Restarting compiz crashes chromium-browser

[Utku Erdoğdu]

I'm using Chomium 56 on Ubuntu 16.10. Nvidia drivers are installed in the system and compiz is active. Normally I don't have any problem running chromium but if I try to restart compiz while chromium is running, chromium windows crash and it also prevents compiz from restarting.

The problem happens when I restart compiz by killing it or using compiz --replace command.

Chromium does not vanish instantly, all windows and plugins crash separately. Each window goes blank and each plugin generates a "This plugin crashed" message. Chromium is still responsive after this point and you can refresh tabs, but since compiz fails to restart there is not much to do except restarting X session somehow.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: chromium-browser 56.0.2924.76-0ubuntu0.16.10.1335
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-41.44-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-41-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DRM.card1-DP-1:
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 status: disconnected
 edid-base64:
 modes:
DRM.card1-HDMI-A-1:
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 status: disconnected
 edid-base64:
 modes:
DRM.card1-HDMI-A-2:
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 status: disconnected
 edid-base64:
 modes:
DRM.card1-eDP-1:
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 status: connected
 edid-base64: AP///////wBMg0wyAAAAAAAXAQSVIhN4Cs6FnltMlCYXUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEB3DeAoHA4QEAwICUAWMIQAAAZAAAADwAAAAAAAAAAAB6CEFIAAAAA/gBTQU1TVU5HCiAgICAgAAAA/gAxNTZITDAxLTEwNAogAM8=
 modes: 1920x1080
Date: Wed Mar 22 20:13:20 2017
Desktop-Session:
 'ubuntu'
 '/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/systemd-session:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg'
 '/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop'
DetectedPlugins:

Env:
 'None'
 'None'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-11 (404 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
Load-Avg-1min: 1.35
Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.2%
MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. N551JW
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-41-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=021ad30b-7bc5-464f-bafb-8c90d2910f20 ro quiet splash acpi_osi=
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-11-28 (113 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/03/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: N551JW.207
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: N551JW
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrN551JW.207:bd08/03/2015:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnN551JW:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnN551JW:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: N551JW
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-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.default.chromium-browser: [deleted]

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Ubuntu 16.10 has reached end of life and is not supported any longer.

Is this issue still affecting zesty/artful with the latest version of chromium (60.0.3112.78)?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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