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

[Jesse Palser]

On 06/10/2015 07:45 AM, Petter Adsen wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Hi,

Just got the "Aw, Snap!" crash.
Here is terminal output:
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jezxlee at SuperFastDesktop:~/Desktop$ google-chrome
[9386:9386:0610/070247:ERROR:url_pattern_set.cc(240)] Invalid url 
pattern: chrome://print/*
[9418:9418:0610/070247:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(340)] InitializeSandbox() 
called with multiple threads in process gpu-process
[WARNING:flash/platform/pepper/pep_module.cpp(63)] SANDBOXED
[WARNING:flash/platform/pepper/pep_module.cpp(63)] SANDBOXED
[WARNING:flash/platform/pepper/pep_module.cpp(63)] SANDBOXED
________________________________________________________________________________

Any idea what the problem is?

Jesse
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