A plug-in (google talk plugin) is not responding in chromium

[amjjawad ]

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open Chromium
2. Visit Gmail (i am visiting already signed in so i do not enter login information)
3. While the page is partially loaded, after a few seconds i get a warning that Google Talk plugin is not responding
4. I keep getting the usuall Page unresponsive pop up unless i stop the plugin
5. When stopping the plugin the page confirms that it has crashed

See:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=379544

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: chromium-browser 34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu~1.12.04.0~pkg884
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-61.93-generic 3.2.55
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-61-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 2 13:01:42 2014
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = xubuntu
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share
DetectedPlugins:

DmesgChromium:
 [ 22.469519] type=1400 audit(1401692568.108:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session-wrapper//chromium_browser" pid=1006 comm="apparmor_parser"
 [ 1547.818184] chromium-browse[3129]: segfault at 18 ip 00007ff64683de20 sp 00007fffb5c1f790 error 4 in libc-2.15.so[7ff6467bf000+1b5000]
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[amjjawad  (amjjawad)]

I forgot to mention that when I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS, I don't have this issue at all. I'm having this only on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS and I'm not yet sure what is going on.

Both systems (Xubuntu and Ubuntu GNOME) should have the same issue. I do need however to double check.

Thank you!

[Oscar Carlberg (canhasspace)]

I have the same issue in vanilla Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS!

[amjjawad  (amjjawad)]

I have included more information here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=379544#c18

and

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=379544#c19

I suspect there is something wrong, not just only with google talk plugin. I just don't know what is it and how to fix it.

[amjjawad  (amjjawad)]

This is a reply to my comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1325498/comments/3

In fact, Chromium Version 34.0.1847.116 Ubuntu 14.04 aura (260972) on Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS is giving me hard time but it is different story - not the google talk plugin - please see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2230718

This is JUST to update the information here and to confirm that Chromium is not working okay at all on both 12.04 and 14.04 :)

Also, I learned that Chromium on 14.04 is using: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/aura

It does NOT use that on 12.04 ...

I'd like also to add that on Xubuntu, my workaround for this issue was installing Google Chrome BUT this is just a workaround, not a real fix.

As for Chromium on Ubuntu GNOME (while might be irreverent here), I didn't install Google Chrome but rather this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash and Chromium is NOT yet 100% fine, still need to do some actions twice like uploading a picture on Facebook or clicking a link. But yes, no more this screen - see attached.

Luckily, I have Firefox as another browser I always use. However, I really need two browsers and I'm more comfortable with Chromium than Chrome but let's be honest here ... it seems that Chrome is working better for some reason ...

That is all for now. Thought to provide the full picture from my side!

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017
Upstream report closed "WontFix" in May 2015
Google Talk plugin long time obsolete
No comments here for over 4 years
Closing as report is no longer valid