chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in __get_nprocs()

[Hans Ginzel]

just after closing chrome browser

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: chromium-browser 28.0.1500.71-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-2.5-generic 3.11.0-rc5
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-2-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Tue Aug 27 22:43:15 2013
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: chromium-browser\ --type=gpu-process\ --channel=11953.9.1498203940\ --supports-dual-gpus=false\ --gpu-driver-bug-workarounds=0,20,22\ --gpu-vendor-id=0x10de\ --gpu-device-id=0x0421\ --gpu-driver-vendor=NVIDIA\ --gpu-driver-version=304.
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0xb05914bd <__get_nprocs+109>: movl $0x80000,0x4(%esp)
 PC (0xb05914bd) ok
 source "$0x80000" ok
 destination "0x4(%esp)" (0xabdfe574) not located in a known VMA region (needed writable region)!
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: writing unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
StacktraceTop:
 __get_nprocs () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getsysstats.c:151
 arena_get2 (avoid_arena=0x0, size=<optimised out>, a_tsd=<optimised out>) at arena.c:848
 arena_get2 (a_tsd=<optimised out>, size=<optimised out>, avoid_arena=0x0) at arena.c:831
 __GI___libc_malloc (bytes=43) at malloc.c:2856
 malloc () from /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libs/libbase.so
Title: chromium-browser crashed with SIGSEGV in __get_nprocs()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-06-15 (73 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare scanner video
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'firefox %u\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'firefox %u\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b'compiz\n'/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'ubuntu-mono-dark\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Ambiance\n'

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make this software better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #1195797, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Closing now as this report wasn’t investigated timely and is now too old to be meaningful.
Please do not hesitate to report crashes occurring with recent releases of chromium-browser, they will hopefully be investigated and acted upon in a more timely manner.