Chromium

[Colin Law]

On 13 October 2012 14:23, Freddy Van Ingelgom <freddyek at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2012/10/13 Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
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>> On 13 October 2012 13:52, Freddy Van Ingelgom <freddyek at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > 2012/10/13 Freddy Van Ingelgom <freddyek at gmail.com>
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>> >> 2012/10/13 Mark Widdicombe <markwiddicombe at gmail.com>
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>> >>> On 13 October 2012 13:11, Freddy Van Ingelgom <freddyek at gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi,
>> >>> > Is there someone who can run Chrome or Chromium under Ubuntu 12.04
>> >>> > with all
>> >>> > latest updates?
>> >>> > I could run Chromium some time ago, but since a while, starting
>> >>> > chromium
>> >>> > gives a segmentation fault.
>> >>> > Is there a solution ? I googled a lot but could not find a way to a
>> >>> > solution!
>> >>> > Thanks!
>> >>> > Freddy
>> >>> >
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>> >>> I run it without any problems.  Version 20.0.1132.47 Ubuntu 12.04
>> >>> (144678)
>> >>>
>> >> Do you mean Chrome (downloaded from Google) or Chromium from the Ubuntu
>> >> depositories?
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>> > The version number refers to Chromium I just found out.
>> > Strange, as I tried on different computers here all installed with
>> > Ubuntu 12.04 with the latest updates, and I get this segmentation fault on
>> > each of them!
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>> How did you install it and how are you running it?  Please be exact in
>> your answer, there is much confusion over the different versions of
>> chromium, google-chrome, etc.
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>> Colin
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> The version I have currently on this computer I installed after this
> command:
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> apt-get update
> apt-get remove --purge chromium-browser
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> and then:
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> apt-get install chromium-browser
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> I started chromium from a terminal and got the message "segmentation fault
> (core dumped)" I added the ""

A search on launchpad yields
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1054557
which looks likely to be it.

Colin