Comment 0 for bug 887850

After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10, Chromium started crashing randomly with errors like:

[12848:12848:46799318261:ERROR:browser_main.cc(96)] Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -2147483648 and height 876
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chromium-browser: /build/buildd/cairo-1.10.2/src/cairo-surface.c:1287: cairo_surface_set_device_offset: asserzione "status == CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS" non riuscita.
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When the Gtk: gtk_widget_size_allocate() errors happen I can see the tabs width becoming very small and this is usually a few seconds before the crash. If I resize the browser's window the tabs return to the correct width and I get a few extra seconds before it crashes.

Visiting certain sites (like ebay) and opening new tabs seems to give more chances to crash, but not always.

Upgrading Chromium to 15.0.874.106 (Build 107270 Linux) from the proposed repository did not help. Nor it did disabling all the extensions.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: chromium-browser 15.0.874.106~r107270-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Wed Nov 9 02:05:00 2011
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu-2d
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu-2d:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu-2d:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-04 (4 days ago)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""