Chromium update today [Solved]

[DerRoteBlitz]

Hello,

after the Chromium update today the browser stops working or crashes when try to open the first web page.

Starting via terminal gives the following message:
$ chromium
Using PPAPI flash.
[107300118/091705.510157:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.8.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.8.0-3-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel, plank wm: xfwm4 
           dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.3_x64 patito feo October 21  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: N552VX v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: N552VX v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends 
           v: N552VX.206 date: 11/13/2015 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.4 Wh condition: 40.4/48.2 Wh (84%) volts: 14.4/14.4 
           model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Not charging 
           cycles: 40 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-6700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake-S 
           family: 6 model-id: 5E (94) stepping: 3 microcode: D6 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 41599 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 
           5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
           STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
           Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode 
           Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:191b 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:139a 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: intel 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 5120x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 530 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.8 
           compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio 
           vendor: ASUSTeK 100 Series/C230 Series Family driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a170 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-3-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
           chip ID: 8086:24f3 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.1 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 4.57 TiB used: 1.60 TiB (35.1%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM015-2E8174 size: 1.82 TiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: SDM1 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: SanDisk model: SD8SN8U1T001122 size: 953.87 GiB block size: 
           physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 0000 scheme: GPT 
           ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD size: 1.82 TiB 
           block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm 
           serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: MBR 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 951.07 GiB size: 935.14 GiB (98.33%) used: 538.45 GiB (57.6%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 
           ID-2: /boot raw size: 512.0 MiB size: 487.9 MiB (95.30%) used: 356.7 MiB (73.1%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.98 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) 
           cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/dm-1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2000 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/insync.list 
           1: deb http://apt.insync.io/debian buster non-free contrib
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://it.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           2: deb http://it.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster ahs
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list 
           1: deb https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trueconf.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://deb.trueconf.com/debian/ buster non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 278 Uptime: 38m Memory: 31.26 GiB used: 1.28 GiB (4.1%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

Many thanks

[JayM]

Have you enabled the kernel sandbox in MX Tweak? Double-check it and make sure it's still enabled if you'd already enabled it earlier.

[DerRoteBlitz]

Kernel Sandbox was disabled. But enabling and rebooting did not solve the issue.

[DerRoteBlitz]

I de-installed the package "chromium-sandbox" via synaptic. Now Chromium is again working, but I believe that this is not the solution? How to get it up and running?

[DerRoteBlitz]

the issue is here not solved - only delayed... I got some more seconds until Chromium freezes...

[Eadwine Rose]

Closed the other topic, please refer to both topics here.

[j2mcgreg]

the issue is here not solved - only delayed... I got some more seconds until Chromium freezes...

Here are a couple of suggestions from the Linux Mint forum and the Superuser forum:

Scroll down to that last post for the solution:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... %20manager.

Here, the second last post offers the answer:
https://superuser.com/questions/520932/ ... linux-mint

When I did the search using the criteria chromium + freezes + linux, I got 202,000 hits. There are so many things that can cause Chromium to flounder that it's just not viable for regular use.

[Moltke]

after the Chromium update today the browser stops working or crashes when try to open the first web page.

I was having a similar issue, and it turned out to be a bad installation; chromium pkg didn't download properly. After reinstalling the issue went away, it wasn't this (87.0.4280.141) version though but a previous one I was using from Mint since Debian's was stuck at 83. You might try that and see if it helps.

[dolphin_oracle]

I still think users should try disabling hardware acceleration, which is enabled by default now (didn't used to be ).

[DerRoteBlitz]

I still think users should try disabling hardware acceleration, which is enabled by default now (didn't used to be ).

Hi, that solved the issue. Due to the non usable Version I have switched back to version 83 via Synaptic, disabled hardware acceleration, updated again to 87 and it works now.

Thanks