Comment 40 for bug 1835623

Bug solved!

In my case, the Laine gnome-shell extension was causing all the problems.
when I turned the Laine extension off both google-chrome and chromium
versions 75 (newest updates) worked again. Both video and audio playback
ran normally again.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 2:51 PM BavarianPH <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Attachment added: "Security_log"
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1835623/+attachment/5277514/+files/log_messages_Security.log
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> Title:
> Google Chrome Linux version 75 freezes and then crashes when trying to
> play any video
>
> Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> (upstream bug report:
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=983203)
>
> Ubuntu 18.04
> I expect Chrome to play videos.
> When I try to play any video on Google Chrome for Linux, any version of
> 75 or higher, Google Chrome freezes.
> Chrome 75 will allow sound but no video.
> All mouse clicks become unresponsive.
> Attempting to close Chrome after many mouse clicks causes Chrome to
> crash.
> Even worse it often also crashes Ubuntu 18.04.
> Google Chrome 74 or lower work without any problems playing videos.
> It is a Google Chrome Linux version 75 or higher problem.
> I cannot believe that neither Google or Ubuntu or any other Linux OS
> seem to completely ignore this extremely serious problem.
> I am forced to install Google Chrome 71 to fix video playback problem.
> I posted on Ubuntu ask, and show over 90 views but no comments.
> One answer confirms that he has the exact same problem.
> ---
> ProblemType: Bug
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Desktop-Session:
> 'ubuntu'
> '/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg'
> '/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop'
> DetectedPlugins:
>
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Env:
> 'None'
> 'None'
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-02 (66 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
> (20181019)
> Load-Avg-1min: 1.47
> Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.1%
> MachineType: MSI MS-7641
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
> Package: chromium-browser 75.0.3770.90-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
> PackageArchitecture: amd64
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm-256color
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-55-generic
> root=UUID=7181ee96-0bd0-4b3c-9100-fa205ef6bd1d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-55.60-generic 4.15.18
> Tags: bionic
> Uname: Linux 4.15.0-55-generic x86_64
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
> UserGroups: adm adm cdrom cdrom dip dip lpadmin lpadmin plugdev plugdev
> sambashare sambashare sudo sudo
> _MarkForUpload: True
> dmi.bios.date: 04/20/2015
> dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: V25.1
> dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.board.name: 760GMA-P34(FX) (MS-7641)
> dmi.board.vendor: MSI
> dmi.board.version: 5.0
> dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.chassis.type: 3
> dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
> dmi.chassis.version: 5.0
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV25.1:bd04/20/2015:svnMSI:pnMS-7641:pvr5.0:rvnMSI:rn760GMA-P34(FX)(MS-7641):rvr5.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr5.0:
> dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> dmi.product.name: MS-7641
> dmi.product.version: 5.0
> dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
> etcconfigcpepperflashpluginnonfree:
> flashso="/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so"
> flashversion=`strings $flashso 2> /dev/null | grep LNX | cut -d ' ' -f
> 2 | sed -e "s/,/./g"`
> CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --ppapi-flash-path=$flashso
> --ppapi-flash-version=$flashversion"
> modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium-browser: [deleted]
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