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jazznaz

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Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 10

Chromium crashing entire system on opening new tab

I'm using a fresh install of Arch x64_86 at the moment, and I've installed the stable version of Chromium from the repositories (11.0.696.65). Sometimes when I open a new tab in the browser, it will cause the entire system to lock up, forcing a hard reboot. This happens roughly once a day and, as far as I can, is totally unrelated to flash or any other addons.

Any idea where I might start looking to fix this?

twilight0

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From: Greece

Registered: 2011-05-01

Posts: 227

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Re: Chromium crashing entire system on opening new tab

Can you at least change consoles with ctrl+alt+F1 and to to tty1, look any logs?

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yungtrizzle

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Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 139

Re: Chromium crashing entire system on opening new tab

Do you have any extensions/apps/themes installed? These can put an extra load on the system.

jazznaz

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Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 10

Re: Chromium crashing entire system on opening new tab

No extensions, and the system is at an entire freeze, not just the current desktop. Requires a hard reset to fix. Unfortunately the only solution I've found is to use Firefox!

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Chromium crashing entire system on opening new tab

The latest chromium in the repo is 12.0.742.100-1 :  http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50

Can you Syu and check if it works again. If you don't get an update for chromium, try switching mirrors.

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