Just ran into this problem myself. Occurred after debian auto updates, with first apparent symptom being that Chromium wouldn't open. Paying closer attention showed that Chromium was actually opening, but closing quickly.
This led to an attempt to open Chromium from the Terminal with parameters "--enable-logging --v=1" : which produced a report that included diagnosis/prescription: [13435:13435:543904710486:FATAL:shared_memory_posix.cc(176)] This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm' to fix Tried 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm' , and the fix worked. Am able to reopen Chromium now! -- 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/886054 Title: chromium-browser crashed with SIGABRT Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is maybe caused by UCK which was running in the background. I fixed this by running 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm'. mandriver@mandriver-laptop:~$ chromium-browser --debug # Env: # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/chromium-browser # PATH=/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games # GTK_PATH= # CHROMIUM_USER_FLAGS= # CHROMIUM_FLAGS= /usr/bin/gdb /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser -x /tmp/chromiumargs.ypCOVU <...> [1190:1202:7968199066:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(172)] Creating shared memory in /dev/shm/.org.chromium.Chromium.nHRi5v failed: Access denied [1190:1202:7968200308:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(175)] Unable to access(W_OK|X_OK) /dev/shm: Access denied [1190:1202:7968200453:FATAL:shared_memory_posix.cc(177)] This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm' to fix. Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: chromium-browser 15.0.874.106~r107270-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CrashCounter: 1 Date: Fri Nov 4 14:46:04 2011 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome-classic XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome-classic:/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome-classic:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318) ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser\ https://mail.google.com/mail/ ProcEnviron: Signal: 6 SourcePackage: chromium-browser StacktraceTop: ?? () ?? () ?? () ?? () ?? () Title: chromium-browser crashed with SIGABRT UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (62 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lpadmin netdev nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare tape video chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/886054/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
