[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#848895: chromium: still freezing randomly but usually on changing virtual screens

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Tue Jan 24 17:48:47 UTC 2017


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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:44 PM, lkcl <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> Package: chromium
> Version: 55.0.2883.75-3
> Followup-For: Bug #848895
>
> (hi!  note: after the other bug in which virtualbox was being a pain i removed
> virtualbox and upgraded to latest testing)
>
> this randomly-freezing issue has been around for a considerable time,
> and is reproducible albeit on a 2-3 day basis.
>
> i run with about 20-30 tabs open (10x that many in firefox) and i've noticed
> that chromium stops updating the screen after returning to it from an
> alternative virtual screen with fvwm2.
>
> now, that's *not* when i return and click *on* chromium (or, more specifically,
> move the mouse over it - i've set up fvwm2 to use "mouse move to highlight")
> that really is: just come back to a different virtual screen, to find that
> it's simply... hung and is no longer responding to X11 events... at all.
>
> interestingly the CPU usage is absolutely minimal.
>
> i'm currently going through the list of processes killing them one by
> one to see if that helps...
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.4
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.7.8lkcl (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages chromium depends on:
> ii  libasound2           1.1.2-1
> ii  libatk1.0-0          2.18.0-1
> ii  libavcodec57         10:3.2.2-dmo3
> ii  libavformat57        10:3.2.2-dmo3
> ii  libavutil55          10:3.2.2-dmo3
> ii  libc6                2.23-4
> ii  libcairo2            1.14.8-1
> ii  libcups2             2.2.1-6.0nosystemd1
> ii  libdbus-1-3          1.10.14-1.0nosystemd1
> ii  libevent-2.0-5       2.0.19-stable-3
> ii  libexpat1            2.2.0-1
> ii  libflac8             1.3.1-4
> ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.7
> ii  libfreetype6         2.6.3-3+b1
> ii  libgcc1              1:6.2.1-5
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.0-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0         2.50.1-1
> ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.29-1
> ii  libharfbuzz0b        1.2.7-1+b1
> ii  libicu57             57.1-5
> ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.5.1-2
> ii  libminizip1          1.1-8
> ii  libnspr4             2:4.12-2
> ii  libnss3              2:3.26-2
> ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.38.1-1
> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.38.1-1
> ii  libpng16-16          1.6.26-6
> ii  libpulse0            9.0-5.0nosystemd1
> ii  libre2-3             20170101+dfsg-1
> ii  libsnappy1v5         1.1.3-3
> ii  libstdc++6           6.2.1-5
> ii  libvpx4              1.6.0-3
> ii  libwebp6             0.5.1-2
> ii  libwebpdemux2        0.5.2-1
> ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.4-2
> ii  libx11-xcb1          2:1.6.4-2
> ii  libxcb1              1.12-1
> 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           1:5.0.3-1
> ii  libxi6               2:1.7.8-2
> ii  libxml2              2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
> ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.1-1
> ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.10-1
> ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.29-2
> ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
> ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.3-1
> ii  x11-utils            7.7+3
> ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7
> ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
>
> Versions of packages chromium recommends:
> ii  fonts-liberation  1.07.3-3
>
> Versions of packages chromium suggests:
> pn  chromium-l10n  <none>
>
> -- no debconf information



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