Vivaldi coredumps when starting except --disable-extensions

squeaks

Vivaldi stable had been working well but now crashes at startup. When starting vivaldi, all the windows from the previous session are created in the taskbar, but none of them load any pages, update their window names, or respond to inputs. Htop indicates systemd-coredump is working hard, and then all the windows disappear.

I am able to restore a vivaldi session by the following, but I don't know why this works and previously it wasn't requried.

$ vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions

No extensions were recently installed, and no extensions are listed at vivaldi://extensions/ , but would extensions be listed if they are disabled? If there are any installed, normal means cannot be used to uninstall or disable them.

Given that --disable-extensions allows vivaldi to start and be used, is there something that can be fixed without deleting my current windows and tabs and other session information?

Prior to being able to resume working with vivaldi with --disable-extensions, the system was updated, and rebooted. Vivaldi was updated: [2023-05-26T23:19:52-0400] [ALPM] upgraded vivaldi (6.0.2979.18-1 -> 6.0.2979.22-1)

[- vivaldi-snapshot]$ vivaldi-stable 
[666617:666617:0527/114617.085660:ERROR:chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(162)] Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled.
[0527/114806.150410:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0527/114806.150750:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0527/114806.150897:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0527/114806.151446:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
[- vivaldi-snapshot]$ coredumpctl  [snip]
Sat 2023-05-27 11:49:38 EDT  666617 1000 1000 SIGTRAP present  /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin               8.8G

The desktop looks like this:

My system information is:

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 6.3.4-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 32 × AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD FirePro W5100
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: X570 AORUS MASTER
System Version: -CF

inxi -Gxxx:

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: vfio-pci
    v: N/A arch: Pascal pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 0c:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Bonaire [FirePro W5100] vendor: Dell driver: amdgpu
    v: kernel arch: GCN-2 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports:
    active: DP-2,DP-3,DP-4 empty: DP-1 bus-ID: 0d:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6649
    class-ID: 0300 temp: 58.0 C
  Display: server: X.Org v: 23.1.1 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.1
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x2520 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1355x667mm (53.35x26.26")
    s-diag: 1510mm (59.46")
  Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: top-left model: BenQ XL2420T serial: HAC00720SL0
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 120 dpi: 92 size: 530x300mm (20.87x11.81")
    diag: 609mm (24") modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: DP-3 pos: primary,bottom-r model: BenQ XL2730Z
    serial: R9F00454SL0 res: 2560x1440 hz: 144 dpi: 108
    size: 600x340mm (23.62x13.39") diag: 686mm (27") modes: max: 2560x1440
    min: 720x400
  Monitor-3: DP-4 pos: bottom-l model: PA278QV serial: MALMQS282688
    res: 2560x1440 hz: 75 dpi: 108 size: 600x340mm (23.62x13.39")
    diag: 685mm (27") modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.0 renderer: AMD FirePro W5100 (bonaire LLVM
    15.0.7 DRM 3.52 6.3.4-arch1-1) direct-render: Yes

I've tried the following ways to start vivaldi with no success, including unbinding the 1070 gpu from vfio-pci and binding it to nvidia, and forcing vivaldi to run on the 1070 (to the best of my understanding):

$ vivaldi-stable –disable-gpu
$ QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia vivaldi-stable 
$ vivaldi-stable --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform –ozone-platform=wayland

I installed vivaldi-snapshot and it starts fine. If I copy ~/.config/vivaldi/Default to ~/.config/vivaldi-snapshot/Default then vivaldi-snapshot behaves just like vivaldi-stable and coredumps. If I rm -r ~/.config/vivaldi-snapshot/Default/ then vivaldi-snapshot starts fine again.

There are two other crashes that have been occurring for quite some time that I have not submitted bug reports for. Firstly, vivaldi would rarely (several times a week) become unresponsive to input. I would killall vivaldi-bin, and would then start it from the application menu and continue where I left off.
Secondly, sometimes opening the Vivaldi menu (File, Edit, Tools), would cause vivaldi to quickly crash. I would then start vivaldi from the application menu and continue where I left off. These quick crashes produce a coredump of reasonable size, say 130 MB. These crashes still occur with vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions.

Sat 2023-05-27 12:01:10 EDT  678088 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin               129.8M

A tar of crash logs has been prepared, and unless this problem has a known solution, a bug report and much more detailed console output and logs can be provided.

squeaks

Here is vivaldi://about/

Vivaldi	6.0.2979.22 (Stable channel) stable (64-bit) 
Revision	0d17fb5885899ddd2d5bdee8eb1b1a6fc9ad98c6
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 11.2.214.22
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --save-page-as-mhtml
Executable Path	/opt/vivaldi/vivaldi
Profile Path	/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default

squeaks

Here's the extensions folder:

$ realpath . && ls -altr
/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions
total 2680
drwx------ 1 user-arch user-arch   16 Aug  2  2022 ggaabchcecdbomdcnbahdfddfikjmphe
drwx------ 1 user-arch user-arch   14 Sep  2  2022 aiahkbnnpafepcgnhhecilboebmmolnn
drwx------ 1 user-arch user-arch   16 Jan 14 13:21 hdannnflhlmdablckfkjpleikpphncik
drwx------ 1 user-arch user-arch   18 May  9 15:40 jnhgnonknehpejjnehehllkliplmbmhn
drwx------ 1 user-arch user-arch   12 May 21 17:17 bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd
drwx------ 1 user-arch user-arch   16 May 25 15:07 bmnlcjabgnpnenekpadlanbbkooimhnj
drwx------ 1 user-arch user-arch  384 May 27 00:49 .
drwx------ 1 user-arch user-arch 4008 May 27 13:35 ..
[user-arch@antec-arch Extensions]$

I now recall I have at least the Honey extension installed, and a youtube extension, and maybe a gestures. But like I said, no way to disable them, unless I start nuking this folder.

mib2berlin

@squeaks
Hi, does this meant you can start Vivaldi and use your sessions and tabs with --disable-extensions at start?
You can save the open windows and tabs as session, close Vivaldi and move your profile folder Default to a save place.
Vivaldi create a new profile at next start, close Vivaldi, remove the folder Sessions in the new profile, copy the folder Sessions from you old profile the new one.
Vivaldi should start with the tabs and windows.
You can copy over files like bookmarks, passwords and other.
You have to reinstall the extensions but I would backup the new profile.
If you use sync disable extensions and reset remote data if all is working.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/14642/how-to-manually-backup-restore-transfer-your-profile-to-another-device

Cheers, mib

npro

@squeaks if you need some of your extensions and want to find which one is responsible for the crash, you can start adding exceptions one by one in a comma-separated list, in your case:

$ vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions-except="/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions/path/to/where_the_manifest_jsonfile_of_the_extension_is_residing/","next_path_etc..."

edwardp

@squeaks Bug reports can be submitted at https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/

Once submitted, you will receive an e-mail at the address you included in the report. Any additional information such as logs and other screenshots can be submitted, by simply attaching them to a reply to the e-mail you received. Sorry to hear of the trouble you are having.

npro

@edwardp said in Vivaldi coredumps when starting except --disable-extensions:

Bug reports can be submitted at https://vivaldi.com/bugreport/

This is of no use at this point. First OP needs to find out which extension is responsible for the crash, then test it again in a clean profile, then post the name of it and the url for others to confirm, then he should report it to the extension author.

squeaks

Ok, I put this at the top because the below may not apply anymore. After singly disabling extensions to find an offender, I retried vivaldi without disabling any extensions expecting coredump fail to start but it started correctly. So it seems if you have the problem I did, running vivaldi with singly each extension you have installed in turn, then running vivaldi without disabling any extensions may fix your problem.

So, then I deleted /Default after all the testing, and copied the failing to start /Default profile back in, and vivaldi now coredumps on start (and writes an 8.8 GB coredump).

[user-arch@antec-arch vivaldi]$ vivaldi-stable 
[95902:95902:0529/143425.093608:ERROR:chrome_browser_cloud_management_controller.cc(162)] Cloud management controller initialization aborted as CBCM is not enabled.
[95941:95941:0529/143428.086479:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[95941:95941:0529/143428.326186:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[95941:95941:0529/143428.332588:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!
[95902:95902:0529/143434.236723:ERROR:CONSOLE(15)] "Uncaught (in promise) Error: Assertion failed", source: chrome://resources/js/assert_ts.js (15)
[95902:95902:0529/143442.080283:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "Refused to create a TrustedTypePolicy named 'dompurify' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "trusted-types ".", source: chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/inject-root-bundle.js (1)
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
[95902:95902:0529/143456.912263:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "Refused to create a TrustedTypePolicy named 'dompurify' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "trusted-types parse-html-subset sanitize-inner-html static-types lottie-worker-script-loader webui-test-script webui-test-html print-preview-plugin-loader polymer-html-literal polymer-template-event-attribute-policy".", source: chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/inject-root-bundle.js (1)
[0529/143610.623525:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0529/143610.623817:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0529/143610.623947:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0529/143610.624456:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I really don't want to go through singly enabling extensions again to see if the problem goes away, insanity expects a different result. Anyway, this is the rest of my testing procedure:

I deleted my current working profile and copied the crashing profile to ~/.config/vivaldi/Default.
I verified that vivaldi would fail to start and load webpages.

If I run

vivaldi-stable –disable-extensions-except="/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions/jnhgnonknehpejjnehehllkliplmbmhn/1.29.60_0/manifest.json"

an error occurs about being unable to locate the manifest.

Then I ran one by one:


vivaldi-stable –disable-extensions-except="/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions/jnhgnonknehpejjnehehllkliplmbmhn/1.29.60_0/"
vivaldi-stable –disable-extensions-except="/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions/bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd/4.13_0/"
vivaldi-stable –disable-extensions-except="/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions/hdannnflhlmdablckfkjpleikpphncik/0.0.13_0/"
vivaldi-stable –disable-extensions-except="/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions/ggaabchcecdbomdcnbahdfddfikjmphe/2.12.6_0/"
vivaldi-stable –disable-extensions-except="/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions/aiahkbnnpafepcgnhhecilboebmmolnn/1.0.1_0/"
vivaldi-stable –disable-extensions-except="/home/user-arch/.config/vivaldi/Default/Extensions/bmnlcjabgnpnenekpadlanbbkooimhnj/16.0.1_0/"

In every case, vivaldi starts and is fine except for the vivaldi menu opening causing vivaldi to crash. Tabs open and youtube videos autoplay.

So it becomes a game of maybe a pair of extensions together is causing a crash, or maybe it's not an extension at all.

I did file a bug report.

Below I show some work:

$ cd ~/.config/vivaldi/
[user-arch@antec-arch vivaldi]$ find . -name "manifest.json" -print
./Subresource Filter/Unindexed Rules/9.44.0/manifest.json
./OnDeviceHeadSuggestModel/20230430.530023049.14/manifest.json
./OptimizationHints/393/manifest.json
./FirstPartySetsPreloaded/2023.5.17.1/manifest.json
./WidevineCdm/4.10.2557.0/manifest.json
./FileTypePolicies/58/manifest.json
./SSLErrorAssistant/7/manifest.json
./CertificateRevocation/8021/manifest.json
./PKIMetadata/599/manifest.json
./SafetyTips/2961/manifest.json
./hyphen-data/116.0.5799.0/manifest.json
./OriginTrials/1.0.0.13/manifest.json
./DesktopSharingHub/20220505/manifest.json
./Crowd Deny/2022.12.16.779/manifest.json
./ClientSidePhishing/30.2/manifest.json
./AutofillStates/2020.11.2.164946/manifest.json
./AutofillRegex/2021.8.17.1300/manifest.json
./ZxcvbnData/3/manifest.json
./UrlParamClassifications/2022.11.1.1/manifest.json
./Default/Extensions/hdannnflhlmdablckfkjpleikpphncik/0.0.13_0/manifest.json
./Default/Extensions/jnhgnonknehpejjnehehllkliplmbmhn/1.29.60_0/manifest.json
./Default/Extensions/ggaabchcecdbomdcnbahdfddfikjmphe/2.12.6_0/manifest.json
./Default/Extensions/bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd/4.13_0/manifest.json
./Default/Extensions/aiahkbnnpafepcgnhhecilboebmmolnn/1.0.1_0/manifest.json
./Default/Extensions/bmnlcjabgnpnenekpadlanbbkooimhnj/16.0.1_0/manifest.json
[user-arch@antec-arch vivaldi]$

npro

@squeaks I see you are on Wayland, Vivaldi does not offer native support for it and is running as an XWayland app. Lots of users have reported issues with Wayland. Try running it with X11 as supposed to. Does it crash then?

If you insist on Wayland I'd say as a further test ditch the command parameters, where you have used a single dash instead of a double dash for ozone-platform=wayland (could be a typo), that double parameter syntax was deprecated iirc for the simple ozone-platform-hint . Go to vivaldi://flags/#ozone-platform-hint and set it there. But again, Vivaldi does not support Wayland as of now.

@squeaks said in Vivaldi coredumps when starting except --disable-extensions:

an error occurs about being unable to locate the manifest.

yes, it's not intended to be used like that, just the path of the directory where it resides, as you did later.

ybjrepnfr

fwiw, though "unofficial", vivaldi has run fine as a full-wayland app in plasma wayland sessions for at least a year'ish, but the latest snappie 6.1.3023.3 broke it [should be irrelevant here though afaict, given o/p is only using stable].

in case any info herein might help the o/p:

thersander

This sounds more or less identical to the thread I've raised at [https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/87765/vivaldi-has-become-unstable-with-frequent-crashes](link url). Unfortunately I didn't spot this thread before I raised mine.

When starting Vivaldi from the command line, I have even experienced one of the same error messages which you describe, namely:

[0607/175642.253565:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found

followed by:

Segmentation fault

I have tried repeatedly purging my Vivaldi installation and reinstalling the following Vivaldi versions:

6.0.2979.3-1
6.0.2979.11-1
6.0.2979.15-1
6.0.2979.18-1
6.0.2979.22-1
6.1.3035.51-1

but I now find that I am having crashes irrespective of the Vivaldi version I'm using (currently 6.0.2979.18-1), so I'm not sure if something has been corrupted in my profile by Vivaldi 6.0.2979.25-1, which is the version in use when my crash issues started.

DoctorG

@thersander Does this run in shell?
vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions
if not try:
vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions --disable-gpu

limelemon

Same problem.
At first the situation was exactly as described by squeaks
Then I launched the browser from the console with the command:

vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions

and Vivaldi started successfully.
As mib2berlin advised I moved the current profile to a safe place. After launching Vivaldi, a new profile was created.
I deleted the "Session" directory in the new profile and copied the directory from the saved profile.
Vivaldi starts but crashes on various actions, such as navigating through the browser menu.
The problem persists even though there are no extensions.
The browser crashes on various actions, for example, when navigating through the browser menu.
The error message is always the same:

[0821/002547.289489:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found

then:

Segmentation fault

About my system:

vivaldi --version
Vivaldi 6.1.3035.302 stable
openSUSE Leap 15.4
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.90.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150400.24.81-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Memory RAM: 32GB

System uses XORG, not Wayland:

loginctl show-session 1 -p Type
Type=x11

Vivaldi kept crashing with no extensions installed.
Then I saved open windows and tabs in two parts in two different sessions.
Now, when you run each of them separately, the browser does not crash.
The extensions are not currently installed.
RAM is sufficient. When all windows and tabs were open at the same time, the computer did not slow down, the browser also worked quickly without any freezes.
Can a large number of simultaneously open tabs and windows together with running extensions be the cause of Vivaldi crash? Synchronization was also performed at the same time.
However, there was no such problem before.
I'm going to test the browser in both saved sessions without extensions, then I'll try to install the extensions again.
What else can be done to solve the problem?

ybjrepnfr

@ybjrepnfr for the interest of those in this thread running v in plasma wayland sessions ... several months ago vivaldi/chromium broke wayland compatibility & would only run as an xwayland app. however, per my recent post, the current snappie is once again running sweetly as a full-wayland app;

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/688517 | https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/89678/minor-chromium-update-plus-fixes-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-3105-4/20

limelemon

Testing lasted about two days. During this time, the browser did not crash. Then I turned on synchronization, and all previously installed extensions returned to the browser, as a result, Vivaldi continued to work correctly.
When the number of open tabs reached 576, the browser crashed twice, this was in the form of closing it without error messages. After restart Vivaldi operated normally.

Actions taken:

Launching the browser from the console:

vivaldi-stable --disable-extensions

Creation a session with all tabs.
Transferring the "Default" directory to a safe place.
The restart of the browser and creation a new profile.
Transferring the "Sessions" directory from old profile to new one.
Performing a start of the browser with a previously created session.
The return all extensions that used before.
Outcome: Problem solved.
Thanks to everyone for the advice and help in their posts.