Chromium and Chrome pausing

[Bret Ancowitz]

18.04 Budgie

Chrome and Chromium installed via debs and snaps are pausing for variable seconds at a time, many times a minute. Happens with or without any extensions. Firefox is fine. CPU usage seems to go up with the pauses. Here is the snap run chromium output:

ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type="method_call", sender=":1.143" (uid=1000 pid=5932 comm="/snap/chromium/266/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromi" label="snap.chromium.chromium (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer" member="Ping" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.secrets" (uid=1000 pid=1245 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login " label="unconfined")
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type="method_call", sender=":1.143" (uid=1000 pid=5932 comm="/snap/chromium/266/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromi" label="snap.chromium.chromium (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.Secret.Service" member="SearchItems" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="org.freedesktop.secrets" (uid=1000 pid=1245 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login " label="unconfined")
[5932:6071:0402/134337.573104:ERROR:udev_watcher.cc(60)] Failed to begin udev enumeration.

Thank you.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

So the deb package is also seemingly affected?

Does this happen with a specific web page/application open? In other words, if you close all tabs but one with e.g. http://example.org, do you still observe the lockups?

Can you open the chromium task manager with Shift+Esc and see if it gives any hints as to which process consumes an unexpected amount of CPU/memory ?

[Bret Ancowitz (iiari)]

It happened from the moment after launching the first time in Chromium and Chrome. Deb and snap both. After happening for three days, today it stopped and is working fine... I will reinstall from the Deb and see if that is working now... Thanks.

[Bret Ancowitz (iiari)]

Ok, interesting, it only stopped because I opened the Chrome task window as you suggested. When the window is open, the pausing stops completely, even if it's minimized. But if I close the Chrome task window, the pausing comes back!

[Bret Ancowitz (iiari)]

That behavior (pausing resolved by having the Chrome Task window open via shift-esc only to have pausing stop when that task window is closed) I verified in Chrome deb and Chromium snap both.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Can you elaborate on the symptoms? Is the entire browser UI frozen, or just the chrome/contents? How about other apps when that happen, are they paused too, or still responsive?

Can you please run the following command to attach debugging information to the bug report:

    apport-collect 1760661

[Bret Ancowitz (iiari)]

Not the entire browser UI, but the contents freeze for a period of time - videos, scrolling, animations, etc. If I open the Chrome/Chromium task window, everything is fine.

This doesn't happen in 18.04 Gnome/Pop. I'm going to reinstall 18.04 Budgie from scratch tonight (new Beta) and see if the problem persists on total distro reinstall...

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Also had reports on this via our support tracker discourse site. Seems chromium or chrome has this issue. Firefox apparently has no issues in playing videos.

[Bret Ancowitz (iiari)]

I reinstalled Chromium/Chrome on the new Beta 2 of Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 and the problem persists. It seems to be a visual pausing only, as audio is fine. As I mentioned, though, it impacts scrolling as well, though, which is janky. I've even seen the opening Chromium/Chrome animation pause briefly upon first boot-up, so this is still a thing :(.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Bret - please run apport-collect 1760661 to gather debug info and it will attach to this bug report

[Bret Ancowitz (iiari)]

Now a Chrome update on UB 7.10 has created the same problem there. This seems to be a Chrome issue. I've submitted bug reports to the Chrome and Chromium sites. Will continue to watch...

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Please add the links here to those upstream reports. Thanks

[Bret Ancowitz (iiari)]

Here it is:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=822549

Some suggestion in that thread that it may be a Mesa driver issue? Not clear yet, but it's not just me. I'm not crazy!

[Not Kyros (notkyros)]

I have also been having this problem lately. I mostly notice it when I'm scrolling.

[James Benton Jr (jimben11)]

I this issue going to be fixed for release?

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:10 AM, Not Kyros <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I have also been having this problem lately. I mostly notice it when I'm
> scrolling.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (1761546).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1760661
>
> Title:
> Chromium and Chrome pausing
>
> Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> 18.04 Budgie
>
> Chrome and Chromium installed via debs and snaps are pausing for
> variable seconds at a time, many times a minute. Happens with or
> without any extensions. Firefox is fine. CPU usage seems to go up
> with the pauses. Here is the snap run chromium output:
>
> ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by
> environment.
> Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: An AppArmor policy
> prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient;
> type="method_call", sender=":1.143" (uid=1000 pid=5932
> comm="/snap/chromium/266/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromi"
> label="snap.chromium.chromium (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer"
> member="Ping" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0"
> destination="org.freedesktop.secrets" (uid=1000 pid=1245
> comm="/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login "
> label="unconfined")
> Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: An AppArmor policy
> prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient;
> type="method_call", sender=":1.143" (uid=1000 pid=5932
> comm="/snap/chromium/266/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromi"
> label="snap.chromium.chromium (enforce)") interface="org.freedesktop.Secret.Service"
> member="SearchItems" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0"
> destination="org.freedesktop.secrets" (uid=1000 pid=1245
> comm="/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login "
> label="unconfined")
> [5932:6071:0402/134337.573104:ERROR:udev_watcher.cc(60)] Failed to
> begin udev enumeration.
>
> Thank you.
>
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[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Since this an upstream issue it is waiting for a fix by that team. As always chromium and chrome are regularly updated as soon as new versions are made available.