I also have experienced quite often the same problem. It complains about a brocken libvdpau_nvidia.so, although I do not have nvidia graphic card. I use a Lenovo Edge 430, so it has a Intel Graphic card.
~$ chromium-browser & [1] 7156 Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory No bp log location saved, using default. [000:000] Browser XEmbed support present: 1 [000:000] Browser toolkit is Gtk2. [000:000] Using Gtk2 toolkit [000:007] Starting client channel. [000:007] Warning(clientchannel.cc:435): Unreadable or no port file. Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection [000:008] Warning(clientchannel.cc:410): Could not initiate GoogleTalkPlugin connection [000:008] GoogleTalkPlugin not running. Starting new process... [000:008] Warning(optionsfile.cc:47): Load: Could not open file, err=2 [000:008] Warning(pluginutils.cc:267): Failed to get GoogleTalkPlugin path. Trying default. [000:010] Started GoogleTalkPlugin, path=/opt/google/talkplugin/GoogleTalkPlugin [000:010] Waiting for GoogleTalkPlugin to start... [001:103] Attempting to connect to GoogleTalkPlugin... [001:103] Read port file, port=40426 [001:105] Initiated connection to GoogleTalkPlugin [001:213] Socket connection established [001:213] ScheduleOnlineCheck: Online check in 5000ms [001:304] Got cookie response, socket is authorized [001:304] AUTHORIZED; socket handshake complete [006:215] HandleOnlineCheck: Starting check [006:215] HandleOnlineCheck: OK; current state: 3 [1]+ Segmentation fault (core dumped) chromium-browser -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1035932 Title: Chromium crashes very often on Ubuntu 12.04 with SIGSEGV in ??() Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: While working with Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04 the browser crashes often under various circumstances and at different time intervals. This is an example of gdb dump from command line : (exe:4208): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed (exe:4208): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed (exe:4208): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed [Thread 0x7fffe196e700 (LWP 1182) exited] [New Thread 0x7fffd2146700 (LWP 1212)] [Thread 0x7fffd2146700 (LWP 1212) exited] [New Thread 0x7fffe196e700 (LWP 1213)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () I use Nvidia drivers and in the debug log I often get something like ( I do not know if this is related) "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" ( and I also would like to mentioned that I have been affected by this problem http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-blue so I have installed libvdpau1 and now I only have it installed instead of the original one http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-blue USER@UBUNTU:~$ dpkg -l | grep libvdpau ii libvdpau1 0.4.1-3ubuntu1+fixbluefaces~precise ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: chromium-browser 20.0.1132.47~r144678-0precise1+webapps5 [origin: LP-PPA-webapps-preview] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu Date: Sun Aug 12 20:48:32 2012 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) SourcePackage: chromium-browser ThirdParty: True UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1035932/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
