[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#585743: chromium-browser: Stops working on URIs after running for awhile

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 585743 + moreinfo
quit

S.D.Allen wrote:

> Everything seems to
> work in the main tab; but if one clicks on any URI that is to open in
> a child tab it will result in the cursor just spinning.

Hmm, links targetted at multiple tabs work for me.  To make sure I
understand, could you write up a simple step-by-step reproduction
recipe?

> This doesn't
> seem to affect an URI clicked on the first time after launching the
> application. Subsequent attempts do fail however.

This is probably not <http://bugs.debian.org/581347>, then. :(

> When the above behaviour exhibts itself, upon quitting chromium these
> tasks continue running gobbling up memory. I've found it necessary to
> force quite via htop afterwards, each and every time.

More debugging hints:

Could you try installing chromium-browser-dbg and attaching to some of
these processes to get backtraces?  By this I mean

 ; gdb -p $pid
 ; bt

It would be most convenient to send this additional information
directly to

  http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Defect%20on%20Linux

and send a link so continued work can happen through on the upstream
bug tracker.

Thanks for the report,
Jonathan