Google Chrome 44.0.2403.89-1 crashes Ubuntu
This morning appeared update message so I upgraded version 43.0.2357.134-1 to 44.0.2403.89-1 and happens to any of the following: By opening and loading chrome ubuntu crashes. By right-clicking the menu appears in black and Ubuntu crashes. Opening any menu, submenus may appear in black and then Ubuntu crashes. Uninstall the program and installed it again but the problem persists.
A colleague at work experienced this today and wasn’t sure if it was due to the Chrome update. Then I used apt-get on my machine to upgrade from Chrome 43 to 44, which promptly produced the same symptoms: black context menus and, within 10 seconds, the machine locked up. After ten minutes I powered it off, restarted and installed Chromium 43 as a fallback. Amazed that such a serious problem has passed testing unnoticed.
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normal user prompt I typed
it worked and context menu showing up normal. Also under system chrome settings uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available option
This is the best answer to actually resolve the issue. Other answers are either reverting Chrome to a previous version, or swapping video driver. The issue appears to be that Chrome now no longer disables GPU acceleration when Nouveau is being used, but using it is still unstable. Hence, disable on command-line chromium-browser —disable-gpu if you use Chromium.
SOLVED: During the upgrade apparently the X Server configuration (X.Org) was changed to the nouveau driver. Just change it to proprietary controller and Google Chrome stopped giving problems . Thank you all for your responses. Regards.
In Ubuntu 14.04, I clicked on System Settings > Software & Updates > Additional Drivers and then clicked on an alternative to X.Org X server — Nouveau display driver.
Had the same issue as the original poster. Here’s what I did:
- Copy-pasted my google-chrome directory in /home/[username]/.config/google-chrome , just in case.
- Removed Google Chrome stable via Synaptic.
- Downloaded the previous version of Google Chrome from http://mirror.pcbeta.com/google/chrome/deb/pool/main/g/google-chrome-stable/ and installed via Ubuntu Software Center.
Have not had an issue since. Alternatively, I’ve seen some recommendations in situations like this to remove the stable package via Apt/Synaptic, purge the .config folder and then install it as if it were new. Either way, it’s a lot of new log-ins and verification codes (if you have two-step verification) regardless.
So far so good for me. I hope this works for you.
A temporary fix that that seems to have worked for me is running the following from the command line:
Note that you can’t disable hardware acceleration using chrome://flags in the url bar, as it will crash once you do that!
Based on Abraham Lopez’ answer I did the following:
Result (take a look at the second last line @ configuration ):
*-display description: VGA compatible controller product: GF108GL [Quadro 600] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0 resources: irq:59 memory:f9000000-f9ffffff memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:ee000000-efffffff ioport:9f00(size=128) memory:e8000000-e807ffff sudo apt-get --purge remove xserver-xorg-video-nouveau sudo apt-get install nvidia-331 nvidia-331-updates -f After a reboot, I ran sudo lshw -C video again:
*-display description: VGA compatible controller product: GF108GL [Quadro 600] vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 resources: irq:59 memory:f9000000-f9ffffff memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:ee000000-efffffff ioport:9f00(size=128) memory:e8000000-e807ffff This answer has been written on Chrome 44.0.2403.125 which and it apparently didn’t crash.
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Google Chrome Crashes Ubuntu
Google Chrome Crashes UbuntuI’ve been having problems lately when using Google Chrome (NOT Chromium). And, just so you know, I would really like to not have to use Firefox — I like having everything synced across multiple platforms and installs. Now that that’s out of the way.
My problem doesn’t seem to be dependent on how many tabs I have open, nor what I am doing. It seems to happen when I click on a link and a tab is loading, but again, it is independent to whatever’s on the page — be it a video, a forum post, or a webcomic.
Basically, my entire system crashes. Not just X, where I’ve seen other cases where people are sent back to the log on screen; but a full-on crash. Sometimes, the screen goes to black, comes back, and locks up. Other times, sound loops and then finally, the system crashes altogether (monitor loses signal).
I’ve asked in multiple forums and multiple topics without help. As I use Google Docs for all my homework, I need assistance right away, if possible.
If you need any logs or output of any commands, just ask.
Let me know if I’m being too technical — or not technical enough!
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Chrome suddenly crashing just after starting
Having used Chrome for years, it suddenly started failing to open. It gets as far as the opening screen with the Restore? box showing. Whatever I do after a few seconds it shuts down. No error message. I have removed and reinstalled a couple of times without success. So I ran it in Terminal and get this:
[15881:15925:0521/085530.794880:ERROR:login_database.cc(641)] Password store database is too new, kCurrentVersionNumber=28, GetCompatibleVersionNumber=29 [15881:15925:0521/085530.795041:ERROR:password_store_default.cc(39)] Could not create/open login database. [15916:15916:0521/085530.907906:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process. [15881:15909:0521/085531.061833:ERROR:login_database.cc(641)] Password store database is too new, kCurrentVersionNumber=28, GetCompatibleVersionNumber=29 [15881:15909:0521/085531.061921:ERROR:password_store_default.cc(39)] Could not create/open login database. --2021-05-21 08:55:31-- https://clients2.google.com/cr/report Resolving clients2.google.com (clients2.google.com). 142.250.187.206, 2a00:1450:4009:81f::200e Connecting to clients2.google.com (clients2.google.com)|142.250.187.206|:443. connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response. 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/plain] Saving to: ‘/dev/fd/4’ Crash dump id: 392a58148f3f9f5d 0K --2021-05-21 08:55:32-- https://clients2.google.com/cr/report Resolving clients2.google.com (clients2.google.com). 142.250.187.206, 2a00:1450:4009:81f::200e Connecting to clients2.google.com (clients2.google.com)|142.250.187.206|:443. connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response. 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/plain] Saving to: ‘/dev/fd/4’ 0K Crash dump id: aa4059a5adb3a524 Illegal instruction (core dumped) I can’t understand what has changed since yesterday. I did install Guayadeque, but can’t see how that would affect it.
Google Chrome frequently and randomly crashing?
Has anyone else had trouble with Chrome crashing randomly and frequently? Just now I was looking at the screen reading something and it just crashed. It didn’t freeze or anything, just disappeared. I haven’t noticed anything making it any more or less stable. I looked around the interwebs and wasn’t able to see anyone else having this problem. Version 75.0.3770.80 (Official Build) (64-bit) Ubuntu 19.04 Thank you!
Do you mean chromium-browser (or Chrome)? How come you’re on 75.0? For chromium-browser, even Ubuntu 19.10 is only up 74.0.3729.169-0ubuntu2 . Chromium has never crashed on me (knock on wood. ). But perhaps you can try deleting any settings and uninstalling any add-ons?
Hello! No I just have Chrome not Chromium, when I downloaded Ubuntu I went to chrome.google.com and it had a deb installer for Linux. Anytime it has an update, I update it. I copy/pasted the text from within the browser settings.
If you go to the Chrome website and hit download, it has a popup that says, Download Chrome for Linux Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE. Please select your download package: 64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu) 64 bit .rpm (For Fedora/openSUSE)
Why don’t you try chromium? Install the package chromium-browser . It is an open-source version of Chrome. Having said that, I think you might want to remove any settings and add-ons, like I suggested and start from there. Then add add-ons back one-by-one.
I will try that, thank you! I thought Chrome would be more stable than Chromium but it’s not like I have anything to lose, haha. I noticed today a new program my work uses (ZenDesk Chat) causes it to crash a lot more than normal.
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Just to clarify, the base project is Chromium, Google use this as the base, for the Google Chrome browser, so if the bug is in Chromium, it is likely in Google Chrome as well.
Google released a new version 75.0.3770.100, it feels a little better, but still suffers the same problems, can’t say I looked at the release notes to see if they had fixed it, not even sure I’d be able to identify the issue anyway. This has basically meant I have not been able to use either browser in the last few weeks, luckily I can use Firefox and therefore have been, but for work, testing in Chromium or Chrome has been a nightmare.
Thank you for your feedback! I think it could be caused by the extensions so I’ve gone down to the bare minimum. I use Chromium for personal and Chrome for work, and I can’t tell a difference between the two as far as stability is concerned. Oh well, it’s a work in progress.
I’m running eset anti-virus software and have found that if I kill all eset processes then Chrome stops crashing. In other threads I’ve seen mention of simply disabling ‘real time file protection’ but that did not work for me. I’ve no idea if the problem is in Eset or Chrome (or Chromium, which also has the same problem) and I’ve found the problem in versions of chrome since 79.0.3945.88-1 and the previous version plus later versions 80.0.3987.16-1 and 81.0.4000.3-1.
Interestingly one of the symptoms is that you see the webpage flash several times as you move about the webpage and after a few minutes Chrome or Chromium crashes. Looking at the console output each flash corresponds with a crash being reported then sometimes prior to the crash an invalid opcode.
As to whether it’s a bug in eset or chrome I’ve no idea at present.
I’m running KDE Neon (Ubuntu 18.04LTS). The problem for me started at the beginning of December 2019 after an update.