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Bug 589768 - www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82 starts and exits fine, but all url's bring up an 'Aw Snap!' page.
Summary: www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82 starts and exits fine, but all url's bring u...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Chromium Project
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Reported: 2016-07-26 19:36 UTC by mjbjr
Modified: 2016-08-20 12:00 UTC (History)
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Description mjbjr 2016-07-26 19:36:28 UTC
chromium-52.0.2743.82 emerged fine

chromium starts fine, brings up the menu fine, and exits fine, but any url results in no page being displayed, including internal pages (i.e., Settings) and hitting the new tab button, all bring up an 'Aw Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this web page.' page, which shows the url as 'https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95669?p=e_awsnap_rl&rd=1'.

'https://support.google.com/' brings up the 'Aw Snap!' page, but does NOT change the address.  ditto for 'https://www.google.com/'

using 'https://www.mozilla.org/' brings up an 'Aw Snap!' page, but does NOT change the address.

inet search showed that possibly starting with '--no-sandbox' might work, but resulted in no changes for me.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 mjbjr 2016-07-26 19:37:53 UTC
emerge --info

Portage 2.2.26 (python 3.4.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r2, 4.1.12-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.1.12-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4820K_CPU_@_3.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    32886772 total,  11064756 free
KiB Swap:   15999996 total,  15999324 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:45:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p42-r1
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p42-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.20.2::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.3.1-r1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.19.1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.9.3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.21-r2::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: webrsync
    sync-uri: "rsync.us.gentoo.org"
    priority: -1000

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--exclude gentoo-sources"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync webrsync-gpg xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"
USE="X acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri exif fortran gdbm gtk3 hpn iconv ipv6 jpeg mmx mmxext modules mp3 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl opengl openmp pam pcre pie png postgres ppds readline seccomp session sse sse2 sse3 ssl tcpd tiff unicode wav xattr zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" 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 ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="amdgpu fbdev intel nouveau radeon radeonsi vesa dummy v4l" 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:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2016-07-26 19:47:19 UTC
Please run chromium from a terminal and check for any terminal output.

Also look for any messages in the kernel log (dmesg).
Comment 3 mjbjr 2016-07-26 21:10:05 UTC
starting from terminal...

localhost ~ $ chromium
[32153:32153:0726/135321:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(343)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process. 
Received signal 8 FPE_INTDIV 7f780f5f0e7f
#0 0x55860ed119be <unknown>
#1 0x55860ed11d7b <unknown>
#2 0x7f780aa72680 <unknown>
#3 0x7f780f5f0e7f <unknown>
#4 0x7f780f612ec2 <unknown>
#5 0x7f780f5f52aa hb_shape_plan_execute
#6 0x7f780f5f47b7 hb_shape_full
#7 0x558613118efa <unknown>
#8 0x558613111878 <unknown>
#9 0x558613112fbb <unknown>
#10 0x55861310902a <unknown>
...
#58 0x558610a7fe9c <unknown>
#59 0x558610a7ed9b <unknown>
#60 0x55861060f178 <unknown>
#61 0x55861060f348 <unknown>
  r8: 00001c2775a0ac30  r9: 0000000000000000 r10: 00007f780f83d540 r11: 00000000000001c0
 r12: 00001c2775a0ad00 r13: 00007fff60045528 r14: 00001c2775a0ad00 r15: 00007fff6004552c
  di: 0000000000000000  si: 00000000000cc000  bp: 00007fff60045528  bx: 00007fff6004552c
  dx: 0000000000000000  ax: 0000000000000000  cx: 0000000000000001  sp: 00007fff600454b0
  ip: 00007f780f5f0e7f efl: 0000000000010206 cgf: 0000000000000033 erf: 0000000000000000
 trp: 0000000000000000 msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000
[end of stack trace]
Received signal 8 FPE_INTDIV 7f780f5f0e7f
#0 0x55860ed119be <unknown>
#1 0x55860ed11d7b <unknown>
#2 0x7f780aa72680 <unknown>
#3 0x7f780f5f0e7f <unknown>
#4 0x7f780f612ec2 <unknown>
#5 0x7f780f5f52aa hb_shape_plan_execute
#6 0x7f780f5f47b7 hb_shape_full
#7 0x558613118efa <unknown>
#8 0x558613111878 <unknown>
#9 0x558613112fbb <unknown>
#10 0x55861310902a <unknown>
#11 0x5586131090fd <unknown>
#12 0x558610eab09e <unknown>
...
#57 0x558610ee8117 <unknown>
#58 0x558610a7fe9c <unknown>
#59 0x558610a7ed9b <unknown>
#60 0x558610a81967 <unknown>
#61 0x558610a81a1c <unknown>
  r8: 00001c2775a52b60  r9: 0000000000000000 r10: 00007f780f83d540 r11: 0000000000000000
 r12: 00001c2775a52c30 r13: 00007fff60046ec8 r14: 00001c2775a52c30 r15: 00007fff60046ecc
  di: 0000000000000000  si: 00000000002a0000  bp: 00007fff60046ec8  bx: 00007fff60046ecc
  dx: 0000000000000000  ax: 0000000000000000  cx: 0000000000000001  sp: 00007fff60046e50
  ip: 00007f780f5f0e7f efl: 0000000000010206 cgf: 0000000000000033 erf: 0000000000000000
 trp: 0000000000000000 msk: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000
[end of stack trace]


### hitting a page link results in repeating of data between one
"[end of stack trace]" and the next "[end of stack trace]"

### clean exit here results in no further terminal output


neither 'dmesg' output, nor '/var/log/messages' have info in regards to chromium starting, running, nor exiting.

the network connection to the internet runs fine.
Comment 4 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2016-07-26 21:43:02 UTC
> Received signal 8 FPE_INTDIV 7f780f5f0e7f

Ok, so something is dividing an integer by zero.

Can you rebuild chromium and glibc with -ggdb in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS? Also set FEATURES=splitdebug in make.conf.

Then retry the test and see if we get something nicer than <unknown> in the stack trace.
Comment 5 mjbjr 2016-07-27 01:22:08 UTC
If I add "-ggdb in CFLAGS" 'emerge chromium' barfs with:

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests
>>> Running pre-merge checks for www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82
 * Checking for at least 3 GiB RAM ...                                                                                                                                                   [ ok ]
 * Checking for at least 25 GiB disk space at "/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/temp" ...                                                                                   [ !! ]
 * There is NOT at least 25 GiB disk space at "/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/temp"
 * 
 * Space constraints set in the ebuild were not met!
 * The build will most probably fail, you should enhance the space
 * as per failed tests.
 * 
 * ERROR: www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82::gentoo failed (pretend phase):
 *   Build requirements not met!
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *                      ebuild.sh, line 133:  Called pkg_pretend
 *   chromium-52.0.2743.82.ebuild, line 171:  Called check-reqs_pkg_pretend
 *              check-reqs.eclass, line 109:  Called check-reqs_pkg_setup
 *              check-reqs.eclass, line 100:  Called check-reqs_output
 *              check-reqs.eclass, line 256:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   		[[ ${EBUILD_PHASE} == "pretend" && -z ${I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING} ]] && \
 *   			die "Build requirements not met!"
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82::gentoo'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82::gentoo'`.
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/www-client:chromium-52.0.2743.82:20160727-011216.log'.
 * For convenience, a symlink to the build log is located at '/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/temp/die.env'.
 * Working directory: '/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages'
 * S: '/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/work/chromium-52.0.2743.82'

 * Messages for package www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82:

 * There is NOT at least 25 GiB disk space at "/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/temp"
 * 
 * Space constraints set in the ebuild were not met!
 * The build will most probably fail, you should enhance the space
 * as per failed tests.
 * 
 * ERROR: www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82::gentoo failed (pretend phase):
 *   Build requirements not met!
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *                      ebuild.sh, line 133:  Called pkg_pretend
 *   chromium-52.0.2743.82.ebuild, line 171:  Called check-reqs_pkg_pretend
 *              check-reqs.eclass, line 109:  Called check-reqs_pkg_setup
 *              check-reqs.eclass, line 100:  Called check-reqs_output
 *              check-reqs.eclass, line 256:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *   		[[ ${EBUILD_PHASE} == "pretend" && -z ${I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING} ]] && \
 *   			die "Build requirements not met!"
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82::gentoo'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82::gentoo'`.
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/www-client:chromium-52.0.2743.82:20160727-011216.log'.
 * For convenience, a symlink to the build log is located at '/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/temp/die.env'.
 * Working directory: '/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages'
 * S: '/tmp/portage/www-client/chromium-52.0.2743.82/work/chromium-52.0.2743.82'


root is '/dev/sdd4'

localhost tmp # df -h /dev/sdd4
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd4       220G   29G  180G  14% /

localhost tmp # df -h /tmp
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs           6.0G   19M  6.0G   1% /tmp

I'm not sure how to get /tmp more memory.

'top' shows

top - 18:20:56 up 27 days,  2:48,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.05
Tasks: 192 total,   1 running, 191 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  0.2 us,  0.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 99.8 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem : 32886772 total, 10963472 free,  2457292 used, 19466008 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 15999996 total, 15999336 free,      660 used. 30124660 avail Mem 

thanks for your help
Comment 6 mjbjr 2016-07-27 02:02:51 UTC
additionally, now hours later, I'm getting system beeps and /var/log/messages shows:
Jul 26 19:45:02 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14607]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f21152fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:45:02 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14612]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f3a798fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:45:02 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14615]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007ff4308fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:45:03 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14621]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f07ba6fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:27 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14671]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f2628afe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:27 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14677]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f695e4fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:27 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14680]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f4bf16fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:27 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14683]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007fc7570fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:27 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14688]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007fb61c9fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:28 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14692]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f28d78fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:28 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14695]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f7265ffe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:28 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14698]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f3132dfe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:29 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14701]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007fdcc8efe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:46:29 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14704]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007fad76ffe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 18:50:01 localhost CROND[14776]: (root) CMD ([ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && { test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ; })
Jul 26 19:53:45 localhost kernel: show_signal_msg: 3 callbacks suppressed
Jul 26 19:53:45 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14985]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f6ec20fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:45 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14990]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f03408fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:45 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14994]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f172c8fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:46 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[14997]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007fdbd0afe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:46 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[15000]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f5edb4fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:46 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[15003]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f91d96fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:46 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[15006]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007f3a4b9fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:47 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[15009]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007fbc5d7fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:47 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[15012]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007efcdbffe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]
Jul 26 19:53:47 localhost kernel: Chrome_ChildThr[15015]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000004087b8 sp 00007fb5e53fe5a0 error 6 in plugin-container[400000+3e000]

though:

localhost ~ # ps aux | grep -i chromium
root     14832  0.0  0.0  10808  2132 pts/1    S+   18:51   0:00 grep --colour=auto -i chromium
localhost ~ # ps aux | grep -i chrome
root     14837  0.0  0.0  10808  2060 pts/1    S+   18:51   0:00 grep --colour=auto -i chrome
localhost ~ # ps aux | grep -i chrom
root     14841  0.0  0.0  10808  2116 pts/1    S+   18:51   0:00 grep --colour=auto -i chrom
localhost ~ # ps aux | grep -i Chrom
root     14848  0.0  0.0  10808  2248 pts/1    S+   18:51   0:00 grep --colour=auto -i Chrom
localhost ~ # ps aux | grep -i Chrome
root     14852  0.0  0.0  10808  2236 pts/1    S+   18:51   0:00 grep --colour=auto -i Chrome
localhost ~ # ps aux | grep -i plugin-container
root     15260  0.0  0.0  10808  2236 pts/1    S+   19:02   0:00 grep --colour=auto -i plugin-container


and a manual look see of 'ps' shows nothing related to any of the above.
Comment 7 mjbjr 2016-07-27 02:04:36 UTC
an additional add to that last comment by me...

chromium has not been running since I initially started this thread.
Comment 8 mjbjr 2016-07-27 07:32:00 UTC
eventually, the system beeps and msgs went from every twenty minutes or so, to continuous, logged out and backin, nothing since.

I installed this gentoo system on an SSD and the smallish size of /tmp is part of the gentoo install to avoid portage writes burning up SSD writes over time.

This is going to take a rethink.

Ideas?

Thank you for your help.
Comment 9 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2016-07-27 15:33:53 UTC
Sorry, but there's not much we can look at if you can't compile a debug build. You could try setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a path on a larger filesystem. A 64 GB USB flash drive should be large enough if you don't want to incur writes on your SSD.

Another idea: can you reproduce the problem in www-client/google-chrome? If so, you should be able to get a crash ID and report a bug uptream (https://crbug.com/).
Comment 10 mjbjr 2016-07-28 07:55:04 UTC
(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #9)
> Sorry, but there's not much we can look at if you can't compile a debug
> build. You could try setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR to a path on a larger
> filesystem. A 64 GB USB flash drive should be large enough if you don't want
> to incur writes on your SSD.
> 
> Another idea: can you reproduce the problem in www-client/google-chrome? If
> so, you should be able to get a crash ID and report a bug uptream
> (https://crbug.com/).

Understood.

Thanks for the idea to use PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Appreciated.
Comment 11 mjbjr 2016-07-29 04:02:14 UTC
so, generally, over the years chromium has pretty much "just worked", though I really only use it only for accessing and working with my various google accounts and apps... so this was all a bit out of character...

before jumping into the whole PORTAGE_TMPDIR thing, I thought I'd do an update @world, which I did with the same environment as before (no make.conf changes that have been suggested in this thread), and now, chromium-52.0.2743.82 works normally.

hmmm...

sorry, not really helpful, blah, blah, blah

I'm going to call it "case closed."

thank you for your help and suggestions, I appreciate it.