to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Debugging_guidelines_for_Mozilla_products ?

After reproducing the crash and typing 'thread apply all bt full' the system becomes unresponsive for 30 minutes, fans running at maximum. This is a laptop with 8GB RAM, and 4GB swap, and gdb uses all the RAM and 1/2 the swap. The crash_bt file remains 0 bytes for the entire duration. So I killed it. This isn't a helpful way to debug firefox problems. If there's something wrong with abrt and/or the retrace server, it needs to be fixed. If I knew in advance this was going to take an hour of gdb processing and not melt my laptop in the process, I might consider it but there's no progress so after 1/2 an hour I killed it.

Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2019-02-28 11:50:12 UTC
Thanks. I enabled the ABRT for Fedora 30 to catch Wayland and other crashes on Fedora 30. The package is not ready yet, it's in firefox-65.0.

Comment 6 Martin Stransky 2019-02-28 12:01:16 UTC
Actually I enabled it for Fedora 29. Builds are there - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=33102407


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