Chromium 36 upgrade will not execute

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Same Problem here with AMD Athlon XP 3000+ on ASRock K7VT6 Board.

bus Motherboard
memory 1019MiB Systemspeicher
processor AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+
memory 128KiB L1-Cache
memory 512KiB L2-Cache
bridge VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge
bridge VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
display R481 [Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP]
storage VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller
storage VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE
bridge VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
multimedia VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller

I have a theory about it. Can you attach the core file?

Also, attach output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo".

I have added an attachment with the output from "cat /proc/cpuinfo".

I have not been able to find a core dump file after running "chromium-browser" from the command line. I ran "sudo find -name core.*" at the root directory, but did not find anything that seemed to be associated with Chromium. I also tried "gcore chromium-browser" but it declined to generate a core file probably because "chromium-browser" is a script file. I also tried gcore at "/usr/lib/chromium-browser", which I think is the Chromium executable, but it gave the same messages:

gcore chromium-browser
Illegal process-id: chromium-browser.
You can't do that without a process to debug.
The program is not being run.
gcore: failed to create core.chromium-browser

Thank you.

Looks like Chromium 35 introduced the requirement of SSE2 instructions which aren't supported on our older Athlon CPUs.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750361
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=348761

Arch Linux even has extra packages without an sse2 dependency.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-no-sse2/

Based on the comments of Opera above, I would say my problem with Chromium 36 is not properly a bug, but a problem of obsolete hardware. My machine where Chromium won't run is a 2003 machine with an AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+.

I guess I should emphasize that Chromium 35 seemed to be running more or less OK on my AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ machine, although Adobe Flash Player will not run with any of the browsers installed there (Firefox, Opera, or Chromium).

Frederick, there was no chromium 35 in Ubuntu if I remember correctly, so you are probably talking about Chromium 34 (that was the current version in Ubuntu until a few weeks ago when it was upgraded to 36). Chromium 35 has stopped supporting non-SSE2 Linux systems because, according to Google, there are exactly 0 Linux users without SSE2. I'm sorry, you don't exist.

See the chrome bugtracker link above:
> The good news is that for Linux (as opposed to for Windows), there are zero pre-SSE2 users
> out there, so bumping the minimum requirement from P3 to P4 [..]

Also, AMD processors apparently do not exist in the Google universe, so now we have Pentium 4 as the minimum CPU requirement. :-)

Florian W.: Thank you for the clarification about version numbers. I checked my own software update log and agree that there was, in fact, no Chromium 35 from the Update Manager. Apparently Google's view of the world through their narrow Windows does not give them much a realistic panorama of the whole world.

I am now wondering if there is an easy way to revert to Chromiun 34. Or would it be better to just abandon Chromium altogether on my older machine? [ I do have a newer machine where Chromium 36 works OK. ]

Michael Gilbert of Debian apparently carries some patches for chromium that supposedly get rid of SSE2 instructions in the Debian chromium package (at least in experimental?). User opera posted a link to the corresponding bug report in Debian. I'm not sure what the status of this is or if Ubuntu would be willing to use the same patches, as they seem pretty untested and impact/maintenance burden for future chromium releases is not clear.

I wouldn't recommend using Chromium 34, as each of 35, 36 and 37 has a lot of security fixes that are not in 34. So that would be somewhat dangerous. I also don't know about an easy way to revert to 34, as most PPAs or other repositories are probably updated by now. Maybe you can find the old deb files somewhere.

Consider using a different browser :/

Florian W.: Thank you for your advice. I think I will abandon Chromium on my old machine since Firefox and Opera will start OK and are at least partially operable there.

This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser - 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~pkg909

---------------
chromium-browser (37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~pkg909) precise-security; urgency=medium

  * Release to stage

chromium-browser (37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Upstream release 37.0.2062.94.
    - CVE-2014-3165: Use-after-free in Blink websockets.
    - CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: A combination of bugs in V8, IPC, sync, and
      extensions that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox.
    - CVE-2014-3168: Use-after-free in SVG.
    - CVE-2014-3169: Use-after-free in DOM.
    - CVE-2014-3170: Extension permission dialog spoofing.
    - CVE-2014-3171: Use-after-free in bindings.
    - CVE-2014-3172: Issue related to extension debugging.
    - CVE-2014-3173: Uninitialized memory read in WebGL.
    - CVE-2014-3174: Uninitialized memory read in Web Audio.
    - CVE-2014-3175: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other
      initiatives.
    - CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: Interaction of extensions, IPC, the sync
      API, and Google V8 to execute arbitrary code.
  * Fix a shell bug in the binary-wrapper that prevented USER flags
    from working properly.
  * debian/control: Suggests chromiumflashplugin .
  * debian/apport: Significant cleanup.
  * debian/rules: Disable SSE instructions on x86 to avoid SIGILL on some CPUs.
    (LP: #1353185)
  * debian/checkout-orig-source.mk: Don't include src/ prefix in orig tarball.
  * debian/patches/*: refresh line numbers.
  * debian/patches/search-credit.patch,
    debian/patches/additional-search-engines.patch: Track source files moved.
  * debian/patches/ffmpeg-gyp-config.patch,
    debian/patches/fix-gyp-space-in-object-filename-exception.patch,
    debian/patches/gyp-icu-m32-test:
    Disabled. No longer needs fixing.
  * debian/control: build-dep on openssl.
  * debian/patches/disable-sse2: Don't require SSE/SSE2 CPU features on x86.
    (LP: #1353185)
  * debian/rules: Use built-in PDF support. (LP: #513745, #1009902)

chromium-browser (36.0.1985.143-0ubuntu1) precise-security; urgency=low

  * Upstream release 36.0.1985.143:
    - CVE-2014-3165: Use-after-free in web sockets.
    - CVE-2014-3166: Information disclosure in SPDY.
    - CVE-2014-3167: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other
      initiatives.
  * debian/rules: Avoid some unnecessary warning of invalid mv.
  * debian/rules: Don't use tcmalloc on i386.
  * debian/control: Don't have (unused) shlibs-depends on -dbg packages
    and non-binary packages.
  * debian/chromium-browser-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.dirs,
    debian/chromium-browser-codecs-ffmpeg.dirs: Removed. Unused.
  * debian/chromium-browser.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-dbg.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra.lintian-overrides,
    debian/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg.lintian-overrides,
    debian/source/lintian-overrides: Add lintian overrides.
 -- Chad MILLER <email address hidden> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:27:11 -0400

I received the Chromium 37 update via the Update Manager and installed it (thank you). However, Chromium will still not execute on my Athlon XP 2400+ machine. I now get the following screen output when executing from the command line (which I did not get with version 36):

>chromium-browser

#
# Fatal error in ../../v8/src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc, line 53
# CHECK(cpu.has_sse2()) failed
#

==== C stack trace ===============================

 1: ??
 2: ??
 3: ??
 4: ??
 5: ??
 6: ??
 7: ??
 8: ??
 9: ??
10: gin::IsolateHolder::IsolateHolder(gin::IsolateHolder::ScriptMode)
11: net::ProxyResolverV8::EnsureIsolateCreated()
12: ??
13: ??
14: ??
15: base::MessageLoop::RunTask(base::PendingTask const&)
16: base::MessageLoop::DeferOrRunPendingTask(base::PendingTask const&)
17: base::MessageLoop::DoWork()
18: base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run(base::MessagePump::Delegate*)
19: base::MessageLoop::RunHandler()
20: base::RunLoop::Run()
21: base::MessageLoop::Run()
22: base::Thread::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
23: content::BrowserThreadImpl::IOThreadRun(base::MessageLoop*)
24: content::BrowserThreadImpl::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
25: base::Thread::ThreadMain()
26: ??
27: ??
28: clone
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

$ chromium-browser --version
Chromium 37.0.2062.94 Ubuntu 14.04

$ chromium-browser

#
# Fatal error in ../../v8/src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc, line 53
# CHECK(cpu.has_sse2()) failed
#

==== C stack trace ===============================

 1: ??
 2: ??
 3: ??
 4: ??
 5: ??
 6: ??
 7: v8::V8::Initialize()
 8: ??
 9: gin::IsolateHolder::IsolateHolder(gin::IsolateHolder::ScriptMode)
10: net::ProxyResolverV8::EnsureIsolateCreated()
11: ??
12: ??
13: ??
14: base::MessageLoop::RunTask(base::PendingTask const&)
15: base::MessageLoop::DeferOrRunPendingTask(base::PendingTask const&)
16: base::MessageLoop::DoWork()
17: base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run(base::MessagePump::Delegate*)
18: base::MessageLoop::RunHandler()
19: base::RunLoop::Run()
20: base::MessageLoop::Run()
21: base::Thread::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
22: content::BrowserThreadImpl::IOThreadRun(base::MessageLoop*)
23: content::BrowserThreadImpl::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
24: base::Thread::ThreadMain()
25: ??
26: ??
27: clone

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1674.510
cache size : 256 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 1
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3349.02
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts

Same here:
rienesl@X30-SSD-LX:~$ dpkg -l \* | grep chromium-browser
ii chromium-browser 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~pkg909 Chromium browser
un chromium-browser-inspector <none> (no description available)
ii chromium-browser-l10n 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~pkg909 chromium-browser language packages
rienesl@X30-SSD-LX:~$ chromium-browser

#
# Fatal error in ../../v8/src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc, line 53
# CHECK(cpu.has_sse2()) failed
#

==== C stack trace ===============================

 1: ??
 2: ??
 3: ??
 4: ??
 5: ??
 6: ??
 7: ??
 8: ??
 9: ??
10: gin::IsolateHolder::IsolateHolder(gin::IsolateHolder::ScriptMode)
11: net::ProxyResolverV8::EnsureIsolateCreated()
12: ??
13: ??
14: ??
15: base::MessageLoop::RunTask(base::PendingTask const&)
16: base::MessageLoop::DeferOrRunPendingTask(base::PendingTask const&)
17: base::MessageLoop::DoWork()
18: base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run(base::MessagePump::Delegate*)
19: base::MessageLoop::RunHandler()
20: base::RunLoop::Run()
21: base::MessageLoop::Run()
22: base::Thread::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
23: content::BrowserThreadImpl::IOThreadRun(base::MessageLoop*)
24: content::BrowserThreadImpl::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
25: base::Thread::ThreadMain()
26: ??
27: ??
28: clone
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

Same here as well.

$ dpkg -l \* | grep chromium-browser
ii chromium-browser 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~pkg909 Chromium browser

$ chromium-browser
[2154:2181:0914/161834:ERROR:nss_util.cc(856)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018

#
# Fatal error in ../../v8/src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc, line 53
# CHECK(cpu.has_sse2()) failed
#

==== C stack trace ===============================

 1: ??
 2: ??
 3: ??
 4: ??
 5: ??
 6: ??
 7: ??
 8: ??
 9: ??
10: gin::IsolateHolder::IsolateHolder(gin::IsolateHolder::ScriptMode)
11: net::ProxyResolverV8::EnsureIsolateCreated()
12: ??
13: ??
14: ??
15: base::MessageLoop::RunTask(base::PendingTask const&)
16: base::MessageLoop::DeferOrRunPendingTask(base::PendingTask const&)
17: base::MessageLoop::DoWork()
18: base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run(base::MessagePump::Delegate*)
19: base::MessageLoop::RunHandler()
20: base::RunLoop::Run()
21: base::MessageLoop::Run()
22: base::Thread::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
23: content::BrowserThreadImpl::IOThreadRun(base::MessageLoop*)
24: content::BrowserThreadImpl::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
25: base::Thread::ThreadMain()
26: ??
27: ??
28: clone
Illegal instruction

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 2200.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips : 4410.05
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts

With latest upgrade package installed, still broken.

$ dpkg -l \* | grep chromium-browser
ii chromium-browser 37.0.2062.120-0ubuntu0.12.04.1~pkg917 Chromium browser

$ chromium-browser
[2222:2249:0923/123510:ERROR:nss_util.cc(856)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018

#
# Fatal error in ../../v8/src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc, line 53
# CHECK(cpu.has_sse2()) failed
#

==== C stack trace ===============================

 1: ??
 2: ??
 3: ??
 4: ??
 5: ??
 6: ??
 7: ??
 8: ??
 9: ??
10: gin::IsolateHolder::IsolateHolder(gin::IsolateHolder::ScriptMode)
11: net::ProxyResolverV8::EnsureIsolateCreated()
12: ??
13: ??
14: ??
15: base::MessageLoop::RunTask(base::PendingTask const&)
16: base::MessageLoop::DeferOrRunPendingTask(base::PendingTask const&)
17: base::MessageLoop::DoWork()
18: base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run(base::MessagePump::Delegate*)
19: base::MessageLoop::RunHandler()
20: base::RunLoop::Run()
21: base::MessageLoop::Run()
22: base::Thread::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
23: content::BrowserThreadImpl::IOThreadRun(base::MessageLoop*)
24: content::BrowserThreadImpl::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
25: base::Thread::ThreadMain()
26: ??
27: ??
28: clone
Illegal instruction

Seulement dans Ubuntu тупейший des plus тупейших dans le monde un moyen d'obtenir des paquets de programmes à partir des dépôts d'Ubuntu. Seulement les prématurés, les créateurs de Linux pourraient arriver nulle part n'est pas digne de logiciels référentiel, où chaque étape - être une erreur. Depuis la version 12.04 et se terminant 14.10 de devenir extrêmement clair: que la seule absolument prématuré unique enfant pourrait venir de cette bêtise - Ubuntu. Et, selon toute probabilité, inventé, écrit dans la langue de schizophrène et обосрался - de ce qu'il a écrit!

Same issue here. Athlon 2800 processor

jbh@junkbox:/usr/bin$ sudo ./chromium-browser --version
Chromium 37.0.2062.120 Ubuntu 12.04

jbh@junkbox:/proc$ cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 2087.500
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up
bogomips : 4176.24
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 34 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management: ts

Installation of Chromium 38.0.2125.111 did not eliminate the above problem. Following is the screen output from running chromium-browser in a terminal:

chromium-browser

#
# Fatal error in ../../v8/src/ia32/assembler-ia32.cc, line 54
# CHECK(cpu.has_sse2()) failed
#

==== C stack trace ===============================

 1: ??
 2: ??
 3: ??
 4: ??
 5: ??
 6: ??
 7: v8::V8::Initialize()
 8: ??
 9: gin::IsolateHolder::IsolateHolder(gin::IsolateHolder::ScriptMode)
10: net::ProxyResolverV8::EnsureIsolateCreated()
11: ??
12: ??
13: ??
14: base::debug::TaskAnnotator::RunTask(char const*, char const*, base::PendingTask const&)
15: base::MessageLoop::RunTask(base::PendingTask const&)
16: base::MessageLoop::DeferOrRunPendingTask(base::PendingTask const&)
17: base::MessageLoop::DoWork()
18: base::MessagePumpLibevent::Run(base::MessagePump::Delegate*)
19: base::MessageLoop::RunHandler()
20: base::RunLoop::Run()
21: base::MessageLoop::Run()
22: base::Thread::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
23: content::BrowserThreadImpl::IOThreadRun(base::MessageLoop*)
24: content::BrowserThreadImpl::Run(base::MessageLoop*)
25: base::Thread::ThreadMain()
26: ??
27: ??
28: clone
ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

Chromium 39.0.2171.65 installed. Still will not execute on AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+. Error as above.

I get this upon starting Chromium 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 on Ubuntu 14.04:

Illegal instruction (SIGILL) (core dumped)

kernel logs the following:
[13229.484984] traps: NSS SSL ThreadW[11266] trap invalid opcode ip:7f1f1360b73e sp:7f1f06801740 error:0 in libfreebl3.so[7f1f135b4000+78000]

CPU is a Core i7-4600U.

And after a reboot, it suddenly does not occur anymore. No idea what's going on.

On my original post for my AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ machine, I was running Ubuntu 12.04. Since then, I installed 14.04, which I most recently decided to overwrite with Debian 7.7 (because Ubuntu no longer provides a video driver compatible with my hardware -- but that's another story). What I wanted to report here, for what it's worth, is that Chomium won't execute under Debian 7.7 either. I get about the same error message from a terminal execution as I did from Ubuntu.