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sk8harddiefast
June 17th, 2010, 02:40
Hi guys.
Yesterday i open chrome and i had this issue.
Chrome not loading nothing! Just a blank screen!
I search on google and i found that there is serious issue with chrome and thousands of windows/unix users have the same problem.
Anyone who knows what happens?
zeiz
June 17th, 2010, 03:16
Could you drop the funeral link?
I just opened Chrome and it's still alive (at least the reincarnation at mine :))
sk8harddiefast
June 17th, 2010, 04:17
I don't speak very good english but googling i understood that something goes wrong with chrome.
If you google: Chrome not loading any page, Chrome shows blank screen etc you will find a lot of results
With a very quick search i found this.
http://jueseph.com/2009/09/more-software-frustration-google-chrome-doesnt-load-any-pages-displays-blank-screen/
http://satisfaction.mint.com/mint/topics/mint_com_will_not_load_in_chrome_blank_white_scree n
http://www.google.fm/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=55803f659799bc66&hl=en
http://www.labnol.org/software/webpages-not-opening-in-google-chrome/13041/
http://forum.chromefans.org/chrome-suddenly-not-loading-anything-t383.html
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=1916f28bfce5a937&hl=en
Ok. For Windows i understand. Maybe virus, roolkits. But here? Also i see some solutions but for Windows. Here what i am doing?
adamk
June 17th, 2010, 09:49
So what errors does chrome give you if you run it from a terminal?

Adam
Nightweaver
June 17th, 2010, 09:57
Works fine for me. I'm having issues with some extensions every now and then but nothing too serious. Chorme itself is working great.
sk8harddiefast
June 17th, 2010, 11:29
chrome
[0617/132342:WARNING:base/debug_util_posix.cc(228)] Don't know how to do this
[40763:53715392:58348690175:ERROR:net/disk_cache/backend_impl.cc(129)] Unable to rename cache folder
[40763:52797440:58348698673:ERROR:chrome/app/chrome_dll_main.cc(234)] Gdk: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
DutchDaemon
June 17th, 2010, 14:30
Note that you need this in /etc/sysctl.conf for Chrome to work well (or else pages appear to be hanging, are rendered partially, or garbled):

## http://chromium.jaggeri.com/old/README
kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
sk8harddiefast
June 17th, 2010, 14:37
I did it but the same results. Just opens, load google just fine but screen is blank white
DutchDaemon
June 17th, 2010, 14:48
Did you activate the sysctl? Chrome works 99.9% here. A _very_ occasional glitch, but I've forgotten about FF by now.
sk8harddiefast
June 17th, 2010, 15:09
how to activate sysctl?
DutchDaemon
June 17th, 2010, 15:22
/etc/rc.d/sysctl restart
sk8harddiefast
June 17th, 2010, 15:46
Same issue. Nothing changed
zeiz
June 17th, 2010, 20:44
On this my install (8-STABLE, i386, KDE4) I didn't modify sysctl.conf at all and Chrome runs like never better.
I assume you first had Chrome running fine and suddenly it failed, doesn't it?
What changes did you do to your system in the meantime? Updates? Kernel/world rebuilds...what?
darkshadow
June 17th, 2010, 20:53
my project manager has the same issue on linux , he just told that after killing chrome process for many time it work well
sk8harddiefast
June 17th, 2010, 21:04
I assume you first had Chrome running fine and C it failed, doesn't it?
Yes. I was not using chrome for a while but everyday i am doing ports update/upgrade. And now i open it and suddenly i have a blank screen.
zeiz
June 17th, 2010, 22:21
3 alsa ports were commited recently. Did you successfully replaced original ("alien") alsa ports first required by Chrome with the new ones?
What's your Chrome version and do you still have its port intact?
sk8harddiefast
June 18th, 2010, 06:17
3 alsa ports were commited recently. Did you successfully replaced original ("alien") alsa ports first required by Chrome with the new ones?
No. I guess that portsnap did that. If not, how to do it?
After recompile all my packages finally chrome worked :)
sprewell
June 19th, 2010, 01:12
On FreeBSD, this problem is probably related to that last line of debug output that you pasted:

ERROR:chrome/app/chrome_dll_main.cc(234)] Gdk: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate memory)

The free build of Chromium relies on SysV shared memory to pass rendered webpages between processes, which is why the kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1 flag helps it perform better. My guess is that you probably upgraded to FreeBSD 7.3 or some newer version of FreeBSD that broke compatibility. For example, builds compiled on FreeBSD 7.3 will fail on 7.2 with the same shmget error. I have moved the subscriber builds to file-backed sharing, which is what the Windows and Mac Chromium builds use.
Sennaar
June 21st, 2010, 17:58
Any universal solution so far?

I also have blank pages with multiple dying threads
Thread 3c35000 has exited with leftover thread-specific data after 4 destructor iterations

Tried everything above, none works.
sk8harddiefast
June 21st, 2010, 19:28
Maybe this help.
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/old/i386/chromium-5.0.359.tbz (i386)
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/old/amd64/chromium-5.0.359.tbz (amd64)
from http://chromium.hybridsource.org/
Also you must go to /etc/sysctl.conf and add this line
kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
After do
/etc/rc.d/sysctl restart
and try again.
draco003
October 15th, 2011, 23:56
Just for future reference if anybody came across this thread

Giving kern.ipc.shmall a higher value will solve this problem

sysctl kern.ipc.shmall=17731

to make it work on boot :

echo 'kern.ipc.shmall=17731' >> /etc/sysctl.conf

Thanks to mgmartin for pointing out: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=59927&postcount=7
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