[xubuntu-users] [15.04 64Bit]-"Aw, Snap!" Google Chrome Crashes-AMD Proprietary Display Driver?

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 07:02:12 -0400
Jesse Palser <jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 06/10/2015 06:57 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 06:33:32 -0400
> > Jesse Palser <jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Great O.S. - I use it now on all my computers!
> >>
> >> I have one problem:
> >> I get "Aw, Snap!" crashes periodically in current Google Chrome
> >> stable? I think it is related to the proprietary AMD display driver
> >> which I installed
> >> through Settings/Additional Drivers.
> >>
> >> Running an AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB GDDR5 PCIe graphic card
> >> with Xubuntu 15.04 64Bit "fglx-updates" through Additional Drivers.
> >>
> >> The computer is 100% stable other than then Google Chrome "Aw,
> >> Snap!" crashes.
> >> Anyone know how to fix this, thanks!
> > Have you tried with the radeon driver, to see if the crashes happen
> > then? Also, try running Chrome from a shell with "--help" to see if
> > it has any "--debug" or "--verbose" options, and then running Chrome
> > (again from a shell) with those to see what happens when the crash
> > occurs. That might provide more details.
> >
> > Is this consistent when you do something specific, or does it happen
> > randomly?
> >
> > Petter
> >
> >
> >
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> I don't think Google Chrome was crashing with "Aw, Snap!" with the 
> open-source Radeon driver.
> The problem is that I must run the proprietary AMD display driver 
> because I use VMWare Player.
> (I run a Windows 8 virtual machine and the proprietary driver is
> required)
> 
> I'll run Google Chrome from terminal and will report any error
> messages. Hope we can solve this problem!

What version of the driver are you using? The last one that is included
in the Ubuntu repos seems to be 15.2, newer versions are available from
AMD. They can be a pain to deal with, but look at this site for a lot
of information on this driver:

http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page

Under "Driver Releases" on the left you will find a list of all
versions, the latest one mentioned there is 15.5. Instructions are on
the site.

Another option would of course be to migrate your Windows VM to KVM,
maybe even VirtualBox. I've personally converted VMware Windows images
to qcow2 images for KVM with qemu-img with great success. Xen might be
another option, but I'm not familiar with that. It's supposed to be
good at PCI passthrough, which might help if it's graphics performance
you're after.

But do the "--debug" or "--verbose" thing first, and look
at /var/log/Xorg.0.log after a crash to see if anything has registered
there. If the driver is involved, there might be some trace of it.
kern.log might also be a place to look for troubles with the driver
kernel module.

Petter

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