Bug#979443: chromium: desktop GUI locks up as Xorg process goes to 100%

2021-01-11 Thread Jan Luca Naumann
Michel and I just prepared an security update for unstable and buster-security which changes the default to "desktop". This should be soon in the archive. Best, Jan Am 11.01.21 um 15:14 schrieb Steve A.: > After three full days of use, the desktop has not frozen again, and the > Xorg process has

Bug#979443: chromium: desktop GUI locks up as Xorg process goes to 100%

2021-01-11 Thread Steve A.
After three full days of use, the desktop has not frozen again, and the Xorg process has remained below 7% CPU use. Should I modify the menu to include the alternate launch command, or is there a beta version of chromium you would like me to try? Steve Steve A. wrote on 1/8/21 6:32 AM:

Bug#979443: chromium: desktop GUI locks up as Xorg process goes to 100%

2021-01-08 Thread Steve A.
Thanks, Jan. I killed chromium, upgraded to 87* again, and re-launched with the recommended command last night. The user is back on this morning and I'm monitoring from another machine. Steve Jan Luca Naumann wrote on 1/7/21 2:30 AM: Dear Steve, with the upgrade to 87.* we included the

Bug#979443: chromium: desktop GUI locks up as Xorg process goes to 100%

2021-01-08 Thread Phil Armstrong
Additionally, I’ve found that the official releases of Chrome from Google suffer from the same problem for me, but that the beta is fine. So it looks like it might be fixed upstream in Chrome release 88. Phil On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 11:30:25 +0100 Jan Luca Naumann wrote: Dear Steve, with the

Bug#979443: chromium: desktop GUI locks up as Xorg process goes to 100%

2021-01-07 Thread Jan Luca Naumann
Dear Steve, with the upgrade to 87.* we included the ANGLE library which manages the OpenGL access of chromium. Maybe this is the cause of your problem. Could you try to launch "$ chromium --use-gl=desktop"? This should disable the usage of ANGLE. Best, Jan On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:00:00 -0800

Bug#979443: chromium: desktop GUI locks up as Xorg process goes to 100%

2021-01-06 Thread Steve A.
Package: chromium Version: 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1 Severity: grave Tags: a11y Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Subsequent to an upgrade from 83.0.4103.116-1~deb10u3 to 87.0.4280.88-0.4~deb10u1, the desktop GUI randomly freezes, including the clock. This occurred