[chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

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[chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby Whistler » Mon Dec 05, 2016 4:32 am

Hi,

I did a pacman -Syu today, however the latest chromium package (55.0.2883.75-1) crashes 100% on many sites (such as http://slashdot.org/ ).

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It works well before updating.

Is there anything I can do to fix this (e.g, download & install the old chrome 54 package)?

Hardware: Asus Chromebook C201

Thanks in advance
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby JoeSzymkowicz » Fri Dec 09, 2016 3:41 pm

I noticed this also with 55. Not sure how to debug these Aw, Snap errors.
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby modul » Fri Dec 09, 2016 7:54 pm

Same here.

I've downgraded for now, until it's fixed.

http://tardis.tiny-vps.com/aarm/packages/c/chromium/
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby JoeSzymkowicz » Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:19 pm

This fixed the problem. Thank you very much.

Someone needs to look into 55. I was not even able to signin to my Google account in Chromium.
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby joao » Sat Dec 10, 2016 5:09 pm

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'ve downgraded for now, until it's fixed.

http://tardis.tiny-vps.com/aarm/packages/c/chromium/


Thanks for the link to a previous version!!
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby JoeSzymkowicz » Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:49 pm

Version 55.0.2883.87 continues to have this issue. When I downgraded to 54.0.2840.901, I experience errors with amazon and other secure sites, but I did not experience any Aw Snap errors.
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby haagch » Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:38 am

When you start it from the command line, you see the problem:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Received signal 7 BUS_ADRALN')
Something with invalid address alignment. The stacktrace is useless. But it's probably some compiler problem... again...
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby joao » Wed Dec 21, 2016 6:39 pm

where's the right place to report this, and does anyone know if that's been done?
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby JoeSzymkowicz » Thu Dec 22, 2016 3:59 am

I emailed the address associated with the signature of the package, but I'm not sure if that's the proper thing to do.
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Re: [chromium] latest Chromium packages crashes a lot

Postby flobe » Thu Jan 05, 2017 3:55 am

I've found a workaround in the meantime.

53 and 54 have the certificate transparency problem, and 55 on arch Linux ARM has this memory alignment problem.

To get a working chromium (for all sites), install any version pre-55.x of chromium, old packages can be retrieved from http://tardis.tiny-vps.com/aarm/packages/c/chromium/ . I grabbed chromium-54.0.2840.90-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz

Then upgrade to that version:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo pacman -U chromium-54.0.2840.90-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz')
Then start chromium with the following arguments from command line:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'chromium --variations-server-url=https://clients4.google.com/chrome-variations/seed --fake-variations-channel=stable')
which was provided from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12953172

This enables "Finch", a method of getting flags from google at application startup to dynamically config the browser. This is enabled in google chrome by default and disabled in chromium by default.

You can edit your GUI application launcher for chromium to include these arguments on every launch until a fix is available for 55.

Note that this has some privacy concerns that are mentioned in the thread, i.e. notifying google every time you launch the browser and allowing them to dynamically configure your browser on start, but this is no worse than running google chrome.
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