Good afternoon, I have installed OpenBSD on a Lenovo X270, and I am having issues with firefox and YouTube. When I start Firefox from a terminal and record the output, I see some errors from pledge, and then a crash report "GraphicsCriticalError...". I am not sure if these errors are a result of the pledge errors, or something else (for example, a missing dependency or incorrect system configuration).
I have had a look around the internet, but haven't found any similar reports. I would welcome some pointers as to how to resolve this, even if I am just pointed towards the documentation where this is explained. Many thanks in advance! Paul
Script started on Wed Apr 8 08:36:07 2026 firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.utility: pledge(stdio tmppath rpath recvfd sendfd prot_exec unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=29.0829) [GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=29.0829) |[1][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=30.337) [GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=29.0829) |[1][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=30.337) |[2][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=31.9424) [GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.utility: pledge(stdio tmppath rpath recvfd sendfd prot_exec unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument [Child 41967, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=1c49e641000 Decode error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) - Couldn't start Utility process: file /build/tmp/pobj/firefox-147.0.3/firefox-147.0.3/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:168 [Child 41967, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=1c46bb9f300 Decode error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) - Couldn't start Utility process: file /build/tmp/pobj/firefox-147.0.3/firefox-147.0.3/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:168 [Child 41967, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=1c4144a6300 Decode error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) - Couldn't start Utility process: file /build/tmp/pobj/firefox-147.0.3/firefox-147.0.3/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:168 firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.utility: pledge(stdio tmppath rpath recvfd sendfd prot_exec unix) failed: Invalid argument Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=29.0829) |[1][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=30.337) |[2][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=31.9424) |[3][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=32.0161) [GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown [Child 41967, MediaDecoderStateMachine #1] WARNING: Decoder=1c414485300 Decode error: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) - Couldn't start Utility process: file /build/tmp/pobj/firefox-147.0.3/firefox-147.0.3/dom/media/MediaDecoderStateMachineBase.cpp:168 firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=29.0829) |[1][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=30.337) |[2][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=31.9424) |[3][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=32.0161) |[4][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.0696) [GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.utility: pledge(stdio tmppath rpath recvfd sendfd prot_exec unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=29.0829) |[1][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=30.337) |[2][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=31.9424) |[3][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=32.0161) |[4][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.0696) |[5][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.1298) [GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=29.0829) |[1][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=30.337) |[2][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=31.9424) |[3][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=32.0161) |[4][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.0696) |[5][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.1298) |[6][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.197) [GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.utility: pledge(stdio tmppath rpath recvfd sendfd prot_exec unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.utility: pledge(stdio tmppath rpath recvfd sendfd prot_exec unix) failed: Invalid argument firefox: /etc/firefox/pledge.rdd: pledge(stdio rpath tmppath recvfd sendfd unix) failed: Invalid argument Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=29.0829) |[1][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=30.337) |[2][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=31.9424) |[3][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=32.0161) |[4][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.0696) |[5][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.1298) |[6][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=36.197) |[7][GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown (t=40.7267) [GFX1-]: VideoBridgeParent receives IPC close with reason=AbnormalShutdown Script done on Wed Apr 8 08:36:50 2026
