Chromium "Aw, Snap!" on certain websites, only on Arch (also Firefox)

john_h · 2014-06-23 19:55:49

For a few months I've been unable to load pages from the Guardian website's new beta version when using Chromium on Arch Linux. The page starts to load, but then I get an "Aw, Snap!"

A random sample: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 … rosceptics

I've reported it to both the Guardian devs and upstream, neither of whom could reproduce on other Linux flavours, so it looks like it may be specific to Arch. It happens on more than one machine I have running Arch (so doesn't seem to be related to my specific hardware), and on clean installations of Chromium with no plugins. So far I've only encountered the problem on the new Guardian site, so I assume that some piece of code on there is not playing nicely with Arch's version of Chromium.

Arch's version of Chromium appears to have disabled crash reporting in Chromium, and also seems to lack debugging symbols for gdb, so the only information I've managed to get to date is from dmesg, which says:

chromium[1856]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f3b0c12a60e sp 00007fff86e66640 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[7f3b0c0a5000+1a4000]

I last updated everything yesterday, but the problem has been going on for months now across different versions of both Chromium and everything else.

Can anyone else reproduce this? Any ideas on what the cause might be? Any other information it would be useful for me to provide?

Edit: Turns out the same site is making Firefox crash, too, which suggests it's something elsewhere in the desktop environment. Still baffled.

Last edited by john_h (2014-06-23 20:58:41)

fungle · 2014-06-24 04:46:53

That link seems to work for me. I have Chromium 35.0.1916.153-1 installed. Have you tried disabling javascript? Is firefox also spitting out the same error message in your logs?

Last edited by fungle (2014-06-24 04:48:46)

ewaller · 2014-06-24 05:04:09

I happen to be running chromium today. That link works just fine here.

ewaller$@$odin ~ 1001 %uname -a
Linux odin 3.15.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 17 09:32:20 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ewaller$@$odin ~ 1002 %pacman -Qi chromium
Name           : chromium
Version        : 35.0.1916.153-1
Description    : The open-source project behind Google Chrome, an
                 attempt at creating a safer, faster, and more
                 stable browser
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.chromium.org/
Licenses       : BSD
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : gtk2  nss  alsa-lib  xdg-utils  bzip2  libevent
                 libxss  libgcrypt  ttf-font  systemd  dbus  flac
                 snappy  speech-dispatcher  pciutils  libpulse
                 harfbuzz  desktop-file-utils  hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps  : kdebase-kdialog: needed for file dialogs in KDE
                 gnome-keyring: for storing passwords in GNOME
                 keyring [installed]
                 libgnome-keyring: for storing passwords in GNOME
                 keyring [installed]
                 kdeutils-kwalletmanager: for storing passwords in
                 KWallet
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 149602.00 KiB
Packager       : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date     : Tue Jun 10 21:35:28 2014
Install Date   : Thu Jun 19 19:46:58 2014
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

ewaller$@$odin ~ 1003 %

WM = i3 with compton

R00KIE · 2014-06-24 08:16:30

Works fine for me too.

> pacman -Q firefox chromium
firefox 30.0-1
chromium 35.0.1916.153-1

I would try disabling flash and try the page again, can't remember of anything else that may be the problem.

john_h · 2014-06-24 20:35:18

Thanks for this feedback. Just to double-check: have you clicked the link at the top of the page for the beta version of Guardian site? Should look like the screenshot I've posted here: http://imgur.com/hxSQtuD

llv.mech · 2014-06-24 20:42:59

Works fine for me also
chromium 35.0.1916.153-1

fungle · 2014-06-24 20:51:37

john_h wrote:

Thanks for this feedback. Just to double-check: have you clicked the link at the top of the page for the beta version of Guardian site? Should look like the screenshot I've posted here: http://imgur.com/hxSQtuD

Well now that you mention that....
It also seems to work for me, in fact, it seems to work faster. I decided to browse around and the new beta site definitely feels snappier and more responsive than the old one.

R00KIE · 2014-06-24 20:53:37

john_h wrote:

Thanks for this feedback. Just to double-check: have you clicked the link at the top of the page for the beta version of Guardian site? Should look like the screenshot I've posted here: http://imgur.com/hxSQtuD

First time no, but result is the same, beta version works fine here with firefox and chromium.

john_h · 2014-06-24 20:58:33

Thank you - that's very helpful. Even if it does leave the mystery unresolved, I now know one more place where the problem doesn't lie...

clfarron4 · 2014-06-24 21:09:29

Works fine here on both Firefox and Chromium here:

claire ~ % uname -a
Linux claire 3.14.8-1-lqx #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 23 13:20:08 BST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
claire ~ % pacman -Qi chromium
Name           : chromium
Version        : 35.0.1916.153-1
Description    : The open-source project behind Google Chrome, an attempt at
                 creating a safer, faster, and more stable browser
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.chromium.org/
Licences       : BSD
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : gtk2  nss  alsa-lib  xdg-utils  bzip2  libevent  libxss
                 libgcrypt  ttf-font  systemd  dbus  flac  snappy
                 speech-dispatcher  pciutils  libpulse  harfbuzz
                 desktop-file-utils  hicolor-icon-theme
Optional Deps  : kdebase-kdialog: needed for file dialogs in KDE
                 gnome-keyring: for storing passwords in GNOME keyring
                 [installed]
                 libgnome-keyring: for storing passwords in GNOME keyring
                 [installed]
                 kdeutils-kwalletmanager: for storing passwords in KWallet
Required By    : chromium-pepper-flash
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 149602.00 KiB
Packager       : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date     : Wed 11 Jun 2014 05:35:28 BST
Install Date   : Wed 11 Jun 2014 19:33:51 BST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature
claire ~ % pacman -Qi firefox
Name           : firefox
Version        : 30.0-1
Description    : Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Licences       : MPL  GPL  LGPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : gtk2  mozilla-common  libxt  startup-notification  mime-types
                 dbus-glib  alsa-lib  desktop-file-utils  hicolor-icon-theme
                 libvpx  icu  libevent  nss  hunspell  sqlite
Optional Deps  : networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks
                 [installed]
                 gst-plugins-good: h.264 video [installed]
                 gst-libav: h.264 video [installed]
                 libpulse: PulseAudio audio driver [installed]
Required By    : None
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 76195.00 KiB
Packager       : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date     : Wed 11 Jun 2014 09:06:06 BST
Install Date   : Wed 11 Jun 2014 13:25:36 BST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

john_h · 2014-06-24 21:18:14

Thanks for this. I tried disabling JavaScript and the page loaded fine (except for the JavaScript-dependent elements of course). All very strange…

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#1 2014-06-23 19:55:49

Chromium "Aw, Snap!" on certain websites, only on Arch (also Firefox)

#2 2014-06-24 04:46:53

Re: Chromium "Aw, Snap!" on certain websites, only on Arch (also Firefox)

#3 2014-06-24 05:04:09

Re: Chromium "Aw, Snap!" on certain websites, only on Arch (also Firefox)

#4 2014-06-24 08:16:30

Re: Chromium "Aw, Snap!" on certain websites, only on Arch (also Firefox)

#5 2014-06-24 20:35:18

Re: Chromium "Aw, Snap!" on certain websites, only on Arch (also Firefox)

#6 2014-06-24 20:42:59

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#7 2014-06-24 20:51:37

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