Chromium hangs sound and brings down the whole computer

[kayvee]

I have chromium installed on my Kubuntu 12.10 system. After a fresh boot, chromium launches without a glitch. However, when I close it and try to start it again it does not start up. If I try to logout of the computer, it hangs. The only way I can get back to the computer is by hard restarting it. Another thing I noticed is that after restarting the computer, the plasma folder widget on my desktop gets resized. I am not sure whether they are related or not... I have the exact same problem with google chrome also. Does anyone else have this problem? Please help me diagnose what's going on here.

[james147]

Not seeing that here, can you see if you get the same behaviour with a new user? If it works for them then try starting chromium with a clean profile on your old user:

killall chromium  # Ask chromium to quit
killall -9 chromium  # Force chromium to quit if the above fails
mv ~/.config/chromium ~  # Moves the config files out the way so they chromium can recreate them

then start chromium again.

[kayvee]

Thanks james. I think it worked.

[kayvee]

Spoke too quickly. No, it is not fixed. Another thing I noticed is excessive CPU usage - one of my cores is running at 100 % but I cannot see which process is using it.

[james147]

Try creating a new user and see if it works for them, that will tell you if its a config error or not.