Sign in to Chhromium causes "signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR 000000000028"

[tagMacher]

System info:

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04

apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
  Installed: 60.0.3112.113-0ubuntu0.16.04.1298
  Candidate: 60.0.3112.113-0ubuntu0.16.04.1298
  Version table:
 *** 60.0.3112.113-0ubuntu0.16.04.1298 500
        500 http://download.nus.edu.sg/mirror/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://download.nus.edu.sg/mirror/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu1.1233 500
        500 http://download.nus.edu.sg/mirror/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
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Steps to demonstrate problem:
1. Installed chromium-browser from Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit LTS (xenial) standard repository using apt-get.
2. Chromium-browser starts up without issues and is usable.
    EXPECTED: Google sign-in page
    OBSERVED: Frame for new window (which should be Google sign-in page) flashes in momentarily and disappears, taking with it the chromium-browser window.

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More info: Starting it in a Terminal, I was able to get the following:

user@ubuntu:~$ chromium-browser
Starting
Starting
Received signal 11 SEGV_MAPERR 000000000028
#0 0x7f33835373f7 base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x7f3383536f6f <unknown>
#2 0x7f3383cda390 <unknown>
#3 0x009ec00b9f1e <unknown>
#4 0x009ebf944984 <unknown>
#5 0x009ebf74132d <unknown>
#6 0x7f337d7fbc96 content::InterstitialPageImpl::OnDomOperationResponse()
#7 0x7f337d7fba96 <unknown>
#8 0x7f337d7fb9a0 content::InterstitialPageImpl::OnMessageReceived()
#9 0x7f337d8194f7 content::RenderFrameHostImpl::OnMessageReceived()
#10 0x7f3381213d35 IPC::ChannelProxy::Context::OnDispatchMessage()
#11 0x7f3383537ed3 base::debug::TaskAnnotator::RunTask()
#12 0x7f338356092d base::MessageLoop::RunTask()
#13 0x7f338356118b base::MessageLoop::DoWork()
#14 0x7f3383562b7a <unknown>
#15 0x7f336c7f2197 g_main_context_dispatch
#16 0x7f336c7f23f0 <unknown>
#17 0x7f336c7f249c g_main_context_iteration
#18 0x7f33835629e6 base::MessagePumpGlib::Run()
#19 0x7f338358e110 base::RunLoop::Run()
#20 0x009ebed26dd2 <unknown>
#21 0x7f337d7128b3 content::BrowserMainLoop::RunMainMessageLoopParts()
#22 0x7f337d71545d <unknown>
#23 0x7f337d70e408 content::BrowserMain()
#24 0x7f337de5bc8f <unknown>
#25 0x7f3383a9419d service_manager::Main()
#26 0x7f337de5aa62 content::ContentMain()
#27 0x009ebe6c8bac <unknown>
#28 0x7f3369dc9830 __libc_start_main
#29 0x009ebe6c8a09 <unknown>
  r8: 0000009ec2c63d80 r9: 000000000000000b r10: 0000000000000000 r11: 00007f3369f3f110
 r12: 00007ffdb51e5c20 r13: 0000009ec2cd5b80 r14: 00007f32e428f1a8 r15: 0000009ec2c09320
  di: 0000009ec2c09340 si: 0000009ec0f0a794 bp: 00007ffdb51e5c10 bx: 00007f32e428ebe0
  dx: 0000000000000000 ax: 0000000000000000 cx: ffffffffffffffe0 sp: 00007ffdb51e56a0
  ip: 0000009ec00b9f1e efl: 0000000000010246 cgf: 0000000000000033 erf: 0000000000000004
 trp: 000000000000000e msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000028
[end of stack trace]
Calling _exit(1). Core file will not be generated.
user@ubuntu:~$ Finishing
Finishing
Finishing

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Further info: apport is not triggered by this crash

[tagMacher (tagmacher)]

This seems specific to this system - I have been able to run chromium-browser on my other laptop also with Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit LTS without any issues. One difference between the two is that the computer on which it crashes is behind a corporate firewall, though I feel this is not an issue since internet access is available through a proxy server.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Is the latest update (63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) still affected?

Could you please install the debug symbols for chromium (see instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Debug%20Symbol%20Packages#Getting_-dbgsym.ddeb_packages, you want chromium-browser-dbgsym) and run in a terminal to get a more complete backtrace?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for chromium-browser (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]