chrome and chromium crashing every minute

[Adam Weremczuk]

Hi all,

My system info:

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 4.4.0-170-generic #199-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 14 01:45:04 UTC 
2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS

$ dpkg -l | grep -i chrome
ii  chrome-gnome-shell 9-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.3 all          GNOME Shell 
extensions integration for web browsers
ii  chromium-browser 79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 amd64        Chromium 
web browser, open-source version of Chrome
ii  google-chrome-stable 79.0.3945.88-1 amd64        The web browser 
from Google

My errors:

Dec 19 10:56:32 ubuntu chromium-browser.desktop[5181]: 
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:(tg)kill() 
failure
Dec 19 10:56:32 ubuntu kernel: [  387.726455] VizCompositorTh[6627]: 
segfault at 9dc ip 000055b5b7d395b6 sp 00007efde7ffcf40 error 6 in 
chromium-browser[55b5b2b96000+9174000]
Dec 19 10:56:32 ubuntu chromium-browser.desktop[5181]: 
[5181:5205:1219/105632.381276:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(990)] 
The display compositor is frequently crashing. Goodbye.
Dec 19 10:56:32 ubuntu kernel: [  387.859687] traps: 
Chrome_IOThread[5205] trap int3 ip:55cf87ed9c98 sp:7ff350cc5880 error:0

Dec 19 10:56:32 ubuntu google-chrome.desktop[4735]: 
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:(tg)kill() 
failure
Dec 19 10:56:32 ubuntu kernel: [  388.004152] VizCompositorTh[5440]: 
segfault at 539 ip 0000564dac5ef5d6 sp 00007f3a4d866f00 error 6 in 
chrome[564da84ac000+7170000]
Dec 19 10:56:32 ubuntu google-chrome.desktop[4735]: 
[6697:6697:1219/105632.741548:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(450)] 
ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for 
virtualization.

Dec 19 10:57:52 ubuntu google-chrome.desktop[4735]: 
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:(tg)kill() 
failure
Dec 19 10:57:52 ubuntu kernel: [  467.937280] VizCompositorTh[6705]: 
segfault at a29 ip 0000555d2e7925d6 sp 00007f3f5e058f00 error 6 in 
chrome[555d2a64f000+7170000]
Dec 19 10:57:52 ubuntu google-chrome.desktop[4735]: 
[6757:6757:1219/105752.681148:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(450)] 
ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for 
virtualization.

I've tried updating and reinstalling but the problem persists.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Adam