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foolosophy

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Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 48

Chromium segfaults and hangs all X11

Hi, I'm getting this issue frequently (once or twice a day) using chromium. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I get random crashes while web surfing with chromium. The whole UI blocks: I can move my mouse pointer, but nothing reacts, not only in chromium, but nothing at all in the desktop environment (Gnome 3). I have to change to a tty and issue "systemctl restart gdm" or reboot to get back to normal.

This is what I could find in journalctl:

jul 20 20:30:04 computer.localdomain chromium.desktop[5240]: [6499:6500:0720/203004:ERROR:gpu_watchdog_thread.cc(253)] The GPU process hung. Terminating after 10000 ms.
jul 20 20:30:04 computer.localdomain kernel: Watchdog[6500]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f92693bd806 sp 00007f9255468880 error 6 in chromium[7f9265787000+573c000]
jul 20 20:30:04 computer.localdomain chromium.desktop[5240]: [5240:5240:0720/203004:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(440)] Failed to establish GPU channel.

mikioma

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From: Spain

Registered: 2009-03-26

Posts: 18

Re: Chromium segfaults and hangs all X11

Same issue here!!! Initially I blamed VirtualBox, but after switching to Firefox, the problem has disappeared...

My graphics card is "Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics".

mysticx

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Registered: 2014-04-15

Posts: 4

Re: Chromium segfaults and hangs all X11

I started to get the same errors a couple of days ago, usually after resuming from standby. X11 hangs and only refreshes once you switch to some tty and back. A restart is necessary to solve the problem

Linux x220-arch 3.15.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 28 20:06:17 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
extra/chromium 36.0.1985.125-1 [installed]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

finale

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Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 19

Re: Chromium segfaults and hangs all X11

Try disabling "Use hardware acceleration when available" in the Settings page.

mssun

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Registered: 2013-04-06

Posts: 33

Re: Chromium segfaults and hangs all X11

Same issue with me, I am using google-chrome in AUR.

mysticx

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Registered: 2014-04-15

Posts: 4

Re: Chromium segfaults and hangs all X11

Disabling hardware acceleration seems to have solved the GPU errors caused by chromium.
Still having problems after resuming from standby, but it now seems unrelated to the chromium issue.

Pse

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Registered: 2008-03-15

Posts: 415

Re: Chromium segfaults and hangs all X11

It seems you are hitting this bug (freeze after resume from suspend): https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184845