Starting Chromium-Browser stops before main window is displayed

[Martin Z]

I installed Xubuntu 14.04.1
I installed chromium from Software Center.
I installed nvidea-304 graphic driver

If I start chromium-browser then I see the icon in the panel, but the main window never apears.
If I start sudo chromium-browser then I messagebox says: Do not run as root...

If I start from command line then the output is:
:~$chromium-browser
[3908:3908:0208/105838:ERROR:desktop_window_tree_host_x11.cc(813)] Not implemented reached in virtual void views::DesktopWindowTreeHostX11::InitModalType(ui::ModalType)
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Operation not permitted).
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Operation not permitted).
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Operation not permitted).

:~$ sudo dpkg -la | grep chromium-browser
ii chromium-browser 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068 i386 Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome
ii chromium-browser-l10n 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068 all chromium-browser language packages

~$ uname -a
Linux 3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13 19:37:48 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

:~$ apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
  Installiert: 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068
  Installationskandidat: 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 40.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1068 0
        500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://at.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages

[Martin Z (mzvienna)]

After I deinstalled nvidia graphic driver Chromium-Browser starts.
On command line some errors are printed, but it seems they have no negative effect.

:~$ chromium-browser
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
[1908:1908:0209/090431:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(327)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process
[1866:1866:0209/090435:ERROR:desktop_window_tree_host_x11.cc(813)] Not implemented reached in virtual void views::DesktopWindowTreeHostX11::InitModalType(ui::ModalType)
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed

[Victor gonzalez (victor-gonzalez-0)]

Hi @mzvienna

I'm experiencing the same bug, chromium never shows a start window, I already tried remove & install again but is not working. Is there a way to have both last nvidia drivers(361) and chromium working?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Martin,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Chromium since that time. Your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

It would help us a lot if you could test on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once in a terminal:

apport-collect 1419420

and add any additional information that you think relevant. Alternatively, please confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can the report. If we do not hear from you this bug report will automatically expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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