[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#740293: chromium: Chromium browser crashes on startup

[Stephen Hemminger]

Package: chromium
Version: 32.0.1700.123-1~deb7u1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I have a problem that has been happening sproradically. It seems to
come on go on my system, but when it does the problem is repeatable.

Chromium crashes on startup with a SEGV.

Running under gdb with symbols gives:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffdaf24700 (LWP 15053)]
extensions::CastChannelAsyncApiFunction::SetResultFromSocket (this=this at entry=0x7fffd0802800, channel_id=<optimized out>)
    at chrome/browser/extensions/api/cast_channel/cast_channel_api.cc:156
156	chrome/browser/extensions/api/cast_channel/cast_channel_api.cc: No such file or directory.
(gdb) where
#0  extensions::CastChannelAsyncApiFunction::SetResultFromSocket (this=this at entry=0x7fffd0802800, channel_id=<optimized out>)
    at chrome/browser/extensions/api/cast_channel/cast_channel_api.cc:156
#1  0x000055555979a1d3 in extensions::CastChannelOpenFunction::OnOpen (this=0x7fffd0802800, result=<optimized out>)
    at chrome/browser/extensions/api/cast_channel/cast_channel_api.cc:210
#2  0x000055555979f93a in Run (a1=@0x7fffdaf22cbc: -104, this=0x7fffdaf22e80) at ./base/callback.h:436
#3  extensions::api::cast_channel::CastSocket::Connect(base::Callback<void (int)> const&) (this=this at entry=0x7fffc83460d0, callback=...)
    at chrome/browser/extensions/api/cast_channel/cast_socket.cc:192
#4  0x000055555979a515 in extensions::CastChannelOpenFunction::AsyncWorkStart (this=0x7fffd0802800) at chrome/browser/extensions/api/cast_channel/cast_channel_api.cc:205
#5  0x00005555589a8c21 in extensions::AsyncApiFunction::WorkOnWorkThread (this=0x7fffd0802800) at chrome/browser/extensions/api/api_function.cc:71
#6  0x00005555564e9eb4 in Run (this=0x7fffdaf23498) at ./base/callback.h:396
#7  base::MessageLoop::RunTask (this=this at entry=0x55555baa5150, pending_task=...) at base/message_loop/message_loop.cc:490
#8  0x00005555564eae68 in base::MessageLoop::DeferOrRunPendingTask (this=this at entry=0x55555baa5150, pending_task=...) at base/message_loop/message_loop.cc:502
#9  0x00005555564ec700 in DoWork (this=<optimized out>) at base/message_loop/message_loop.cc:616
#10 base::MessageLoop::DoWork (this=0x55555baa5150) at base/message_loop/message_loop.cc:595
#11 0x00005555564b7f69 in base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run (this=0x55555baa53e0, delegate=0x55555baa5150) at base/message_loop/message_pump_libevent.cc:232
#12 0x00005555564edaea in base::MessageLoop::RunInternal (this=0x55555baa5150) at base/message_loop/message_loop.cc:440
#13 0x000055555650a338 in base::RunLoop::Run (this=0x7fffdaf23880) at base/run_loop.cc:47
#14 0x00005555564e9224 in base::MessageLoop::Run (this=<optimized out>) at base/message_loop/message_loop.cc:311
#15 0x00005555584ef504 in content::BrowserThreadImpl::IOThreadRun (this=this at entry=0x7fffe4044090, message_loop=message_loop at entry=0x55555baa5150)
    at content/browser/browser_thread_impl.cc:162
#16 0x00005555584f0163 in content::BrowserThreadImpl::Run (this=0x7fffe4044090, message_loop=0x55555baa5150) at content/browser/browser_thread_impl.cc:188
#17 0x000055555652005f in base::Thread::ThreadMain (this=0x7fffe4044090) at base/threading/thread.cc:205
#18 0x000055555651af29 in base::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadFunc (params=<optimized out>) at base/threading/platform_thread_posix.cc:80
#19 0x00007ffff27fcb50 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at pthread_create.c:304
#20 0x00007ffff10e40ed in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112
#21 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13.3 (SMP w/8 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  32.0.1700.123-1~deb7u1
ii  gconf-service       3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libasound2          1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libc6               2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-3
ii  libcups2            1.5.3-5+deb7u1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libexpat1           2.1.0-1+deb7u1
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+deb7u1
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+deb7u1
ii  libnss3             2:3.14.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
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+deb7u1
ii  libxcomposite1      1:0.4.3-2
ii  libxdamage1         1:1.1.3-2
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii  libxfixes3          1:5.0-4+deb7u1
ii  libxi6              2:1.6.1-1+deb7u1
ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu2
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.7-1+deb7u1
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.26-14.1
ii  libxss1             1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6            2:1.2.1-1+deb7u1
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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