chromium-browser crashed with SIGABRT in TCMalloc_CRASH_internal()

[Frank]

The Chromium Web Browser crashed unexpectedly and spontaneously when I was using the Ubuntu Update Manager and Gnome Control Centre. No other signs were observed when it crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: chromium-browser 16.0.912.77~r118311-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 4 18:26:42 2012
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
ProcEnviron:

Signal: 6
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
StacktraceTop:
 raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: chromium-browser crashed with SIGABRT in raise()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-05 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:
 TCMalloc_CRASH_internal(bool, char const*, int, char const*, __va_list_tag*) ()
 TCMalloc_CrashReporter::PrintfAndDie(char const*, ...) ()
 tcmalloc::FL_Next(void*) ()
 tcmalloc::FL_Pop(void**) ()
 operator new(unsigned long) ()

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mark Preston (emarkpreston)]

This is Xubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is a clean install of Xubuntu in June 2013. After package update from Update Mgr., Chrome and Chromium fail to launch.

chromium-browser 28.0.1500.71-0ubuntu1.12.04.1

google-chrome-stable 28.0.1500.71-r209842

neither run. I tried an advice to mv pepperflash but that did not work.

[Saikrishna Arcot (saiarcot895)]

Mark, if you run chromium-browser from the terminal, do you get anything?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Closing now as this report wasn’t investigated timely and is now too old to be meaningful.
Please do not hesitate to report crashes occurring with recent releases of chromium-browser, they will hopefully be investigated and acted upon in a more timely manner.