Chrome crashing system (amd64-10.0-CURRENT)

[Cy Schubert]

In message <20120517071141.GL2701 at thinkbsd.divinix.org>, John Hixson writes:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:15:54AM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > For the last week or so, I've been unable to run chrome.  Any attempt
> > to start it up will cause the system either to freeze up or reboot.
> > 
> > To make matters worse, no trace of what's happening is anywhere to be
> > found.  Nothing in any log files.  The system doesn't drop into the
> > kernel debugger, either.  It's either a hard freeze or sudden reboot.
> > 
> > I've tried rebuilding the chromium port, with both clang and gcc 4.6,
> > to no avail.  I've also updated the system sources several times this
> > week and remade world/kernel.  Nothing seems to help.
> > 
> > I'm totally stumped as to how to determine what's going on here.  Any
> > suggestions as to how to obtain some useful info?
> > 
> 
> To add to this, I've had the same problem on 10-CURRENT for several months
> now.

I think we're dealing with two issues here. First, the application is 
passing out of bound data or corrupt data to the O/S. Secondly, FreeBSD 
should be able to withstand this (DoS).


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