chromium-browser requires a newer version of libnss3 than what was
initially installed. This is not a bug in chromium or libnss itself. A
half-updated system is in an inconstistent state, and will result in
undefined behaviours like this crash.
If you had run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" before "sudo apt-get install
-y chromium-browser", this would have avoided the problem.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Title:
chromium browser crash on fresh offline system install
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Steps to reproduce (and also what I expected and what happened):
1. Disconnect computer from Internet
2. Install Ubuntu (complete with reboot at the end).
3. After running the (freshly installed) system, connect it to Internet
and open a terminal and follow with the session outlined below. Enter
commands on lines starting with "$" into the terminal. Things on lines
starting with "//" are my comments and/or descriptions of what is
expected output of the preceding command.
$ sudo apt-get update
// you should get the normal apt-get update output with no errors
$ sudo apt-get install -y chromium-browser
// you should get the normal apt-get install output here with no errors
$ chromium-browser
// expected result is to have the browser running and possibly some harmless
// warnings below the "$ chromium-browser" line. What actually happens instead
// is this:
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 146: blank doesn't take any
effect anymore. please remove it from your fonts.conf
[2805:2844:0322/144827.306513:FATAL:nss_util.cc(631)]
NSS_VersionCheck("3.26") failed. NSS >= 3.26 is required. Please upgrade to the
latest NSS, and if you still get this error, contact your distribution
maintainer.
Aborted (core dumped)
// I believe that the problem is that the package "chromium-browser"
// is either missing dependency on "libnss3-nssdb" or broken dependency
// on "libnss3" (missing version number). To see, why, continue with:
$ sudo apt-get install -y libnss3
// What I got on the terminal myself follows (with some comments)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libnss3-nssdb
// This is why I said the missing dependency might be "libnss3-nssdb"
// Here apt-get is telling me that "libnss3-nssdb" is going to be
// installed.
The following packages will be upgraded:
libnss3 libnss3-nssdb
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 452 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,135 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,048 B of additional disk space will be used.
// I didn't use "-y" on my command line so apt-get asked for permission.
// You might be missing the line below if you follow the session
// exactly. I included the rest of apt-get output to show you what
// exactly got installed by the command.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libnss3-nssdb
all 2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5 [10.6 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libnss3 amd64
2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5 [1,124 kB]
Fetched 1,135 kB in 2s (477 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 166878 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libnss3-nssdb_2%3a3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5_all.deb ...
Unpacking libnss3-nssdb (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5) over
(2:3.23-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libnss3_2%3a3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libnss3:amd64 (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5) over
(2:3.23-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Setting up libnss3-nssdb (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5) ...
Setting up libnss3:amd64 (2:3.28.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.9) ...
// Now when I try to run the browser ...
$ chromium-browser
// ... this warning is still there ...
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 146: blank doesn't take any
effect anymore. please remove it from your fonts.conf
[2991:2991:0322/145149.851132:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(1019)]
Lost UI shared context.
// ... but no more "NSS_VersionCheck failed" nor "Aborted (core dumped)"
// (and, of course, the terminal window on the desktop is no longer
// alone as the fresh google-chrome window is making a company to it ...
Final notes:
- This bug may not occur if you try to install Ubuntu while connected to
Internet.
- The reason why I did a "fresh offline install" was that installing it while
online
takes over a hour on my system, installing offline and then doing the
commands above
took only about 10 minutes. You might want to try to take a look into why
is online
Ubuntu install so slow but that is not the bug I want to report here (I
will file
a different bug for that if I can figure out, how).
- Offline installs are pretty common in areas with slow Internet. And by "slow
Internet" I don't mean just rural areas with dialup. My current setup is
Colombian
optical wire from Claro and by watching the RX/TX using ifconfig I can tell
the
download process is taking large pauses on this connection, even for simple
"apt-get
update" (an actual apt-get update on the system is much faster).
- Another idea why someone might want to install the system offline is that
they don't
want to mess up with connecting to Internet just yet or they want the
system "fresh
as coming from the CD".
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: chromium-browser 65.0.3325.181-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50~14.04.1-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Mar 22 14:57:04 2019
Desktop-Session:
'ubuntu'
'/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg'
'/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/'
DetectedPlugins:
Env:
'None'
'None'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-03-22 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20160803)
Load-Avg-1min: 1.14
Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.3%
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 80ee:0021 VirtualBox USB Tablet
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: innotek GmbH VirtualBox
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-31-generic
root=UUID=744b095e-2ee9-43f1-8fb1-8f32956ccbd8 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/01/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: innotek GmbH
dmi.bios.version: VirtualBox
dmi.board.name: VirtualBox
dmi.board.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.board.version: 1.2
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Oracle Corporation
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvninnotekGmbH:bvrVirtualBox:bd12/01/2006:svninnotekGmbH:pnVirtualBox:pvr1.2:rvnOracleCorporation:rnVirtualBox:rvr1.2:cvnOracleCorporation:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.name: VirtualBox
dmi.product.version: 1.2
dmi.sys.vendor: innotek GmbH
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
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