On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:29:48 +1000 Craig Sanders wrote:
> Package: chromium
> Version: 90.0.4430.212-1
>
> I have no idea what causes this, but I've noticed it several times
over the
> last year or two, always while using unix.stackexchange.com "U&L" (so
it's
> probably got something to do with chromium's javascript interpreter).
>
> Anyway, while editing a post on U&L, chromium will sometimes lock up, no
> longer responding to any keyboard or mouse input. When it does this, it
> also locks up most user interface elements in XFCE (the xfce4-panel,
menus,
> buttons, tabs, etc).
>
> I can Alt-Tab to a terminal window to kill chromium, but if I click
on a menu
> (e.g. the File menu) in the terminal, I'm unable to either select a
menu item
> or get out of that menu...effectively freezing the terminal too.
>
> As soon as I kill chromium, xfce returns to normal behaviour. Restarting
> chromium does NOT trigger the lockup again, even when the U&L page
gets reload
> by the chromium session manager (so, maybe some kind of memory or handle
> leak??).
>
> This only happens very rarely - maybe once every few months.
>
Hi,
Can you please tell me if you see this with chromium 97 or above? This
sounds like a bug related to X11 API usage (ie, grabbing window focus
and not letting go). We switched backends to ozone (which should be
better supported), and I'm curious if it still occurs with ozone-x11.
Thanks,
Andres
