[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#586387: chromium-browser: Lots of UI crashes and weirdness

[Jonathan Nieder]

# > I had the exact same problems with the Google packaged Chrome
tags 586387 + upstream
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Hi Joe,

Joe Neal wrote:

> I've been having a lot of weird problems with Chromium and I can't
> help but think they are all related.

Thanks for reporting this, and sorry for the slow response.

> Sometimes a tab will freeze and become unresponsive and unclosable
> until I take action on any other tab, ie open another tab or close
> another tab.

Odd.

> Sometimes there is no way to unfreeze it but to close cromium
> entirely.

Less odd.

> Sometimes when this happens non-chromium parts of
> the UI freeze up, such as my task bar, forcing a ctl-alt-del to log
> out of KDE.

More odd.  Do you mean that all X apps freeze up, or only some?  e.g.

 - can you move the mouse?
 - can you use your window manager with the keyboard (e.g., switching
   between windows/workspaces)?
 - can you switch to VT1 with ctrl-alt-f1?
 - if no, can you with alt-f1 after alt-printscreen + r?

In any event, it would be nice to get a backtrace to see where
chromium is hanging.  If you can reproduce this, could you install
chromium-browser-dbg and try attaching to the various running chromium
processes and getting backtraces from them?  i.e., for each process
listed by

  ps ax | grep chromium

use

 gdb -p <process_id>
 bt

[...]
> I saw no bugs that looked like this in the Google bug trackers.

Could you submit this and any further follow-ups to
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Defect%20on%20Linux
and send a link to this bug log so we can work on it upstream?

If you can’t because you don’t have an account or something, that’s fine,
but please do let us know in that case.

Regards,
Jonathan