[snap] Chromium crashes when downloading

[Torsten Bronger]

For a couple of weeks, I observe random crashes of Chromium when you click on a link that starts a non-HTML download (e.g. PDF or an MS Excel file). After restarting Chromium and restoring the tabs, a second click on the link starts the download without problems, probably because this issue is not 100% reproducible in the first place.

Observed with Chromium 102.0.5005.115 (officiel build) snap (64-Bit) on Ubuntu 22.04

[Torsten Bronger (bronger)]

Since I just found the temporary file the Chromium creates during download (e.g. myimage.jpeg.crdownload) I can say that Chromium successfully downloaded the file fully, and then immediately crashed.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

The chromium snap is now at version 104.0.5112.79. Torsten, are you still observing these crashes with the latest update?

Do you have extensions activated? If so, can you try disabling them all and running chromium for a while, downloading files as you normally do, and let us know whether the crashes are still happening?

[Torsten Bronger (bronger)]

I don’t observe them any more. It has never been really well reproducible but I tend to think that the problem is gone.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Thanks for the feedback. Let's consider this bug fixed. Feel free to re-open if the problem occurs again.

[Daniel Martinez (pressec71)]

This is happening to me every 2 to 3 days of work.

Using Version 108.0.5359.124 (Official Build) snap (64-bit) in Ubuntu 22.04.1

[Torsten Bronger (bronger)]

I wanted to collect more data first, but since Daniel has already reported it, I must confirm that the problem is still existing.

[David Morgan (david-sinnott-morgan)]

Just confirming that this also happens on my system and has done so for a long while now. It's not specific to a particular version as I update the snap frequently (and Ubuntu versions every 6 months).

To recap: it often, but not always, crashes when downloading a file. The file is downloaded successfully as '.crdownload' file, but then Chromium crashes. After a restart the download is successful.

It happens often but not always, and I haven't detected a pattern.

[Torsten Bronger (bronger)]

Exactly my observations. My plugins: SwitchyOmega, Dark Reader, Idontcareaboutcookies

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Can the affected please run

  apport-collect 1979412

If that only works for the original reporter, you can attach

  apport-bug --save /tmp/report.log chromium-browser

Also possibly useful would be to know if there is something in journalctl around the time of the crash:

  journalctl -r | head -n 1000

And finally, Chromium has a logging mode:

  chromium --enable-logging=stderr --v=1 |& tee chromium-stderr.log

You can then attach chromium-stderr.log.

[Torsten Bronger (bronger)]

Of the latest crash, I attached the last 10 seconds in the log.

The URL I visited last was https://mails.bronger.org/xxxxxxxxxx/4?tokenFull=13t4Q4g2C_ (sorry, due to confidential content I had to replace parts of it with “x”es). It is a docx file.