The hangout extension crashes when starting a video chat after updating to chromium-43. System log reveals the following segfault: DecodingThread[14499]: segfault at fffffffc0085bff8 ip 00007fef412576a2 sp 00007fef21532a20 error 5 in libvpx.so.2.0.0[7fef41253000+16b000] Verified that reverting to 42.0.2311.135 (which uses the bundled libvpx) fixes the issue, and so does modifying the chromium-43.0.2357.130 ebuild to use the bundled libvpx. Also chromium-44 appears to be affected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install hangout extension 2. Start video chat 3. Actual Results: Extension crashes ("Aw, snap") after displaying a single frame (on both ends). Expected Results: Streaming video. Tried building media-libs/libvpx-1.4.0 with the following sets of cflags: CPU_FLAGS_X86="avx avx2 mmx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx sse sse2 ssse3 -avx -avx2 -sse3 -sse4_1" with same result.
Enabling the postproc USE-flag of libvpx-1.4.0 is enough to fix the crash.
Thanks for the report! + 29 Jun 2015; Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> chromium-43.0.2357.130.ebuild, + chromium-44.0.2403.30.ebuild: + Depend on libvpx[postproc]. Thanks to Johan Hovold on bug 553502.