Chromium-browser won't start

[polki@mac.com]

Update-notifier told me there were updates today and I installed them. Among them were some for chromium (the browser, not the game ). After the update I couldn't start the browser. I tried starting from terminal and got:

"Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-minimal.c: 138: realloc: Assertion `ptr == alloc_last_block' failed!"

"I haz a fail!", I thought to myself and then tried rebooting and then reinstalling. Neither worked.

This is on a 64-bit machine. Everything else works as expected. Using Firefox now, but I want my chromium-browser as well.

Any ideas?

[jimendeath]

Hi,

I got the same error after updating some things (i cannot remember which ones) i been notified by ubuntu system updater.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala

Thanx in advance

[d-E-a-D]

same here

[exutable]

yep me too, right after an update

Have 9.10 64 bit

[aninona]

same here kk 32

[pepitux]

Me too, since it's updated this morning

I have Karmic 64

[mkvnmtr]

We are using a daily build. Sometimes it does not work or has bugs. Probably the next update will fix it. To not have this problem sometimes you can comment out the repositories when you have a build working well or you could download the Google version.

[garg]

Same problem here. Latest build 4.0.293.0~svn20100108r35769-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic Chromium browser
does not launch.

I reverted to the old version. Check if your apt cache has the old version:

ls -lrt /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser

I had

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10192464 2010-01-03 23:26 /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_4.0.289.0~svn20100104r35448-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   463090 2010-01-06 03:37 /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser-inspector_4.0.291.0~svn20100106r35606-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10205836 2010-01-06 03:37 /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_4.0.291.0~svn20100106r35606-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   470546 2010-01-07 23:28 /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser-inspector_4.0.293.0~svn20100108r35769-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10237162 2010-01-07 23:28 /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_4.0.293.0~svn20100108r35769-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic_i386.deb

293 stopped working, so I tried to install 291 using:

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_4.0.291.0~svn20100106r35606-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic_i386.deb

and

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser-inspector_4.0.291.0~svn20100106r35606-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic_all.deb

And now it is running. Don't install updates I guess until build 295?

[garg]

Here is the bug report:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/is...%20Mstone%20OS

The fix that they suggest is:

In the meantime, you can downgrade to yesterday's version, or shift to one of the
other channels/PPAs:

https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/dev
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/beta

and

1. System > Administration > Software Sources
2. Click 'Other Software'
3. Choose chromium deps and change them to read:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/dev/ubuntu instead of
http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu
**You should have 2 of them, one for sources and the other

Close and choose reload when prompted.

Goto Synaptic and type chromium in the search.. when chromium-browser is displayed
highlight and then from the menubar choose 'Packages > Force version' and you should
get a drop down.. just choose the previous version from the list and away you go

[rburkartjo]

i experienced the same problem. will just wait until the next update. for a while i thought was just on my end