Bug#657672: chromium: Dialog to upload files does not show up

Sat Jan 28 11:14:42 UTC 2012

Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2012, 00:08:10 schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> > for about two weeks now, the dialog for uploading files to
> > websites does not show up anymore.
> > E.g. if I go to http://imagebin.org/index.php?page=add, the
> > "Choose file" button does nothing. Same goes for every website I
> > tried.
> 
> In other words, '<input type="file">' tags produce a button that
> doesn't work for you.

Correct.

The following page does not open the dialog. It does in Firefox.
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form>
            <input type="file">
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

> Does downgrading to some previous version from testing or
> http://snapshot.debian.org/ help?

In between the versions, I purged all chromium* and libv8* packages.

10.0.648.205 (81283) -> OK
13.0.782.220 (Developer Build 99552 Linux) -> OK
14.0.835.202 (Developer Build 103287 Linux) -> OK
15.0.874.121 (Developer Build 109964 Linux) -> OK
16.0.912.63 (Developer Build 113337 Linux) -> broken
16.0.912.77 (Developer Build 118311 Linux) -> broken

Between 15 and 16 no other than the four packages
  chromium-inspector
  chromium-browser-inspector
  chromium-browser
  chromium
had to be changed (i.e. no changed dependencies).
In 13,14 and 15 I got the warning that the config file was from a 
newer version. Config file change? Might that be related?

But with mv'ed .config/chromium -> no dialog either.

Run with --debug -> no output

> Do you use GNOME, KDE, or some other environment?

KDE

> Does "dmesg" reveal anything having segfaulted?

No output in dmesg, .xsession-errors, /var/log/syslog or 
/var/log/messages except for what I already posted.

Regards