Bug#628724: chromium: Browser prevents urther creation of processes

Nicholas Bamber nicholas at periapt.co.uk
Tue May 31 18:10:12 UTC 2011


Package: chromium
Version: 11.0.696.71~r86024-1
Severity: important

What follows are the steps and commandline results I can take to reproduce it. When I run "chromium http://www.israelnationalnews.com" I get the message "The following plugin has crashed: Shockwave Flash" in chromium itself. Trying to launch a new xterm gives the error: "Could not launch 'Terminal' \n Failed to fork (Resource temporarily unavailable)". Trying to run "free" in an existing terminal gives:
"Failed to fork (Resource temporarily unavailable)".
As soon as I close chromium it returns to normal. 
It happens immediately and reproducibly although the exact details of what happens on each occasion differ. 
I originally intended to reopen #604954 (and the choice of test site was entirely motivated by that)
but I was not sure it was the same issue. I was experiencing the issue with other websites and tried to look through the
bug reports before proceeding.

nicholas at taylor:~$ dpkg -l chromium
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version                   Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii  chromium                  11.0.696.71~r86024-1      Chromium browser
nicholas at taylor:~$ man chromium
nicholas at taylor:~$ chromium http://www.israelnationalnews.com
[swscaler @ 0x1cde000]No accelerated colorspace conversion found.
nicholas at taylor:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1               330215    149208    163958  48% /
tmpfs                     5120         0      5120   0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs                   192960       304    192656   1% /run
udev                    963468         0    963468   0% /dev
tmpfs                   385920         0    385920   0% /run/shm
/dev/sda9            137872448   2800336 128068568   3% /home
/dev/sda8               376807     10322    347029   3% /tmp
/dev/sda5              8649992   4158020   4052576  51% /usr
/dev/sda6              2882592   1124596   1611564  42% /var
//buffalo/Periapt    487417548 176019520 311398028  37% /mnt/periapt
//buffalo/share      487417548 176019520 311398028  37% /mnt/share
nicholas at taylor:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1929600     963300     966300          0      22212     420064
-/+ buffers/cache:     521024    1408576
Swap:      3766264          0    3766264
ni


nicholas at taylor:~$ chromium http://www.israelnationalnews.com
[3615:3627:5400061741:ERROR:process_util_posix.cc(501)] fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
[3615:3627:5400093625:ERROR:process_util_posix.cc(501)] fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
[swscaler @ 0x23de000]No accelerated colorspace conversion found.
ALSA lib pcm.c:7223:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occured
nicholas at taylor:~$ 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector  11.0.696.71~r86024-1 page inspector for the chromium br
ii  libasound2          1.0.23-4             shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.5-6              high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6               2.13-4               Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2           1.10.2-6             The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcups2            1.4.6-6              Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.4.8-3              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.92-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2      1.4.13-stable-1      An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1           2.0.1-7              XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1      2.8.0-2.2            generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.4-1              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1             1:4.6.0-10           GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4         2.28.1-6             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11         1.4.6-5              LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.23.3-3             GDK Pixbuf library
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.28.6-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.4-3             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62           6b1-1                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d         4.8.8-1              NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d          3.12.10-1            Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpam0g            1.1.2-3              Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.28.3-6             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.44-2             PNG library - runtime
ii  libprotobuf7        2.4.0a-2             protocol buffers C++ library
ii  libspeex1           1.2~rc1-1            The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6          4.6.0-10             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libv8-3.1.8.10      3.1.8.10-3           V8 JavaScript Engine
ii  libvpx0             0.9.6-1              VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.3-1            X11 client-side library
ii  libxdamage1         1:1.1.3-1            X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.0-1            X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2             2.7.8.dfsg-2+b1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.6-1            X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.26-7+b1          XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1             1:1.2.1-1            X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxtst6            2:1.2.0-1            X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii  xdg-utils           1.1.0~rc1-2          desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3     compression library - runtime

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n                 <none>     (no description available)

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