[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#673176: chromium: Chromium causes Gnome-Shell to hang and hard reboot is necessary

[Jared Hagan]

Package: chromium
Version: 26.0.1410.43-1
Followup-For: Bug #673176

Dear Maintainer,
*** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
Normal browsing behavior. Hangs mostly occur when opening a new tab.
Opening large, but reasonable (15 or so) amounts of tabs causes a serious
hang that requires a hard reboot.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Nothing is responsive once the system hangs. Cannot restart Gnome, nor
Xorg and cannot enter a terminal. The cursor is free, but the keyboard
is non-responsive. Had to reboot.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

System returned to normal upon reboot, until Gnome inevitably hangs again.
Problem is with Gnome. Hangs do not occur when using openbox without full DE.
   



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector  26.0.1410.43-1
ii  gconf-service       3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libasound2          1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.6-4
ii  libc6               2.13-38
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-3
ii  libcups2            1.5.3-5
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5      2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libexpat1           2.1.0-1
ii  libflac8            1.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig1      2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1.1
ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgconf-2-4        3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnome-keyring0   3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libjpeg8            8d-1
ii  libnspr4            2:4.9.2-1
ii  libnss3             2:3.14.3-1
ii  libnss3-1d          2:3.14.3-1
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libpulse0           2.0-6.1
ii  libspeechd2         0.7.1-6.2
ii  libspeex1           1.2~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-5
ii  libudev0            175-7.2
ii  libx11-6            2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcomposite1      1:0.4.3-2
ii  libxdamage1         1:1.1.3-2
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxfixes3          1:5.0-4
ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu1
ii  libxrandr2          2:1.3.2-2
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.7-1
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.26-14.1
ii  libxss1             1:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils           1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

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