Currently on www-client/vivaldi-5.7.2921.60, the problem started being a crasher only recently (I'd say no earlier than 5.5). Anyway, under some seemingly random conditions (like closing a tab) browser began crashing every now and then recently. After a few misses, it seems that something that didn't *seem* to matter before, now began to: for awhile in the session log I kept seeing '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_*_freq' lines from the browser; the browser before just kept going, so I've ignored it. Yet now, it seems that adding X86_INTEL_PSTATE and/or X86_AMD_PSTATE to get those has made a positive difference. So, though even if that being correct would mean it could be a chromium bug, a kernel check might not be out of place in the ebuild.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d4d1a7d02e2e2e8642925d76f2c7ba3045033eaf commit d4d1a7d02e2e2e8642925d76f2c7ba3045033eaf Author: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-04-05 20:59:16 +0000 Commit: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-04-05 21:04:44 +0000 www-client/vivaldi-snapshot: Check for CPU_FREQ in Linux kernel config Vivaldi reportedly crashes without a CPU frequency driver present. The reporter mentioned X86_AMD_PSTATE and X86_INTEL_PSTATE specifically, but linux-info.eclass is quite basic. Even if I made this conditional on the amd64 USE flag, my AMD system does not have X86_INTEL_PSTATE enabled. CPU_FREQ will not guarantee that you have any appropriate driver enabled, but at least it will nudge you in the right direction. This is arguably a Chromium bug anyway, so hopefully it will be addressed upstream. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/903518 Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> www-client/vivaldi-snapshot/vivaldi-snapshot-5.8.2970.3.ebuild | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6be77088b25e161405d2c9123c0997d1706ceae8 commit 6be77088b25e161405d2c9123c0997d1706ceae8 Author: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-04-05 20:58:18 +0000 Commit: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-04-05 21:04:41 +0000 www-client/vivaldi: Check for CPU_FREQ in Linux kernel config Vivaldi reportedly crashes without a CPU frequency driver present. The reporter mentioned X86_AMD_PSTATE and X86_INTEL_PSTATE specifically, but linux-info.eclass is quite basic. Even if I made this conditional on the amd64 USE flag, my AMD system does not have X86_INTEL_PSTATE enabled. CPU_FREQ will not guarantee that you have any appropriate driver enabled, but at least it will nudge you in the right direction. This is arguably a Chromium bug anyway, so hopefully it will be addressed upstream. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/903518 Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> www-client/vivaldi/vivaldi-5.7.2921.65.ebuild | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
