[manjaro-dev] Fwd: manjaro troubled with firefox & vlc

[Philip Müller]

Does somebody else has the similar issue with firefox and Intel gfx?
@domenico: did you tried a different browser yet?

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Betreff: manjaro troubled with firefox & vlc
Datum: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:12:07 +0200
Von: domcecaro at tiscali.it
An: support at manjaro.org



hi

after searching in vain online solutions (wiki / forum) i hope
that you can help me directly getting back to the full functionality


one of my manjaro systems (kernel 3.18.20-1 on old laptop: acer
travelmate 252 - intel pentium 4 - 512 MB)

which was working really
fine until the most recent update

thereafter i had troubles with
firefox: now opens with a complete blank grayed empty page, no menus no
bars except the title bar; one can verify "through the fog" that the url
bar and links are there, because hovering the mouse (actually touchpad)
cursor regularly changes its shape...but the window remains point blank!


well i guess there is some sort of rendering issue or even gpu (intel
gm855) incompatibility i'm afraid

anyway i unsuccessfully tried to
reinstall / downgrade several times

then here's the output from bash
terminal reinstalling and launching with report:

$ sudo pacman -S
firefox
risoluzione delle dipendenze in corso...
ricerca dei pacchetti
in conflitto in corso...

Pacchetti (1) firefox-40.0.2-1

Dimensione
totale dei pacchetti da scaricare: 42,06 MiB
Dimensione totale dei
pacchetti da installare: 92,26 MiB

:: Vuoi procedere con
l'installazione? [S/n] s
:: Download dei pacchetti in corso...

firefox-40.0.2-1-i686 42,1 MiB 725K/s 00:59 [######################]
100%
(1/1) verifica delle chiavi presenti nel porta...
[######################] 100%
(1/1) verifica dell'integrità dei
pacchetti [######################] 100%
(1/1) caricamento dei file dei
pacchetti [######################] 100%
(1/1) controllo dei conflitti in
corso [######################] 100%
(1/1) controllo dello spazio
disponibile sul d... [######################] 100%
(1/1) installazione
in corso di firefox [######################] 100%
Dipendenze opzionali
di firefox
 networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi
networks [installato]
 gst-plugins-good: h.264 video [installato]

gst-libav: h.264 video [installato]
 upower: Battery API [installato]


$ firefox -vv

(process:2172): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config:
assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
stackwalker.cc:125: INFO: Couldn't load symbols for:
linux-gate.so.1|
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xf0792f7c
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: stackwalker.cc:125: INFO:
Couldn't load symbols for:
/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0|D4F1158EDFE30E6243D4080F7EE5E8F50
2015-08-22
22:37:57: stackwalker.cc:125: INFO: Couldn't load symbols for:
/usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so|D11E5A1399CB5C2AD75ACBF4E08127C60
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0x9b735e48
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xb7021580
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0xf
2015-08-22 22:37:57: stackwalker.cc:125: INFO:
Couldn't load symbols for:
/usr/lib/libnspr4.so|D872114A7391D998688936584D476C3C0
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0xa2bb5bc0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xc
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xbf8dd474
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x2950d300
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0xbf8dd478
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0x9b718f6c
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xbf8dd570
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0xf0792f7c
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0xb7100044
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x5a
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0xbf8dd448
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x2950d300
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0xbf8dd448
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0xbf8dd570
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0x9b735e48
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xffffffff
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x5785f
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x9b735e48
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x3d
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0x10005
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module
at 0x3f
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module
at 0xbf8dd45c
2015-08-22 22:37:57: stackwalker.cc:125: INFO: Couldn't
load symbols for:
/usr/lib/libc.so.6|24D49362B9127BA87233BCB5F5CBF4490
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x1
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0xbf8dd494
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xbf8dd4f8
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x1
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0xbf8dd494
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x5f
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x9b7bf000
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x682
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0xb229b7c
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module
at 0x2950d300
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x9b770970
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x9b718f00
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0xffffffff
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x40
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0x9b7bf004
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xb7100044
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x2950d300
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x9b718f6c
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0xbf8dd554
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x10
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x2f
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x9b718f6c
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x1
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0xf0792f7c
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x183
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x9b735e77
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0xe
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x30
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0x9b718f6c
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x9b7bfe08
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0xb70e1e88
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x2e
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x1
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0xa8e76a00
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0x9bdbcdec
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0x1a6ba89
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO:
No module at 0xb70e1e88
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x5
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x2950d300
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x0
2015-08-22 22:37:57:
basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x9bdbcdec
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at 0x1
2015-08-22
22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No module at
0x9b718f6c
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88: INFO: No
module at 0xf0792f7c
2015-08-22 22:37:57: basic_code_modules.cc:88:
INFO: No module at 0x183
Vector smash protection is enabled.

(closed
the empty firefox window)

now i had also (maybe since last may ) a
crashing vlc as soon as it is launched

due to segfault at install time
and subsequently during execution

now i've found some plugins issues
so i reinstalled from scratch:

$ sudo pacman -S vlc
risoluzione delle
dipendenze in corso...
ricerca dei pacchetti in conflitto in
corso...

Pacchetti (10) libdvbpsi-1:1.3.0-1 libebml-1.3.1-1
libkate-0.4.1-5
 libmatroska-1.4.2-1 libtar-1.2.20-2 libtiger-0.3.4-4

libupnp-1.6.19-1 lua-5.3.1-1 zvbi-0.2.35-1 vlc-2.2.1-6

Dimensione
totale dei pacchetti da scaricare: 10,79 MiB
Dimensione totale dei
pacchetti da installare: 54,27 MiB

:: Vuoi procedere con
l'installazione? [S/n] s
:: Download dei pacchetti in corso...

libdvbpsi-1:1.3.0-1... 87,4 KiB 320K/s 00:00 [######################]
100%
 libkate-0.4.1-5-i686 274,0 KiB 353K/s 00:01
[######################] 100%
 libtiger-0.3.4-4-i686 22,3 KiB 421K/s
00:00 [######################] 100%
 lua-5.3.1-1-i686 233,2 KiB 409K/s
00:01 [######################] 100%
 libebml-1.3.1-1-i686 64,9 KiB
499K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 libmatroska-1.4.2-1... 122,0
KiB 445K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 zvbi-0.2.35-1-i686 362,4
KiB 490K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 libupnp-1.6.19-1-i686
117,7 KiB 535K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%

libtar-1.2.20-2-i686 36,2 KiB 574K/s 00:00 [######################]
100%
 vlc-2.2.1-6-i686 9,5 MiB 756K/s 00:13 [######################]
100%
(10/10) verifica delle chiavi presenti nel por...
[######################] 100%
(10/10) verifica dell'integrità dei
pacchetti [######################] 100%
(10/10) caricamento dei file dei
pacchetti [######################] 100%
(10/10) controllo dei conflitti
in corso [######################] 100%
(10/10) controllo dello spazio
disponibile sul... [######################] 100%
( 1/10) installazione
in corso di libdvbpsi [######################] 100%
( 2/10)
installazione in corso di libkate [######################]
100%
Dipendenze opzionali di libkate
 wxpython: for KateDJ
 liboggz: for
KateDJ
( 3/10) installazione in corso di libtiger
[######################] 100%
( 4/10) installazione in corso di lua
[######################] 100%
( 5/10) installazione in corso di libebml
[######################] 100%
( 6/10) installazione in corso di
libmatroska [######################] 100%
( 7/10) installazione in corso
di zvbi [######################] 100%
( 8/10) installazione in corso di
libupnp [######################] 100%
( 9/10) installazione in corso di
libtar [######################] 100%
(10/10) installazione in corso di
vlc [######################] 100%
/tmp/alpm_21NjtM/.INSTALL: riga 1:
2113 Errore di segmentazione (core dump creato)
usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f /usr/lib/vlc/plugins
Dipendenze opzionali
di vlc
 avahi: for service discovery using bonjour protocol
[installato]
 libnotify: for notification plugin [installato]
 gtk2: for
notify plugin [installato]
 ncurses: for ncurses interface support
[installato]
 libdvdcss: for decoding encrypted DVDs [installato]
 lirc:
for lirc plugin [installato]
 libavc1394: for devices using the 1394ta
AV/C [installato]
 libdc1394: for IEEE 1394 plugin [installato]

kdelibs: KDE Solid hardware integration
 libva-vdpau-driver: vdpau
back-end for nvidia
 libva-intel-driver: back-end for intel cards

libbluray: for Blu-Ray support [installato]
 flac: for Free Lossless
Audio Codec plugin [installato]
 portaudio: for portaudio support

twolame: for TwoLAME mpeg2 encoder plugin
 projectm: for ProjectM
visualisation plugin
 libcaca: for colored ASCII art video output
[installato]
 libgme: for libgme plugin [installato]
 librsvg: for SVG
plugin [installato]
 gnome-vfs: for GNOME Virtual File System support
[installato]
 libgoom2: for libgoom plugin
 vcdimager: navigate VCD with
libvcdinfo
 aalib: for ASCII art plugin [installato]
 libmtp: for MTP
devices support [installato]
 smbclient: for SMB access plugin
[installato]
 libcdio: for audio CD playback support [installato]

ttf-freefont: for subtitle font
 ttf-dejavu: for subtitle font
[installato]
 opus: for opus support [installato]
 libssh2: for sftp
support [installato]
 lua-socket: for http interface

$ vlc -vv
VLC
media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax) (revision
2.2.1-0-ga425c42)
[093198f8] core libvlc debug: VLC media player - 2.2.1
Terry Pratchett (Weatherwax)
[093198f8] core libvlc debug: Copyright (c)
1996-2015 the VideoLAN team
[093198f8] core libvlc debug: revision
2.2.1-0-ga425c42
[093198f8] core libvlc debug: configured with
./configure '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--disable-rpath'
'--enable-faad' '--enable-nls' '--enable-lirc' '--enable-ncurses'
'--enable-realrtsp' '--enable-aa' '--enable-vcdx' '--enable-upnp'
'--enable-opus' '--enable-sftp' 'LUAC=/usr/bin/luac' 'LUA_LIBS=-llua -lm
' 'RCC=/usr/bin/rcc-qt4' 'CFLAGS=-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe
-fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
-I/usr/include/samba-4.0'
'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'
'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/samba-4.0'
'CXXFLAGS=-march=i686 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4'
[093198f8] core libvlc debug: searching
plug-in modules
[093198f8] core libvlc debug: loading plugins cache file
/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat
[093198f8] core libvlc warning: cannot
read /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/plugins.dat: No such file or
directory
[093198f8] core libvlc debug: recursively browsing
`/usr/lib/vlc/plugins'
[093198f8] core libvlc warning: cannot load
module `/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/visualization/libgoom_plugin.so'
(libgoom2.so.0: impossibile aprire il file oggetto condiviso: File o
directory non esistente)
[093198f8] core libvlc warning: cannot load
module `/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/visualization/libprojectm_plugin.so'
(libprojectM.so.2: impossibile aprire il file oggetto condiviso: File o
directory non esistente)
[093198f8] core libvlc warning: cannot load
module `/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/gui/libqt4_plugin.so' (libQtGui.so.4:
impossibile aprire il file oggetto condiviso: File o directory non
esistente)
[093198f8] core libvlc warning: cannot load module
`/usr/lib/vlc/plugins/codec/libtwolame_plugin.so' (libtwolame.so.0:
impossibile aprire il file oggetto condiviso: File o directory non
esistente)
Errore di segmentazione (core dump creato)

obviously vlc
still keeps crashing...

i believe these are enough to start trying to
help me out

please feel free to suggest/ask anything else you think is
needed to solve these problems

awaiting for your quick return

thank
you

domenico