Bug 458166 – www-client/chromium-25.0.1364.84 crashes X when opening new tabs

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Joachim Bartosik (RETIRED) 2013-02-18 19:37:11 UTC]

Often but not regularly opening new tab in chromium crashes X (happens every time I start chromium but not every time I open new tab). I didn't notice any problems with other applications.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Joachim Bartosik (RETIRED) 2013-02-18 19:38:03 UTC]

Created attachment 339288 [details]
Xorg log from crash.

[Comment 2 Joachim Bartosik (RETIRED) 2013-02-18 19:39:40 UTC]

Created attachment 339290 [details]
What chromium says when it crashes.

[Comment 3 Joachim Bartosik (RETIRED) 2013-02-18 19:48:47 UTC]

Created attachment 339292 [details]
emerge --info chromium

[Comment 4 Mike Gilbert 2013-02-18 20:07:15 UTC]

I think you had the wrong version in the summary.

FWIW, I have not seen any problem like this on my own system.

[Comment 5 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2013-02-24 19:38:22 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Often but not regularly opening new tab in chromium crashes X (happens every
> time I start chromium but not every time I open new tab). I didn't notice
> any problems with other applications.

Generally no application should be able to crash X11, so the crash is definitely an X11 bug.

Now Chromium may also be doing something weird, but let's see if X11 maintainers have something to say.

[Comment 6 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-02-24 20:48:48 UTC]

Try upgrading pixman to 0.29.2. (You may need to rebuild xf86-video-intel afterwards.) If that doesn't help, http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging explains how to get a proper backtrace from the X server.

Also consider reporting a bug upstream at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

[Comment 7 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2013-03-08 00:11:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> happens every time I start chromium

Please re-open after attaching requested info (e.g. stack traces) - should be easy since you have reliable repro.

[Comment 8 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2013-03-08 01:03:53 UTC]

Note linked issue with nouveau drivers. Looks like intel could have the same issue - or maybe it's just pixman as chithanh@ mentioned.

Either way, it's probably better to keep this open.

[Comment 9 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2013-03-08 01:06:56 UTC]

The backtrace from attachment 339288 [details] does not contain any indication that the issue is mesa related.

[Comment 10 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2013-04-10 22:47:55 UTC]

Joachim, any news here? A symbolized stack trace or test with newer pixman would be very helpful.

[Comment 11 Joachim Bartosik (RETIRED) 2013-04-24 23:48:13 UTC]

Created attachment 346552 [details]
emerge --info pixman

I think I'm using newest pixman (emerge --info pixman attached). I'll give X backtrace tommorow.

[Comment 12 Joachim Bartosik (RETIRED) 2013-04-28 09:46:20 UTC]

I had problems generating backtrace(and now I can't access the machine for some time)I'll provide it in a week.

[Comment 13 Joachim Bartosik (RETIRED) 2013-05-25 15:07:21 UTC]

After my last comment I ran

    emerge -uND

it's been almost a month since then and the problem didn't happen. I guess one of the updates fixed the problem.

[Comment 14 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2013-05-26 02:56:29 UTC]

(In reply to Joachim Bartosik from comment #13)
> it's been almost a month since then and the problem didn't happen. I guess
> one of the updates fixed the problem.

Thanks for reporting back, closing now.