From: Laurence Tratt <laurie@tratt.net>
Subject: Chromium browsers: Meet + webcam = SIGILL?
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:55:40 +0000

Hello all,

On current, with packages upto date as of Saturday, I get a consistent
SIGILL with Google Meet and the 3 Chromium browsers I'm aware of (Chromium,
Iridium, Ungoogled-Chromium). It seems like it might be something to do
with webcam/video processing in these browsers, but I'm far from sure.

To replicate here's what I do:

  1. Open a new private window (this probably isn't important but force of
  habit, but does mean a somewhat more consistent setup).

  2. Go to meet.google.com and sign in.

  3. Start a new meeting, and enable both microphone and webcam. As soon as
  the main "you should be able to see everyone else screen" is about to
  start, I get SIGILL.

Interestingly, I can use the webcam successfully with other sites in these
browsers, and Meet works OK in Firefox.

Perhaps there's something odd about my setup that causes this --- has
anyone else encountered it?


Laurie