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Firefox password sync causes crash? [Ubuntu Focal]

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Brand new installation of Ubuntu Focal (on an ARM Chromebook, using Crouton). Installed Firefox (104), runs fine but as soon as I sign into my Firefox account it immediately crashes. Continues to crash if I start in safe-mode, so I don't think the problem is an extension. After some online research and some trial and error I seem to have determined that I can sign into my Firefox account as long as password sync is disabled. But as soon as I enable password sync, Firefox immediately crashes.

Error message in terminal is always about GPU, which maybe isn't properly set up or maybe Firefox has a problem with it, but if I use the software renderer it doesn't cause a problem (MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 firefox). Hard to imagine that this has anything to do with crashing when syncing passwords?

Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI (t=2.77546) [GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI (t=2.77546) |[1][GFX1-]: glxtest: process failed (received signal 11) (t=2.77573) [GFX1-]: glxtest: process failed (received signal 11) Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.sys.mjs Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0][GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=3.29811) Exiting due to channel error. Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Brand new installation of Ubuntu Focal (on an ARM Chromebook, using Crouton). Installed Firefox (104), runs fine but as soon as I sign into my Firefox account it immediately crashes. Continues to crash if I start in safe-mode, so I don't think the problem is an extension. After some online research and some trial and error I seem to have determined that I can sign into my Firefox account as long as password sync is disabled. But as soon as I enable password sync, Firefox immediately crashes. Error message in terminal is always about GPU, which maybe isn't properly set up or maybe Firefox has a problem with it, but if I use the software renderer it doesn't cause a problem (MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 firefox). Hard to imagine that this has anything to do with crashing when syncing passwords? Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI (t=2.77546) [GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI (t=2.77546) |[1][GFX1-]: glxtest: process failed (received signal 11) (t=2.77573) [GFX1-]: glxtest: process failed (received signal 11) Missing chrome or resource URL: resource://gre/modules/UpdateListener.sys.mjs Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Exiting due to channel error. Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[C0][GFX1-]: Receive IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=3.29811) Exiting due to channel error. Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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About:crashes doesn’t exist, gives an error. I guess this means that the version that I am using (Ubuntu) was compiled without crash reporting?

I've switched from Ubuntu Focal to Debian Bullseye, and I'm now using debian's firefox-esr which I know from previous testing has the same issue. Here are the last five crash reports from firefox-esr:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-a2d02bac-4250-46c8-96bf-9e4fd0220830 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-f0c8a0fa-9908-462c-8512-ca1800220830 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-bb805793-f592-48e9-8c76-05fde0220830 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-d8e0bb6f-2fd3-44c1-aa02-19d2d0220830 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-49d66377-d6da-48a4-91fb-ec0bf0220830

Each of these is an immediate crash as soon as Firefox starts up and attempts to sync. Now that I have de-selected password sync, I am able to use FIrefox normally.

Modified by mc510

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Wayland.... Can you try in X11 to see if you have the same issue?

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Looks to me like I'm already using X11 rather than Wayland about:support screenshot attached

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After searching the error Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI looks like a BUG.

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jonzn4SUSE said

After searching the error Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: No GPUs detected via PCI looks like a BUG.

Meaning this is already on radar of Firefox developers? Or I should open a bug report?

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Why not open one and let them advise on the next step.