[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#789199: Does not save thumbnails for the New Tab page

[Benjamin Barenblat]

Package: chromium
Version: 43.0.2357.124-1
Severity: normal

Normally, the Chromium ‘New Tab’ page displays thumbnails of eight ‘top
sites’.  However, my installation of Chromium fails to display the
thumbnails (see [1]).  The sites are there – the thumbnails are not.  As
may be inferred from the screenshot, this persists even on a fresh
profile.

Inspecting chrome://thumbnails, as well as the
~/.config/chromium/Default/Top Sites SQLite database, suggests that the
thumbnails are actually not being saved.

This issue may be related to Chrome #475108 [2], but I’m unable to
reproduce the problem on upstream’s Chrome 43.0.2357.125, so I won’t
file a bug upstream.  I also looked at upstream’s commits between
43.0.2357.124 and 43.0.2357.125 [3], but I don’t see anything that could
have fixed this.

[1] http://web.mit.edu/bbaren/c/eb4ff8e3.png
[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=475108
[3] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+log/43.0.2357.124..43.0.2357.125?pretty=fuller

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                2.19-18
ii  libcairo2            1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcups2             1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.18-0+deb8u1
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-6+b3
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-3
ii  libharfbuzz0b        0.9.35-2
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.3.1-12
ii  libnspr4             2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnspr4-0d          2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3              2:3.17.2-1.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-3
ii  libpci3              1:3.2.1-3
ii  libsnappy1           1.1.2-4
ii  libspeechd2          0.8-7
ii  libspeex1            1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libsrtp0             1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.2-10
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-5
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.4.2-1+b1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2+b2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  x11-utils            7.7+2
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4

chromium recommends no packages.

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

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