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Bug#1010407: chromium: Chromium immediately crashes on Illegal instruction on Buster i386
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Andres Salomon
Apr 30, 2022, 7:10:04 PM4/30/22
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Severity: normal
Control: retitle 1010407 chromium: does not support older CPUs without
SSE3 instructions
Tags: wontfix
Thanks for the report! It looks like chromium officially dropped older
CPU support:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chrome-stops-working-on-old-processors
There's not much I can do about that unfortunately, and I wouldn't
recommend using older versions of chromium due to security bugs. I
suggest firefox?
I will add a test to the chromium script to refuse to run without sse3,
though.
On 4/30/22 16:11, Gordon N. Squash wrote:
> Package: chromium
> Version: 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I am using Debian Buster i386 on an Intel Pentium 4-based machine manufactured
> in mid-2003. The CPU is a Pentium 4 (Northwood) family 15, model 2, stepping
> 7. It supports SSE and SSE2 but not SSE3, SSSE3, AVX, x86-64, or any other
> jazz that many Web browsers tend to need these days. Nevertheless, I know
> that Debian versions of browsers tend to be compiled for much lower-specced
> machines than even this one, and I've used slightly older versions of Chromium
> (~ 85) here before, so I figured it'd work as usual.
>
> I installed the latest version of Chromium for Buster (I intend to upgrade to
> Bullseye soon). I have used Chromium on this version of Debian and this
> hardware before, specifically some versions between 80 and 85. However, I
> purged Chromium after using it the last time and also made a point of deleting
> my Chromium profile in my home directory. Therefore, I am quite confident
> that my installation is not the cause of the problem here.
>
> Immediately after installing chromium and chromium-sandbox, I ran Chromium
> from a terminal window on my desktop environment (MATE). The CPU usage spiked
> for a few seconds, then fell down to zero again. Chromium never displayed a
> window at all; it crashed, and printed this in the terminal:
>
> Received signal Illegal instruction
>
> I ran Chromium with the --debug option, and when Chromium crashed again, I
> used the gdb 'disassemble' command to see what the failing instruction was:
>
> # Env:
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
> # PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
> # GTK_PATH=
> # CHROMIUM_FLAGS= --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension=
> /usr/bin/gdb /usr/lib/chromium/chromium -x /tmp/chromiumargs.8dFo68
> GNU gdb (Debian 8.2.1-2+b3) 8.2.1
> [etc]
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/chromium/chromium...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension= --single-process
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
> [New Thread 0xaf569b40 (LWP 2977)]
> [Detaching after fork from child process 2978]
> [Detaching after fork from child process 2979]
> [New Thread 0xaebffb40 (LWP 2985)]
> [New Thread 0xad673b40 (LWP 2986)]
> [New Thread 0xace72b40 (LWP 2987)]
> [New Thread 0xac671b40 (LWP 2988)]
> [New Thread 0xabe70b40 (LWP 2989)]
> [New Thread 0xab66fb40 (LWP 2990)]
>
> Thread 6 "ThreadPoolForeg" received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
> [Switching to Thread 0xac671b40 (LWP 2988)]
> 0x05656790 in ?? ()
> (gdb) disassemble 0x05656790,+16
> Dump of assembler code from 0x5656790 to 0x56567a0:
> => 0x05656790: fisttpll (%esp)
> 0x05656793: mov (%esp),%ecx
> 0x05656796: mov 0x4(%esp),%edx
> 0x0565679a: mov %edx,0x4(%eax)
> 0x0565679d: mov %ecx,(%eax)
> 0x0565679f: jmp 0x56567ba
> End of assembler dump.
> (gdb)
>
> 'fisttp' is an SSE3 instruction; my CPU does not support SSE3. I would have
> expected that Chromium would work on my old CPU since Firefox is specially
> compiled (on Debian) to not use SSE3, and in fact if I'm not mistaken, Firefox
> is compiled not to even need SSE2. (Maybe it does now, I don't know.) I
> must use Chromium since some Web sites I visit (ironically, or maybe
> appropriately, including intel.com) do not work correctly on Firefox or even
> Webkit-based browsers like Midori; sadly I can't upgrade this old workhorse
> right now.
>
> Is there something I can do to get Chromium working? Thanks in advance.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 10.5
> APT prefers oldstable
> APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.8.6 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages chromium depends on:
> ii chromium-common 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1
> ii libasound2 1.1.8-1
> ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.30.0-5
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
> ii libatomic1 8.3.0-6
> ii libatspi2.0-0 2.30.0-7
> ii libavcodec58 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii libavformat58 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii libavutil56 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii libc6 2.28-10
> ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
> ii libcups2 2.2.10-6+deb10u3
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-0+deb10u1
> ii libdrm2 2.4.97-1
> ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4
> ii libexpat1 2.2.6-2+deb10u1
> ii libflac8 1.3.2-3
> ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2
> ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3+deb10u1
> ii libgbm1 18.3.6-2+deb10u1
> ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2
> ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1
> ii libharfbuzz0b 2.3.1-1
> ii libicu63 63.1-6+deb10u1
> ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.2-2+b1
> ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3
> ii liblcms2-2 2.9-3
> ii libminizip1 1.1-8+b1
> ii libnspr4 2:4.20-1
> ii libnss3 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u3
> ii libopenjp2-7 2.3.0-2+deb10u1
> ii libopus0 1.3-1
> ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1
> ii libpng16-16 1.6.36-6
> ii libpulse0 12.2-4+deb10u1
> ii libre2-5 20190101+dfsg-2
> ii libsnappy1v5 1.1.7-1
> ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
> ii libvpx5 1.7.0-3+deb10u1
> ii libwebp6 0.6.1-2
> ii libwebpdemux2 0.6.1-2
> ii libwebpmux3 0.6.1-2
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
> ii libxcb1 1.13.1-2
> ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2
> ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-3+b3
> ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
> ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1
> ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3
> ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
> ii libxshmfence1 1.3-1
> ii libxslt1.1 1.1.32-2.2~deb10u1
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
>
> Versions of packages chromium recommends:
> ii chromium-sandbox 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1
>
> Versions of packages chromium suggests:
> pn chromium-driver <none>
> pn chromium-l10n <none>
> pn chromium-shell <none>
>
> Versions of packages chromium-common depends on:
> ii libc6 2.28-10
> ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
> ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
> ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
> ii x11-utils 7.7+4
> ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1+deb10u1
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
>
> Versions of packages chromium-common recommends:
> ii chromium-sandbox 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1
> pn fonts-liberation <none>
> ii libgl1-mesa-dri 18.3.6-2+deb10u1
> pn libu2f-udev <none>
> ii mate-notification-daemon [notification-daemon] 1.20.2-1
> ii upower 0.99.10-1
>
> Versions of packages chromium-sandbox depends on:
> ii libc6 2.28-10
>
> -- no debconf information
>
Control: retitle 1010407 chromium: does not support older CPUs without
SSE3 instructions
Tags: wontfix
Thanks for the report! It looks like chromium officially dropped older
CPU support:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chrome-stops-working-on-old-processors
There's not much I can do about that unfortunately, and I wouldn't
recommend using older versions of chromium due to security bugs. I
suggest firefox?
I will add a test to the chromium script to refuse to run without sse3,
though.
On 4/30/22 16:11, Gordon N. Squash wrote:
> Package: chromium
> Version: 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I am using Debian Buster i386 on an Intel Pentium 4-based machine manufactured
> in mid-2003. The CPU is a Pentium 4 (Northwood) family 15, model 2, stepping
> 7. It supports SSE and SSE2 but not SSE3, SSSE3, AVX, x86-64, or any other
> jazz that many Web browsers tend to need these days. Nevertheless, I know
> that Debian versions of browsers tend to be compiled for much lower-specced
> machines than even this one, and I've used slightly older versions of Chromium
> (~ 85) here before, so I figured it'd work as usual.
>
> I installed the latest version of Chromium for Buster (I intend to upgrade to
> Bullseye soon). I have used Chromium on this version of Debian and this
> hardware before, specifically some versions between 80 and 85. However, I
> purged Chromium after using it the last time and also made a point of deleting
> my Chromium profile in my home directory. Therefore, I am quite confident
> that my installation is not the cause of the problem here.
>
> Immediately after installing chromium and chromium-sandbox, I ran Chromium
> from a terminal window on my desktop environment (MATE). The CPU usage spiked
> for a few seconds, then fell down to zero again. Chromium never displayed a
> window at all; it crashed, and printed this in the terminal:
>
> Received signal Illegal instruction
>
> I ran Chromium with the --debug option, and when Chromium crashed again, I
> used the gdb 'disassemble' command to see what the failing instruction was:
>
> # Env:
> # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
> # PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
> # GTK_PATH=
> # CHROMIUM_FLAGS= --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension=
> /usr/bin/gdb /usr/lib/chromium/chromium -x /tmp/chromiumargs.8dFo68
> GNU gdb (Debian 8.2.1-2+b3) 8.2.1
> [etc]
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/chromium/chromium...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium --show-component-extension-options --enable-gpu-rasterization --no-default-browser-check --disable-pings --media-router=0 --enable-remote-extensions --load-extension= --single-process
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
> [New Thread 0xaf569b40 (LWP 2977)]
> [Detaching after fork from child process 2978]
> [Detaching after fork from child process 2979]
> [New Thread 0xaebffb40 (LWP 2985)]
> [New Thread 0xad673b40 (LWP 2986)]
> [New Thread 0xace72b40 (LWP 2987)]
> [New Thread 0xac671b40 (LWP 2988)]
> [New Thread 0xabe70b40 (LWP 2989)]
> [New Thread 0xab66fb40 (LWP 2990)]
>
> Thread 6 "ThreadPoolForeg" received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
> [Switching to Thread 0xac671b40 (LWP 2988)]
> 0x05656790 in ?? ()
> (gdb) disassemble 0x05656790,+16
> Dump of assembler code from 0x5656790 to 0x56567a0:
> => 0x05656790: fisttpll (%esp)
> 0x05656793: mov (%esp),%ecx
> 0x05656796: mov 0x4(%esp),%edx
> 0x0565679a: mov %edx,0x4(%eax)
> 0x0565679d: mov %ecx,(%eax)
> 0x0565679f: jmp 0x56567ba
> End of assembler dump.
> (gdb)
>
> 'fisttp' is an SSE3 instruction; my CPU does not support SSE3. I would have
> expected that Chromium would work on my old CPU since Firefox is specially
> compiled (on Debian) to not use SSE3, and in fact if I'm not mistaken, Firefox
> is compiled not to even need SSE2. (Maybe it does now, I don't know.) I
> must use Chromium since some Web sites I visit (ironically, or maybe
> appropriately, including intel.com) do not work correctly on Firefox or even
> Webkit-based browsers like Midori; sadly I can't upgrade this old workhorse
> right now.
>
> Is there something I can do to get Chromium working? Thanks in advance.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 10.5
> APT prefers oldstable
> APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.8.6 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages chromium depends on:
> ii chromium-common 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1
> ii libasound2 1.1.8-1
> ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.30.0-5
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
> ii libatomic1 8.3.0-6
> ii libatspi2.0-0 2.30.0-7
> ii libavcodec58 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii libavformat58 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii libavutil56 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1
> ii libc6 2.28-10
> ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
> ii libcups2 2.2.10-6+deb10u3
> ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-0+deb10u1
> ii libdrm2 2.4.97-1
> ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4
> ii libexpat1 2.2.6-2+deb10u1
> ii libflac8 1.3.2-3
> ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2
> ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3+deb10u1
> ii libgbm1 18.3.6-2+deb10u1
> ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2
> ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1
> ii libharfbuzz0b 2.3.1-1
> ii libicu63 63.1-6+deb10u1
> ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.2-2+b1
> ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3
> ii liblcms2-2 2.9-3
> ii libminizip1 1.1-8+b1
> ii libnspr4 2:4.20-1
> ii libnss3 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u3
> ii libopenjp2-7 2.3.0-2+deb10u1
> ii libopus0 1.3-1
> ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1
> ii libpng16-16 1.6.36-6
> ii libpulse0 12.2-4+deb10u1
> ii libre2-5 20190101+dfsg-2
> ii libsnappy1v5 1.1.7-1
> ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
> ii libvpx5 1.7.0-3+deb10u1
> ii libwebp6 0.6.1-2
> ii libwebpdemux2 0.6.1-2
> ii libwebpmux3 0.6.1-2
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
> ii libxcb1 1.13.1-2
> ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-2
> ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-3+b3
> ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
> ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1
> ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-7+b3
> ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
> ii libxshmfence1 1.3-1
> ii libxslt1.1 1.1.32-2.2~deb10u1
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
>
> Versions of packages chromium recommends:
> ii chromium-sandbox 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1
>
> Versions of packages chromium suggests:
> pn chromium-driver <none>
> pn chromium-l10n <none>
> pn chromium-shell <none>
>
> Versions of packages chromium-common depends on:
> ii libc6 2.28-10
> ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
> ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
> ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
> ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
> ii x11-utils 7.7+4
> ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1+deb10u1
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
>
> Versions of packages chromium-common recommends:
> ii chromium-sandbox 90.0.4430.212-1~deb10u1
> pn fonts-liberation <none>
> ii libgl1-mesa-dri 18.3.6-2+deb10u1
> pn libu2f-udev <none>
> ii mate-notification-daemon [notification-daemon] 1.20.2-1
> ii upower 0.99.10-1
>
> Versions of packages chromium-sandbox depends on:
> ii libc6 2.28-10
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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