Chromium 20.0.1132.47 and 21.0.1180.89 keep crashing silently

[Benjamin Hilton]

At seemingly random times, though often after launch, chromium exits with no error message. When it is started up again, there is a bar at the top of the screen saying that chromium did not shut down properly, with a button to restore tabs. Clicking the button often results in chromium crashing again.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (64-bit).

I tried running chromium-browser from the command line, and when it crashes, the following message shows: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)".

about:version outputs:
Chromium 20.0.1132.47 (Developer Build 144678) Ubuntu 12.04
OS Linux
WebKit 536.11 (trunk@116185)
JavaScript V8 3.10.8.19
Flash 11.2 r202
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/20.0.1132.47 Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11
Command Line /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --flag-switches-begin --enable-sync-tabs --flag-switches-end
Executable Path /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
Profile Path /home/benjamin/.config/chromium/Default

[Alemann Massho (armistice-con-deactivatedaccount)]

Chromium 20.0.1132.47 (Developer Build 144678) Ubuntu 12.04
OS Linux
WebKit 536.11 (trunk@116185)
JavaScript V8 3.10.8.19
Flash 11.2 r202
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/20.0.1132.47 Chrome/20.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11
Command Line /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --flag-switches-begin --show-fps-counter --flag-switches-end
Executable Path /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
Profile Path /home/andrew/.config/chromium/Default

dmesg shows:

[ 126.815016] chromium-browse[2696]: segfault at 21 ip 0000000000000021 sp 00007fff71f473b8 error 14 in SYSV00000000 (deleted)[7ffae0fd1000+342000]
[ 663.747040] chromium-browse[3796]: segfault at 7f020336ed00 ip 00007f020336ed00 sp 00007fff940afe48 error 15

Was there a recent update? This was only filed 12 hours ago...

[Radu Chiriac (rmchiriac)]

Also happens on Kubuntu 12.04 x64.
Started *very* recently - about 24h ago for me.
Keeps crashing constantly, I've removed the chromium's cache and config directory, tried using default skin - nothing helped. It just crashes silently randomly. The only message I could get is from dmesg (error like these):

[ 3168.887219] chromium-browse[4185]: segfault at 7f7dc51a9ae0 ip 00007f7dc51a9ae0 sp 00007fff57078fa8 error 15

[Radu Chiriac (rmchiriac)]

Started happening on my office Kubuntu 12.04 too. It started happening today after installing the latest upgrades. The list of installed upgrades:

2012-09-24 13:35:19 upgrade libdbus-1-3:i386 1.4.18-1ubuntu1 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.1
2012-09-24 13:35:19 upgrade libdbus-1-3 1.4.18-1ubuntu1 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.1
2012-09-24 13:35:21 upgrade chromium-browser-l10n 18.0.1025.168~r134367-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 20.0.1132.47~r144678-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
2012-09-24 13:35:22 upgrade chromium-codecs-ffmpeg 18.0.1025.168~r134367-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 20.0.1132.47~r144678-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
2012-09-24 13:35:22 upgrade chromium-browser 18.0.1025.168~r134367-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 20.0.1132.47~r144678-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
2012-09-24 13:35:25 upgrade dbus 1.4.18-1ubuntu1 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.1
2012-09-24 13:35:25 upgrade libgnomevfs2-common 1:2.24.4-1ubuntu2 1:2.24.4-1ubuntu2.1
2012-09-24 13:35:26 upgrade libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.4-1ubuntu2 1:2.24.4-1ubuntu2.1
2012-09-24 13:35:30 upgrade tzdata 2012e-0ubuntu0.12.04 2012e-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
2012-09-24 13:35:38 upgrade dbus-x11 1.4.18-1ubuntu1 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.1
2012-09-24 13:35:38 upgrade libgs9 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.1 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2
2012-09-24 13:35:38 upgrade libgs9-common 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.1 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2
2012-09-24 13:35:39 upgrade ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.1 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2
2012-09-24 13:35:39 upgrade ghostscript-x 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.1 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2
2012-09-24 13:35:39 upgrade ghostscript-cups 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.1 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2
2012-09-24 13:35:39 upgrade linux-generic 3.2.0.30.32 3.2.0.31.34
2012-09-24 13:35:39 upgrade linux-image-generic 3.2.0.30.32 3.2.0.31.34
2012-09-24 13:35:42 upgrade linux-headers-generic 3.2.0.30.32 3.2.0.31.34
2012-09-24 13:35:42 upgrade linux-libc-dev 3.2.0-30.48 3.2.0-31.50

[Benjamin Hilton (barhilton)]

This has been happening to me for a while (a couple of weeks?), I just decided to report it now, so the fact that this is quite new may not be directly relevant.

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

I'm not quite sure what the latest Chromium version in 12.04(.1) is, but until the ubuntu chromium ppa is updates, you may want to head over to http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/new-chromium-stable-and-development.html I'm awaiting for he and ubuntu-ppa people to have a chat, hopefully we will get the ubuntu-ppa cromium back to being updated.

[Lain (lain80)]

I've the same problem, too. I'm just did the "Update Manager" command but the problem still exist.

mauri@mauri-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux mauri-laptop 3.2.0-31-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:16:45 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
mauri@mauri-laptop:~$ dmesg
[...]
[29947.592536] chromium-browse[3487]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fff7dcae978 error 14
[32211.592237] chromium-browse[20942] general protection ip:7f266a9fb391 sp:7fffdf283490 error:0 in chromium-browser[7f2668572000+44d9000]
[32218.087507] chromium-browse[26804] general protection ip:7f117ff7a391 sp:7fffc31ea100 error:0 in chromium-browser[7f117daf1000+44d9000]

[Benjamin Hilton (barhilton)]

I upgraded to version 21.0.1180.89 (Developer Build 154005), and it still happens.

[kedmond (kedmond)]

I'm having precisely the same problem. Seg fault on Chromium-browser version 20, on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. It crashes quietly very frequently on both my laptop and my workstation. Very frustrating!

[Paul Mathai (paulrmathai)]

I've been having this problem for maybe a week now. I'm on chromium 20.0.1132.47 Ubuntu 12.04 (144678) 64-bit.

[Denis Balasse (denis-balasse)]

It happens a lot while using Ctrl+W to close one tab.
And after restart and restore, the tab that was about to be closed is back.

[Gabor Toth (gabor-me)]

For me it happens all the time. When closing a tab. When opening a new
tab. When copy+pasting stuff onto another tab or from another app to a
window. It happens with 2 open tab and with 10 open tab.
Sometimes it is stable for some days, and sometimes it crashes twice a
minute or right after reopening again.

Almost sounds as stable as Windows :P

Does anyone know if this bug is being fixed within the Ubuntu groups or
Google have to come up with the fix? I have reported it in Chrome too
directly to Google. It seems to be going on now for 2 weeks or more and
no bug fix coming out. Is there anyone listening to the reports? Wonder...

Gabor Toth

<email address hidden>

On 10/04/2012 03:26 PM, Denis Balasse wrote:
> It happens a lot while using Ctrl+W to close one tab.
> And after restart and restore, the tab that was about to be closed is back.
>

[Alemann Massho (armistice-con-deactivatedaccount)]

"It happens a lot while using Ctrl+W to close one tab.
And after restart and restore, the tab that was about to be closed is back."

I can definitely confirm this. The crashes (on my machine at least) always occur after a Ctrl+W (but not a tab close with the mouse, for some reason.

[Gabor Toth (gabor-me)]

Just to add some data, in my machine it happens with mouse closing new
window, as well as opening new window.

Sometimes while loading Youtube, for example, the browser slows down
then freezes for about 5 seconds and then crashes.

Gabor Toth

<email address hidden>

On 10/06/2012 11:10 PM, Alemann Massho wrote:
> "It happens a lot while using Ctrl+W to close one tab.
> And after restart and restore, the tab that was about to be closed is back."
>
> I can definitely confirm this. The crashes (on my machine at least)
> always occur after a Ctrl+W (but not a tab close with the mouse, for
> some reason.
>

[Benjamin Hilton (barhilton)]

I don't use Ctrl+W often, yet Chromium still crashes. Unusually, yesterday, chromium crashed when I was not opening/closing tabs.

[GreyGeek (greygeek77)]

This crash has been occurring, most often at startup, but randomly when I open a new tab, or close one, or enter data, etc... After it crashes a few times it will remain open for an hour or more without a crash.

Kubuntu 12.04 x64 fully patched.

[Mike Lindsay (lindsm)]

Chrome been working fine for a few months now. I come in this morning, my computer is shut off, implying a power event. I turn it back on, everything seems to come up normally. I get to chrome start surfing my morning rituals, and chrome just goes away. This is on ubuntu 12.04 x64 running chrome Version 22.0.1229.94. I played around with it a bit, and it did it aboue 3 times in the course of 5 minutes. It seemed to happen anytime I clicked a link. I haven't noticed if it was related to tab behavior or not as previous posters have said.

[Gabor Toth (gabor-me)]

Hi Mike,

Just to clarify, you talk about Google Chrome or Chromium?
The original bug is about Chromium.

Thanks,

Gabor Toth

E-mail: <email address hidden> Phone: [phone]

On 10/18/2012 05:58 PM, Mike Lindsay wrote:
> Chrome been working fine for a few months now. I come in this morning,
> my computer is shut off, implying a power event. I turn it back on,
> everything seems to come up normally. I get to chrome start surfing my
> morning rituals, and chrome just goes away. This is on ubuntu 12.04 x64
> running chrome Version 22.0.1229.94. I played around with it a bit, and
> it did it aboue 3 times in the course of 5 minutes. It seemed to happen
> anytime I clicked a link. I haven't noticed if it was related to tab
> behavior or not as previous posters have said.
>

[Gregory Kramida (algomorph)]

I have also consistently observed this behavior (crashing all tabs, reporting error) with the Chromium 20.0.1132.47 Build 144678.
However, it seems as though this usually happens when I go to a new website after entering the URL in the address bar (not clicking on links). Not every time, but frequently. So far didn't notice any dependence on what that website or address is.

[Khlon Oleksandr (a-blackrain)]

I have the same problem - Chromium crashes unexpectedly with segfault error. Chromium version - 20.0.1132.47, Ubuntu - 12.04.

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

Hi Folks, there was a drop off in the supported Ubuntu Chromium PPA area at https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/stable along with all the other ones. The stables for all currently supported versions of Ubuntu are hopefully due to be arriving in about the next 7 - 10 working days. The new guy has a lot of work to catch up on, but as it is now 'in-house' to Canonical once he gets things caught up, all the current (Not End of Life) versions will have updates available. Once we are singing from the same hymn sheet and all on the same version, bug tracking will be one heck of a lot easier :)

[jonny old account don't use (jonny-cooper)]

Hi,

Is there any update to this crash problem? I am still experiencing the issue of chromium crashing with no error report. In the previous post on the 9th of September it was said that something would be happening within 8-10 days. I am keeping my system upto date but maybe im not downloading the correct files to fix this issue?

Thanks

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

Further to my earlier comments, we still await the 'normal' PPAs to be enabled. In the meantime, there is a workaround. The details are at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Workarounds#Chromium_not_Updating

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Benjamin Hilton, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is missing. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer. First, execute at a terminal:
cd /var/crash && sudo rm * ; sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade && sudo apt-get -y install chromium-browser-dbg && sudo service apport start force_start=1

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

Now reproduce the crash, then open your file manager, navigate to your /var/crash directory and open the crash report you wish to submit.
If this fails you will have to open a terminal and file your report with 'ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash' where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report. If you get an error that you aren't allowed to access this report you will have to file it with 'sudo ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash'. If you run the command against the crash report and a window pops up asking you to report this, but then never opens a new report, you would be affected by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/994921 . In order to WORKAROUND this, one would need to open the following file via a command line:
gksudo gedit /etc/apport/crashdb.conf

and comment out the line:
'problem_types': ['Bug', 'Package'],

by changing it to:
# 'problem_types': ['Bug', 'Package'],

Save, close, and try to file the crash report again via:
ubuntu-bug /var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs