linux-kernel - Re: BISECT result: 6.0.0-RC kernels trigger Firefox snap bug with 6.0.0-rc3 through 6.0.0-rc7

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Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:38:26 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     Phillip Lougher <phillip.lougher@...il.com>
Cc:     Phillip Lougher <phillip@...ashfs.org.uk>,
        regressions@...mhuis.info, mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, marcmiltenberger@...il.com,
        regressions@...ts.linux.dev, srw@...dewatkins.net
Subject: Re: BISECT result: 6.0.0-RC kernels trigger Firefox snap bug with
 6.0.0-rc3 through 6.0.0-rc7

On 10/18/22 00:25, Phillip Lougher wrote:
>> Sorry for speaking late about my triggering cause.
>>
>> As the background, on my Debian 11 computer, I have lxd snap installed.
>> I use lxd to channel my sysadmin side by spinning up containers and
>> installing server applications there (LAMP, email, DNS).
>>
>> Back to triggering cause. I can trigger the regression when the network
>> connection drops (when Firefox shows connection problem page). Then
>> I run `lxd list` to list container instances and I get the Verneed
>> regression error.
>>
> 
> This appears to be both deterministic, and appears to show something
> happening in the Firefox snap triggers an error in the Lxd snap.
> 
> This will then not be a Squashfs issue.  Firefox running in one
> Squashfs filesystem
> can't trigger a failure in another Squashfs filesystem.  This has to be caused
> by something else.
> 

Hi Phillip,

My Firefox runs from upstream tarball (not via snap), so the problem may lie
on snapd itself.

Thanks.

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