Chromium crashes when 'Install and Relaunch' is clicked

[mblsha]

It actually manages to install the new version, but the old version is quit incorrectly and the crash dialog appears. Also, when new version of Chromium is started, it thinks that it was quit incorrectly and proposes to restore previous state.

I've found a way to stop crashing, and attached a little patch.

[Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak)]

Well, that's funny. I can see that passing self is technically wrong, since it's not really the sender, but I'm not sure why that would cause a crasher! And only in Chromium. Maybe they're doing something obscene to Cocoa. Fixed in da35ef6.

[mblsha (mblsha)]

I could provide the stacktrace, but the bug reproduces only when Chromium is compiled in Release mode, so the stacktrace is not very interested (it crashes in pthread_mutex_lock, and then has lots of recursive ChromeMain calls). Debug builds just crash without showing anything.

Thanks :)

[Andy Matuschak (andymatuschak)]

Wait. Chromium uses Sparkle? Huh?

[mblsha (mblsha)]

No. They use Google Update. I've used Sparkle in http://chrome.yandex.ru/ (it's a Chromium fork with several small patches).

[Sven Lamers (mrfuji)]

Cool, a fork :D Been looking forward to something like that.