Chrome 72.0.3595.2 (Dev) on Linux can get into a state when it stops redrawing:
Facts:
- Chrome was running fine since Wed Oct 31 13:17:59 2018 (~5 days)
- Notifications (e.g. from chat.google.com) would still pop-up, but they would "paint white"
- The problem affected all Chrome windows.
- Could drag the window around, it just wouldn't repaint.
- Killing the gpu process made things work/paint again (first child of the main Chrome process that had --type=gpu-process; the killed process had a few children of its own - all of them also with --type=gpu-process; "killing" = sigterm)
- No high CPU or memory usage was observed.
- After attempting to focus a broken Chrome window, I tried pressing
Ctrl-N and AFAICT it didn't have any effect.
- chrome://gpu says:
Graphics Feature Status
Canvas: Hardware accelerated
Flash: Hardware accelerated
Flash Stage3D: Hardware accelerated
Flash Stage3D Baseline profile: Hardware accelerated
Compositing: Hardware accelerated
Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Native GpuMemoryBuffers: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Skia Deferred Display List: Disabled
Skia Renderer: Disabled
Surface Control: Disabled
Surface Synchronization: Enabled
Video Decode: Unavailable
Viz Service Display Compositor: Enabled
WebGL: Hardware accelerated
WebGL2: Hardware accelerated
No known repro steps. Maybe using Gerrit? Maybe dragging/repositioning the window?
Comment 1 by fsam...@chromium.org
, Nov 5