GNOME Shell browser plugin is crashy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
GNOME Shell |
Confirmed
|
Wishlist
|
|||
Ubuntu GNOME |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
WebKit |
Invalid
|
Medium
|
|||
gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Triaged
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Yakkety |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
webkit2gtk (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Yakkety |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Impact
======
The GNOME Shell browser plugin is unstable when Epiphany (the GNOME Web browser app) access https:/
Steps to Reproduce
==================
- From Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS or 16.10, install epiphany-browser
- Browse to https:/
- Click around. Eventually, the gnome-shell plugin will crash. This might be triggered by visiting https:/
- You can tell it crashed because /var/crash/ will get a file that looks something like _usr_lib_
Also, the website may display this message:
"We cannot detect a running copy of GNOME on this system, so some parts of the interface may be disabled. See our troubleshooting entry for more information."
- Reloading the page seems to work.
Regression Potential
=======
Minimal. This one-line change was applied to GNOME Shell 3.18+'s git branches.
Other Notes
===========
errors.ubuntu.com title: /usr/lib/
The Ubuntu Error Tracker has been receiving reports about a problem regarding webkit2gtk. This problem was most recently seen with package version 2.14.1-0ubuntu1, the problem page at https:/
If you do not have access to the Ubuntu Error Tracker you can request it at http://
For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, this looks like
https:/
description: | updated |
Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ubuntu-gnome: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- - gnu/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitPluginProcess:11:WebKit::NPN_InvokeDefault:on_shell_signal:ffi_call_unix64:ffi_call:g_cclosure_marshal_generic + GNOME Shell browser plugin is crashy |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in ubuntu-gnome: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: zesty |
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in webkit-open-source: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in webkit-open-source: | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Invalid |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu Yakkety): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Yakkety): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
tags: | added: trusty |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Yakkety): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in gnome-shell: | |
status: | Won't Fix → Confirmed |
Tracker for GNOME Shell browser plugin crashes, since we still have many of these even after all the fixes that went into 3.18.3.
Since this plugin is going away, these crashes are only important if they turn out to be WebKit bugs and not GNOME Shell bugs.