chromium-browser crashed with signal 5 in g_object_new_valist()

[dino99]

crash when opening/loading some urls (boursorama, phoronix) : the web page is opened but locked (the loading tab wheel is running, scrolling the page is locked, idem for clicking a link inside the page.

i wonder if its related to the latest xdg change inside lightdm.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: chromium-browser 28.0.1500.71-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-5.11-generic 3.11.0
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-5-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 9 12:25:02 2013
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
DiskUsage:
 b'Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 ext3 15G 9.3G 4.9G 66% /\nnone tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup\nudev devtmpfs 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev\ntmpfs tmpfs 391M 1.1M 390M 1% /run\nnone tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock\nnone tmpfs 2.0G 648K 2.0G 1% /run/shm\nnone tmpfs 100M 32K 100M 1% /run/user\n/dev/sdb3 ext3 71G 33G 37G 47% /home\n'

 Inodes:
 b'Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 960K 274K 687K 29% /\nnone 176K 11 176K 1% /sys/fs/cgroup\nudev 174K 510 174K 1% /dev\ntmpfs 176K 504 176K 1% /run\nnone 176K 4 176K 1% /run/lock\nnone 176K 17 176K 1% /run/shm\nnone 176K 27 176K 1% /run/user\n/dev/sdb3 9.0M 52K 9.0M 1% /home\n'
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
MarkForUpload: True
ProcCmdline: chromium-browser\ --type=utility\ --channel=14540.10.2026008461\ --lang=en-US\ --no-sandbox\ --utility-allowed-d
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
StacktraceTop:
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_object_new () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 g_settings_new () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: chromium-browser crashed with signal 5 in g_object_new_valist()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: Debian-exim adm admin audio avahi avahi-autoipd backup bin cdrom clamav colord couchdb crontab daemon debian-tor dialout dip disk fax floppy fuse games gnats haldaemon i2c irc klog kmem libuuid list lp lpadmin mail man messagebus mlocate mysql mythtv netdev news ntp operator pcscd plugdev polkituser powerdev proxy pulse pulse-access root rtkit sambashare saned sasl scanner shadow src ssh ssl-cert staff sudo sys syslog tape tty users utempter utmp uucp vboxusers video voice whoopsie winbindd_priv www-data
chromium-default:
 CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
 . /usr/lib/pepflashplugin-installer/pepflashplayer.sh
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'
modified.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2013-09-05T15:15:29

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 g_settings_set_property (object=0xb83a9d08, prop_id=2, value=0xbfd0e008, pspec=0xb83ab610) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gio/gsettings.c:492
 object_set_property (nqueue=0xb839eb50, value=<optimized out>, pspec=0xb83ab610, object=0xb83a9d08) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gobject/gobject.c:1366
 g_object_new_internal (class=class@entry=0xb83a0a08, params=0xbfd0e11c, n_params=1) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gobject/gobject.c:1779
 g_object_new_valist (object_type=object_type@entry=3090853656, first_property_name=first_property_name@entry=0xb129caeb "schema-id", var_args=<optimized out>, var_args@entry=0xbfd0e1e8 "@\207;\270") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gobject/gobject.c:2002
 g_object_new (object_type=3090853656, first_property_name=first_property_name@entry=0xb129caeb "schema-id") at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.37.6/./gobject/gobject.c:1559

[dino99 (9d9)]

Looks like chromium needs the package gecko-mediaplayer installed:
- all url pages load smootly; no more endless lock
- but i still get a crash : seems to be a second chromium launch be killed.

The problems are:
- the chromium dependencies does not include gecko-mediaplayer (nor suggest or recommended)
- gecko-mediaplayer is a real pain , disturbing the flash installation.

note: i've tested the chromium beta branch (30) without gecko-mediaplayer : it cant work as expected

[Saikrishna Arcot (saiarcot895)]

Chromium doesn't need gecko-mediaplayer. In fact, I'm able to view the Phoronix site on Chromium 31 without gecko-mediaplayer. In addition, Chromium isn't a Gecko browser; it's a Webkit browser. Firefox and Wine's version of Internet Explorer are based on Gecko.

I would try going to about:plugins and disabling everything that mentions gecko.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That issue is gone since a while; closing it.