Bug 229650 – [GTK] facebook.com/watch or Facebook videos crash the web process

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED MOVED

[Amr Ibrahim]

This bug affects GNOME Web 3.38.2 on WebKitGTK 2.32.3 or the MiniBrowser on Debian 11 Bullseye.

Steps to reproduce the bug:

0. Open GNOME Web or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0/MiniBrowser
1. Go to https://www.facebook.com/watch
2. Browse a bit or try to play a video
3. The web process crashes and there is nothing to see

[Michael Catanzaro]

Works for me. As with any crash report, please post a backtrace taken with gdb. There are some instructions at https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/Bugzilla/GettingTraces if you're not familiar with getting backtraces.

[Amr Ibrahim]

Created attachment 436739 [details]
Backtrace from the MiniBrowser

[Michael Catanzaro]

Comment on attachment 436739 [details]
Backtrace from the MiniBrowser

There is no backtrace here. Looks like you tried to get a backtrace from the UI process. You need to get a backtrace for the web process that is actually crashing.

Sadly Debian does not enable coredumpctl by default. If you had that available, then you could simply run 'coredumpctl gdb' after it crashes.

[Amr Ibrahim]

Thanks for giving me a hint on how to debug this.

It turned out that the bug was in the intel-media-va-driver, and a workaround is to install intel-media-va-driver-non-free. The web process doesn't crash when the non-free driver is installed instead of the free one.

https://github.com/intel/media-driver/issues/1132

So this bug can be closed now.

[Michael Catanzaro]

OK then.