Bug 277684 – [GTK][WPE] Regression: blank pages on AMD radeon graphics, "Failed to create GBM buffer of size 0x0: Invalid argument"

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Jeff Fortin]

All my Epiphany web apps are broken in 46.2 on Fedora 40 (with Wayland and open source AMD graphics), with either "ngl" (the default or "gl" as the GSK renderer.

"regular Epiphany" works (with lots of black flickering in the web view) but web apps (with --application) just a blank webkitgtk view at all times (while the window decorations do show up, and the progressbar indicates the website has loaded).

In the terminal,
when running standard Epiphany it only shows:

    WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.

when running epiphany --application, it only shows:

    Failed to create GBM buffer of size 0x0: Invalid argument


This used to work fine in GNOME 45 and earlier.

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# System Details Report

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              Dell Precision WorkStation T3500
- **Memory:**                                      24.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   Intel® Xeon® W3520  × 8
- **Graphics:**                                    AMD Radeon™ R9 200 Series (this is a R9 270 card, to be exact)

## Software Information:
- **OS Name:**                                     Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               46
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64


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Output from webkit://gpu :

{
    "Version Information": {
        "WebKit version": "WebKitGTK 2.44.2 (tarball)",
        "Operating system": "Linux 6.9.12-200.fc40.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Jul 27 15:56:15 UTC 2024 x86_64",
        "Desktop": "GNOME",
        "Cairo version": "1.18.0 (build) 1.18.0 (runtime)",
        "GStreamer version": "1.24.4 (build) GStreamer 1.24.6 (runtime)",
        "GTK version": "4.14.4 (build) 4.14.4 (runtime)"
    },
    "Display Information": {
        "Identifier": "2",
        "Type": "Wayland",
        "Screen geometry": "0,0 1080x1920",
        "Screen work area": "0,0 1080x1920",
        "Depth": "24",
        "Bits per color component": "8",
        "Font Scaling DPI": "96",
        "Screen DPI": "97.18818710757091",
        "VBlank type": "DRM",
        "VBlank refresh rate": "59Hz",
        "DRM Device": "/dev/dri/card0",
        "DRM Render Node": "/dev/dri/renderD128"
    },
    "API": "OpenGL ES 2 (libepoxy)",
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}

[Jeff Fortin]

Not only Epiphany is affected, it also happens with other GTK4 (or libadwaita?) apps that use a WebKitGTK view, such as https://flathub.org/apps/app.drey.Biblioteca which gives the same symptom (blank contents view, and "Failed to create GBM buffer of size 0x0: Invalid argument").

[Jeff Fortin]

To my surprise, it also happens with /usr/libexec/webkitgtk-6.0/MiniBrowser

Note that this only happens on AMD graphics, my Intel Kabylake GPU is unaffected.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Guess: your main Epiphany profile is unaffected because you disabled accelerated compositing there?

$ gsettings get org.gnome.Epiphany.web:/org/gnome/epiphany/web/ hardware-acceleration-policy

[Jeff Fortin]

Nope, in my case it is the default (I did not even know that setting existed). That gsetting command returns 'always'.

[Michael Catanzaro]

Interesting. Then it makes no sense that your main Epiphany profile would be fine, but all Epiphany web apps and all non-Epiphany apps are broken.

[Jeff Fortin]

This might be a race condition. With further testing, it turns out that in "non-app-mode Epiphany", the blank view problem happens most of the time on my computer, but not every time (for example, it may refuse to manifest while you are screencasting with GNOME Shell to record a video demonstrating the problem…), and when it does, it might happen only for some tabs but not others.

Strangely enough, it happens 100% reliably for me with MiniBrowser, for now.

[Jeff Fortin]

Created attachment 472070 [details]
video showing MiniBrowser 2.44.2 getting a blank view after page load

[Adrian Perez]

I am able to 100% reproduce this issue with 285999@main, also with a
card that uses amdgpu on Wayland. When I have two monitors connected
to the card (one through DisplayPort, another through DVI) then I get
the error message. If I disable either of them, then things work fine.
I think bug #273067 is essentially the same.

Interestingly enough, 2.46.3 from distro packages (Arch) does not have
this problem here.

[Adrian Perez]

*** Bug 273067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Adrian Perez]

I've just hit this a couple of times while using “run-benchmark” with the
WPE MiniBrowser. Same setup as for the GTK port. In the case of GTK it
happens practically all the time when both monitors are in use, in the
case of WPE it happens when the compositor chooses the monitor connected
via DVI as the one where to place the Wayland surface initially.

Something that might be related: one of the monitors has 2x scaling factor,
and the one connected via DVI has 1x scaling factor. The problem happens
with WPE when the output with 1x scaling factor was chosen first.

[Jeff Fortin]

This is biting me again on my desktop computer (same computer, with the AMD GPU) upgraded to Fedora 41. Still only the web applications and not "regular Epiphany".

My two monitors are 1x scaling non-HiDPI.

Today, this occurred when my monitor on the left was rotated to "Portrait right". I rotated it back to "Landscape" orientation and suddenly my Epiphany web apps showed their contents when launching them; this might just be a coïncidence though?

[Jeff Fortin]

Created attachment 473543 [details]
Monitors arrangement comparison screenshot

This combination screenshot compares the monitors arrangement I had today; if I rotate display no1 to "Landscape" then Epiphany apps' WebKitGTK views show the page contents, and if I rotate the monitor to "Portrait Right" then WebKitGTK stops working again, seemingly deterministically.

[Michael Catanzaro]

This might be a duplicate of bug #288602, which has a pull request https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/44010

[Adrian Perez]

Likely fixed by https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/44592 which has been backported to the stable branch, and is part of version 2.48.2, released this week.  

@Jeff, could you try whether using WebKitGTK 2.48.2 (or a build from “main”) fixes the issue for you? In my setup here the issue seems gone.

[Jeff Fortin]

I haven't seen this in a while, and retesting for this with a portrait-rotated monitor on my desktop computer today with Epiphany 48.4 running WebKitGTK 2.48.5, I don't experience the problem. Hoping it's not just "luck" and that was indeed a duplicate of bug #288602 :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 288602 ***

[Adrian Perez]

Thanks Jeff, for stopping by and confirming \o/