Bug 440870 – www-client/chromium-22.0.1229.94 with dev-lang/v8-3.13.7.4: Renderer crashes in v8::internal::String::WriteToFlat<unsigned short>

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2012-11-01 23:56:53 UTC]

When starting Chromium (or Google Chrome) then two of my pinned tabs crash immediately, for example, one of them is Google News. While I couldn't capture this, I've managed to capture another problem I was experiencing which might or might not be relevant. Namely, when I go to the extensions tab and then on that tab scroll down that tab crashes immediately. A last problem that also occurred together with the others is that I can't click on things that would cause in-page popups or dropdown menus. I've got these bugs together after updating my world, so that makes me feel the cause must be in code they both share.

It should be noted that this bug is about the tab crash when scrolling down on the extensions page (the one under Tools), since that's the only stack trace I managed to capture. I have provided the other bugs for reference.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Wrench --> Tools --> Extensions.
2. Scroll down.
Actual Results:  
Tab crashes.

Expected Results:  
Being able to manage more extensions than just the top ones, I don't want to have my tabs crash.

[Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2012-11-01 23:58:29 UTC]

Created attachment 328006 [details]
emerge --info

Too long for the additional comments field, hence it's an attachment.

[Comment 2 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2012-11-01 23:59:27 UTC]

Created attachment 328008 [details]
gdb stack trace of the renderer process that crashed.

[Comment 3 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2012-11-02 00:01:54 UTC]

Similar upstream bug at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143240

[Comment 4 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2012-11-06 01:58:36 UTC]

Still happens on chromium 24.0.1312.2 with v8 3.14.5. Guess I'll just need to wait for upstream to fix the bug in the URL field, current milestone for that bug is 25. Changing this bug accordingly, if it takes too much milestones I'll revisit the upstream bug and this bug to see what we can do to progress...

[Comment 5 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-01-26 15:03:23 UTC]

I've resolved this by recompiling all -Ofast packages with -O2.