(First off, apologies in advance for the narrative-style report here. Not sure how to better get the information across in a more terse manner.) I've been using the portage-built Chromium for quite some time now. A couple months ago when it updated from Chrome 22 to 23, it started noticeably crashing a lot. Extensions would crash on startup and need to be restarted (Adblock would just go into a crash loop), and tabs would crash often, seemingly randomly (major culprits seemed to be google.com, gmail.com, and facebook.com, though maybe that's just due to frequency of use). I didn't notice any similar behavior on MacOS on the same hardware, and assumed this was just overall poor test coverage on Linux on Google's part. Today I tried to install the pre-compiled www-client/google-chrome binaries. (The ebuild is actually broken wrt to SRC_URI, but that's another bug.) I downloaded the .deb manually (version 24.0.1290.1), and manually unpacked in /opt/. With www-client/chromium *not* running, I symlinked ~/.config/chromium/ to ~/.config/google-chrome/ so I'd be using the same profile. Started up the precompiled version of Chrome, and now everything's fine. All extensions work, and no random tab crashes. (Oh, and I've also tried a fresh profile with the portage-compiled Chromium with the same crashy results.) I'm not sure exactly what information I can provide to help track this down. Any pointers as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated. My emerge --info: Portage 2.1.11.26 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.6.0-rc7+ x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.6.0-rc7+-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2677M_CPU_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:30:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] ccache version 3.1.8 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.10.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6, 1.12.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22.90 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.5 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r2 Repositories: gentoo local x11 ruby seden desktop-effects ROKO__ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -g -pipe -march=native -mtune=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -pipe -march=native -mtune=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distcc distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -g" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/ruby /var/lib/layman/seden /var/lib/layman/desktop-effects /var/lib/layman/ROKO__" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apng archive autoipd avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cgi chardet cleartype cli connection-sharing consolekit cracklib crypt cscope cups curl cxx dbus device-mapper dhcpcd disk-partition dmraid dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif faac faad fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran fuse g3dvl gallium gd gdbm gdu geoclue gif git glamor gnome-keyring gnutls go gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk3 hal hires-icons hostip iconv icu imagemagick ios ipv6 jingle jpeg kdrive kerberos lame laptop lcms libffi libkms libnotify libsamplerate libsexy llvm mad mdadm mdnsresponder-compat minizip mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses network networkmanager nptl nsplugin objc objc++ ogg opengl openmp pam pam_ssh pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio qt3support readline resolvconf ruby samba scrobbler sdl session skyhook smp sna sndfile sound spell sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4_1 ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification static-libs subversion svg syslog taglib tcpd theora threads tiff timidity tls truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdpau vim vim-syntax vorbis webgl wifi wma wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xfce xinerama xml xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yaml zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="*" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev intel i915 i965 vmware" XFCE_PLUGINS="*" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
bug #436998
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 436998 ***
