Comment 0 for bug 1696965

Chromium 59.0.3071.86 was promoted to the stable release channel earlier this week, and I have built packages for all supported ubuntu releases at https://launchpad.net/~osomon/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-stable.

While they seem to work well on bare metal and in virtualbox virtual machines, we are seeing an issue in KVM guests (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04.2): when launched, the page in the first tab is not rendered at all (the contents remain blank). Refreshing the page doesn't make things any better. But browsing to a different domain in the same tab "fixes" the issue.

All URLs are affected: the default URL when opening the browser for the first time is chrome://welcome, and it's not rendered, and so aren't other http URLs when passed on the command line.

It looks like the first renderer process is not able to render to screen correctly. The renderer process itself looks okay, it doesn't crash, and I haven't seen anything relevant in the verbose logs.

The official google chrome release on the same configuration is not affected, so this problem is specific to our chromium-browser packages.