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Firefox doesn't start after installation of amdgpu driver

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carcass_dev0
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Hi,

I have a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU, including a Radeon 780M iGPU, running Ubuntu 24.04. In order to fully utilize the GPU by supporting OpenCL acceleration I installed the additional drivers by: `sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=graphics,multimedia,opencl --opencl=rocr --opengl=mesa`

After that programs which benefit from OpenCL acceleration recognize the GPU, however firefox starts crashing with the following error msg:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so: libwayland-client.so.0: failed to map segment from shared object Couldn't load XPCOM.

It seems that the AMD GPU drivers registered their libraries in `/etc/ld.so.conf.d` as 10-rocm-opencl.conf, 20-amdgpu.conf which means that libraries within the given folders are found first.

This applies to the libwayland-client library, which is used by `/usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.s`:

ldd /usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so | grep amd libwayland-client.so.0 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007013767bf000)

Interestingly the same `libmozgtk.so` library is used by thunderbird:

ldd /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozgtk.so | rg -i amd libwayland-client.so.0 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007d44b0f41000)

However thunderbird just works fine, so I expect that there might be something wrong with firefox utilizing this library.

Maybe I should also mention, that I'm not even using wayland as desktop compositor, but good old x11:

echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11

Is there any way to further debug this issue?

Hi, I have a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS CPU, including a Radeon 780M iGPU, running Ubuntu 24.04. In order to fully utilize the GPU by supporting OpenCL acceleration I installed the additional drivers by: `sudo amdgpu-install --usecase=graphics,multimedia,opencl --opencl=rocr --opengl=mesa` After that programs which benefit from OpenCL acceleration recognize the GPU, however firefox starts crashing with the following error msg: '''XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so: libwayland-client.so.0: failed to map segment from shared object Couldn't load XPCOM.''' It seems that the AMD GPU drivers registered their libraries in `/etc/ld.so.conf.d` as 10-rocm-opencl.conf, 20-amdgpu.conf which means that libraries within the given folders are found first. This applies to the libwayland-client library, which is used by `/usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.s`: ldd /usr/lib/firefox/libmozgtk.so | grep amd libwayland-client.so.0 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007013767bf000) Interestingly the same `libmozgtk.so` library is used by thunderbird: ldd /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozgtk.so | rg -i amd libwayland-client.so.0 => /opt/amdgpu/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007d44b0f41000) However thunderbird just works fine, so I expect that there might be something wrong with firefox utilizing this library. Maybe I should also mention, that I'm not even using wayland as desktop compositor, but good old x11: echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE x11 Is there any way to further debug this issue?

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carcass_dev0
carcass_dev0 Umnini wombuzo
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Maybe I should mention that I'm using the firefox 133.0 debian package from the `ppa.launchpadcontent.net/mozillateam/ppa/ubuntu` repository, not the one from snap.

I checked other desktop programs which link against `libwayland-client.so.0` and do not have any problems such as firefox.

Ilungisiwe ngu carcass_dev0

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carcass_dev0
carcass_dev0 Umnini wombuzo
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I was curious if this issue also occurs with older firefox versions and installed the package "firefox-esr". After that the issue has been gone... This is good but not really a satisfying outcome, as I have the feeling that the problem could occur again with a new version.

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