Web process crash when hinting

[balejk]

Current Behavior:

On certain pages, the WebKit Web Process crashes when f is pressed to invoke follow hints.

(WebKitWebProcess:6679): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 13:59:32.739: g_object_get_is_valid_property: object class 'WebKitDOMHTMLLabelElement' has no property named 'type'

gets printed to the terminal.

Desired Behavior:

The process should not crash and hints should be displayed.

How can we reproduce it (step by step):

One of these pages is for instance https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/2/25/. Open this URL and invoke hints (f).

I have reproduced this with HOME=/tmp/home luakit so my personal configuration should not cause the issue.

Environment:

Linux Distribution & Version: Void Linux
Output of luakit --version:

luakit 2.3.6
  built with: webkit 2.42.5 (installed version: 2.42.5)
                 GTK 3.24.38 
                GLIB 2.78.0 
                SOUP 3.4.2

[c0dev0id]

I'm seeing the "GLib-GObject-CRITICAL" error, but no crash and all hints are properly displayed.

Can you reproduce this with --log=debug? Redirect it to a file with luakit --log=debug > debug.log 2>&1

[balejk]

I attach the output for HOME=/tmp/home luakit --log=debug > debug2.log 2>&1.
debug2.log

I forgot to mention that I'm using the musl libc implementation which often leads to problems which do not occur with glibc, so there is a chance that that's the reason why you cannot reproduce it. If this was really related to musl, the problem could well originate within webkit itself.

Also, it seems that when I make the window thin enough so that only left or right part of it is visible, the hints work. Almost as if the problem was that there are too many of them. The CRITICAL error does still appear in the log though which could suggest that it is not related to the crash at all after all.

[balejk]

Also, the problem does not seem to occur with ``` luakit 2.3.3 built with webkit 2.40.0 (installed version: 2.42.5) ``` not even the error message is printed, so either some change in luakit since then is the cause or it could be related to the switch to libsoup3 and the corresponding build of webkit.

[c0dev0id]

That's good information. Thanks!