Chromium and Firefox segfault randomly, while Opera works fine

Aidenn · 2010-09-12 13:53:08

Hello,

Anyone else getting random segfaults after upgrading Chromium to 6.0.472.53? 5.x was rock solid, but after community bumped the version to 6.x I keep getting lots of segfaults, it's all random and mostly happens when clicking a link, opening a new tab, refreshing the page or closing a tab. no matter the site, java, flash usage etc., it segfaults on everything. I can use it, but it's very frustrating. Any ideas?

Oh, and Firefox also does that, but I don't use it daily, so I don't know if it's the same issue. It just segfaulted on me a couple of times.

Nothing else I use segfaults, though I mostly use console stuff. The only other GTK app I use consistently is gajim, and it works 24/7. Also, I use Skype occasionally, it's fine too.

At first I thought it was because of the lack of swap, so I made a swap file and activated it, but it didn't help.

Everything I use is standard Arch stuff, besides the kernel and ACPI scripts (I use kernel-eeepc-901 and acpi-eee-generic from AUR).

Other info:

Asus Eee PC 901
1 GB RAM
Up-to-date Arch x86
Openbox
Chromium with the flashblock extension

Cheers!

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Changed the title to include latest info. :)

Last edited by Aidenn (2010-09-15 21:09:49)

anonymous_user · 2010-09-12 14:50:02

Have you tried using a clean configuration?

mv ~/.config/chromium ~/.config/chromiumold

Aidenn · 2010-09-12 15:14:13

yes, I googled a bit and found a google code bug about segfaults in 6.x and how clean config helps, but it didn't work for me. I didn't even bother backuping, I just deleted ~/.config/chromium and ~/.cache/chromium. :)

Anyway, now I'm using Opera and everything works perfectly. I miss my Chromium though.

R00KIE · 2010-09-12 17:05:13

Might the the lack of some environment variable or an environment variable with a value that causes trouble.

Post the output of 'env' and maybe someone can spot something wrong.

Aidenn · 2010-09-12 18:03:53

I thought about it, because I mostly use Chromium via the shortcut button on the Eee itself, that is controlled by the ACPI scripts, which have to do user -> root -> user transition to launch anything and they do lose all env values that way (I restore them in the urxvt console shortcut for the second shortcut button via using "LC_ALL=en_EN.UTF-8 urxvtc" for the shortcut itself and urxvt*loginShell: true in .Xdefaults). However, I have tried launching it normally too (via urxvtc, gmrun and dmenu) and it still segfaults.

Anyway, here is the env that Chromium gets after using the shortcut button: http://pastebin.com/1rSi9ebd (got this by substituting chromium with xterm in the acpi conf file)

And here is my normal env I have also tried: http://pastebin.com/iTndqg38

R00KIE · 2010-09-12 19:37:37

I can't see anything wrong with the environment, however do you really mean en_EN.UTF-8 ? That does not exist as far as I can tell.

No ideas here, I'm not familiar with openbox, maybe someone else that uses it will chime in and be able to help.

Aidenn · 2010-09-12 20:09:14

Naturally, I meant en_US.UTF-8. Thanks for noticing.

Aidenn · 2010-09-15 21:00:51

Just upgraded to 6.0.472.59, it's the same. I also checked Firefox thoroughly, the issue is exactly the same - random segfault while opening a tab/closing a tab/refreshing. Number of tabs and content don't matter, sometimes it happens with the second tab I open, sometimes with 50th. Opera is rock solid.

Any ideas guys?

-- edit --

I just made a fresh user account to rule out any wrongdoings on my part. pure skel, "exec openbox" in .xinitrc, chromium run from xterm - no change.

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Did 2 memtest passes, everything is fine hardware-wise. I think I'm going to try installing Arch from scratch next.

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Reinstalled Arch. Works perfectly. Will restore everything now and check which step was the one doing this to my Chromium.

Last edited by Aidenn (2010-09-16 00:23:13)

R00KIE · 2010-09-16 11:53:31

Probably some pacnew file you forgot to merge or some config file you personalized, the upside is that now you should have a lint free install

lowie82ph · 2010-09-17 16:11:31

Hi,

I have a similar problem. Geeqie and chromium segfaults just upon execution while firefox segfaults randomly. I also tried using new config on both geeqie and chromium but both still segfault.

Last edited by lowie82ph (2010-09-17 16:18:04)

botzoboy · 2010-09-17 16:58:23

Similar problem here. For example this TV live stream: www.antena3.ro/live.php give me segmentation fault in google-chrome, chromium, firefox, uzbl, luakit, surf but is working very well in Opera 10.5

R00KIE · 2010-09-17 21:21:45

@lowie82ph
I had a similar problem of geeqie not starting a while ago, it was due to a bad .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/
Everything else worked fine as far as I can remember.

archman-cro · 2010-09-17 21:27:37

I have just experienced two full crashes, without any output in tty. The version is 6.0.472.59. This didn't happen with older versions.

lowie82ph · 2010-09-18 00:16:51

@ROOKIE
what did you do with the .desktop file?

R00KIE · 2010-09-18 14:48:31

lowie82ph wrote:

@ROOKIE
what did you do with the .desktop file?

Fixed it

Just run desktop-file-validate on all your .desktop files and move the ones with errors to another directory and try to start geeqie, if it starts then you know thats the cause, if it doesn't then it's something else. If the problem is a .desktop file it may take a while to figure which file is the offender.

Run geeqie with --debug and see where it explodes, it may provide an hint to the problem (make sure your system is _fully_ up to date).

akuschki · 2010-09-25 13:18:42

I have the same problem, both firefox and chromium segfault on startup - every time. Removing the config does not help.This is really annoying, has anyone figured out what is wrong?

n0dix · 2010-10-27 21:16:10

Same problem for me. Google-chrome works well but Chromium doesn't. I don't tested on Firefox. Chromium version = 6.0.472.62

sanja-no1 · 2010-11-23 18:14:22

I think, i had the same problem. Which display manager do you use? gdm?
How do you start it, as daemon? I solved that problem by removing gdm from daemons-array in file /etc/rc.conf.
Now firefox works without problems. (and chrome, too).

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Chromium and Firefox segfault randomly, while Opera works fine

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