Hi
On two computers running EndeavourOS KDE Plasma, Google Chrome continuously crashes after a few seconds or minutes. It happens when watching a video or simply browsing.
I don’t see that happening in Gnome, though.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Run from a terminal, might give some feedback.
This is what I get when I run it from the terminal and it crashes (the first lines before the dots appear when I start the program):
Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU.
Attempting to use a delegate that only supports static-sized tensors with a graph that has dynamic-sized tensors (tensor#-1 is a dynamic-sized tensor).
[2288:2318:0313/141914.474381:ERROR:registration_request.cc(291)] Registration response error message: QUOTA_EXCEEDED
[2288:2288:0313/141934.896202:ERROR:new_tab_page_handler.cc(1341)] NewTabPage loaded into a non-browser-tab context
[2288:2288:0313/141935.073615:ERROR:interface_endpoint_client.cc(725)] Message 0 rejected by interface blink.mojom.WidgetHost
[2288:2392:0313/141947.613665:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(276)] GLib: g_main_context_pop_thread_default: assertion 'stack != NULL' failed
...
[0313/143332.366422:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/143332.366576:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/143332.366645:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/143332.370545:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/143332.371667:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/143332.371828:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/143332.371880:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/143332.372222:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0313/143332.372451:ERROR:process_memory_range.cc(75)] read out of range
[0313/143332.372457:ERROR:process_memory_range.cc(75)] read out of range
[0313/143332.377741:ERROR:process_memory_range.cc(75)] read out of range
[0313/143332.377748:ERROR:process_memory_range.cc(75)] read out of range
[0313/143332.377755:ERROR:process_memory_range.cc(75)] read out of range
[0313/143332.377760:ERROR:process_memory_range.cc(75)] read out of range
[1] 2288 trace trap (core dumped) google-chrome-stable
Try turning off hardware acceleration.
I googled the elf error - seems really common on all chromium based browsers, but difficult to see a sensible answer 
Longshot:
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia
Do you have the above environmental variables? Unset them:
Open chrome://flags
I assume you are on wayland? Try setting wayland as default (ozone).
My partner is on her way back from hospital so I may not be available or only sporadically…
Thank you for the previous messages.
- I don’t have nvidia at all (luckily
- I had tried both with Wayland and X11 in the ozone settings with no difference
I now tried disabling hardware acceleration as you said… let’s see… 
Unfortunately, even disabling acceleration did not help: it still crashes after some time…
Same issue with Chromium from Arch repo?
I am trying now with Chromium on KDE streaming online TV. If it crashes I will inform.
If you haven’t already, disable all of your extensions in Chrome, and test.
@cactux I can’t use Chromium because I need bookmark synchronization
@Bink I’ll try that as well. Currently I’m testing with acceleration disabled and ozone explicitly set to Wayland (a combination I hadn’t tested yet).
I don’t mean to switch. I mean to try and see if Chromium (or other -based) has the same issue. If they don’t then it is probably something particular to Google Chrome not working.
Since my post before about 15 minutes ago, I have no crash on Chromium streaming video on some online tv site. I’ll check with youtube now and inform.
as I mentioned, loads of results searching for the elf error, couldn’t find anything definitive.
@cactux I’ve just tried Chromium: launched it, tried to customize profile, and it crashed…
It must be really something wrong with Chrome based browsers in KDE…
I have watched videos on Chromium in KDE for about 1 hour now. I don’t have crashes on my system.
I use Chromium and two extensions uBlock Lite and Privacy Badger.
$ chromium --version
Chromium 134.0.6998.88 Arch Linux
I have watched videos from RTVE, ARTE and Youtube.
I use Archlinux.
I try more and if I get crashes I inform. I try running from terminal to see if I see some output.
@lorebett - KDE here also, mainly use Vivaldi, but reinstalled Chrome (my install was not long ago, still installing stuff), it works fine, it synced all my profile and told me some addons are now defunct.
But works as expected.
At work, but rough specs are Ryzen7/nVidia RTX3070 / 16gb memory.
I don’t believe that’s the case. If there were a Chrome/Chromium crash issue with KDE, the KDE forums would be littered with posts regarding it. I searched KDE Bugtracking and didn’t find anything.
As for me, I’m having no such issues using Google Chrome, Vivaldi or Chromium.
I agree. It’s likely another issue. Not KDE!
The strange thing is that I’m experiencing it on two different laptops, both equipped with EOS KDE (in Wayland and X11)…
Updates: I’ve also tried with a separate installation (EOS Sway) on the same computer. It’s the same version of Chrome with identical settings (synchronized).
In the whole morning, I never experienced a crash…
It might be something in my configuration of KDE (the same on the other computer I’m experiencing crashes), but it is definitely KDE the culprit Maybe the panel, which is configured as centered and resizes when I open/close other applications. Switching to another KDE workspace also seems to increase the chances of Chrome crashing.
You can perhaps try making a new user account with fresh DE configuration and try your browser there. If it works there then there is something in your user account. What is it? You go figure!
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