Crash when using qml webengineview

[convexbytes]

Re: Can't use WebEngineView.

Hi,
I am getting random crashes when I use webengineview in debug mode

[10980:14076:0114/163619.937:FATAL:com_init_util.cc(71)] Check failed: false. CoCreateInstance calls in Chromium require explicit COM initialization via base::CreateCOMSTATaskRunnerWithTraits() or ScopedCOMInitializer. See the comment in DCheckedCoCreateInstance for more details.

My environment: windows10, msvc2017 32 bit, qt 5.12.0
I also use axcontainer module to load an ActiveX object, this is a must for my application. I use these libraries
QT += qml quick quickcontrols2
QT += widgets
QT += multimedia
QT += core
QT += webengine
QT += axcontainer

Is there any caveat when using together with other COM components?

Please let me know if this is known error or give me any clue. I can post most information if required.

[convexbytes]

I wrote to chromium developers, so, here is the summary

• It is not a crash, it is a failed debug assertion
• It happens if:
  • you use webview's chromium backend (recent versions, old versions don't have this assertion)
  • some part of you code consumes COM and
  • that code's thread is not explicitly initializing COM via CoInitialize or CoInitializeEx

My code uses a library that was not properly initializing COM in its threads before calling CoCreateInstance. Calling CoInitialize should fix my issue, but I cannot prove it until I have access to that libraries source code.

What is left to be done by qt/webview team is to fix the failed assertion on "Chrome_InProcGpuThread" which is not created by user.