[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#838864: chromium crashes soon after start

[robert b]

Package: chromium
Version: 53.0.2785.113-1~deb8u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?

Started chromium.

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

Upgraded from chromium 52 -> chromium 53.  Downgrading to chromium 52 makes it work again.

Tried "chromium -g" and it appeared to crash when calling some function in ld-linux-x86-64 .  (Note that, due to limited resources on the machine in question, I cannot download and use chromium-dbg.)

   * What was the outcome of this action?

About 10-15 seconds later, chromium gets a segmentation fault.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

It to continue to work.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (300, 'stable-updates'), (300, 'stable'), (50, 'testing-updates'), (50, 'testing')
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

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+deb8u3
ii  libcairo2            1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii  libcups2             1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.6.8-1+deb7u6
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-6+deb8u3
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii  libgcc1              1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.3.1-12
ii  libnspr4             2:4.10.7-1+deb8u1
ii  libnspr4-0d          2:4.10.7-1+deb8u1
ii  libnss3              2:3.17.2-1.1+deb8u1
ii  libnss3-1d           2:3.17.2-1.1+deb8u1
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  libspeechd2          0.7.1-6.2
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.2-10
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-1
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              2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u2
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.3.2-2+deb7u1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.7-1+deb7u2
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2+deb8u1
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.1-1+deb7u1
ii  x11-utils            7.7~1
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
ii  chromium-inspector  53.0.2785.113-1~deb8u1
pn  chromium-l10n       <none>

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