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My computer froze because of RAM exhaustion. I performed hard reset. When I launched Chromium, I was getting "Aw, Snap!" error on every page. So I deleted the folder .config/chromium/ and ran apt-get purge chromium and then rebooted and installed again. Unfortunately nothing changed. What should I do now?

Did you recently have a software upgrade, including the kernel?? I had one a couple of days ago. It was about 160 megs worth of updates. After that I got the "Aw Snap" message in Chromium as well. I uninstalled it, removed the cache and config files, reinstalled it and nothing has changed.

I'm in the same boat.

Part II

I don't think I've ever had RAM exhaustion, so I can't offer an answer for that. My usage is probably a lot different than yours. I run Bleachbit at least once a day to clear out my cache files, etc.

I decided to start over with a fresh install of Wheezy.

I first backed up my home directory on an external HD with the command:

tar -pczf home.tar.gz /home

I then reinstalled Wheezy from the original iso disc I created two years ago.

After it was installed, I checked Chromium and it worked fine. I reset my preferences and continued as usual.

After 24 hours, I got an update notice for 350 megs worth of updates. This was for the kernel plus a bunch of other stuff. Previously, the updates occurred over a longer time period, but now it jumps to the newer stuff. I downloaded and installed them.

After the updates, I discovered that Chromium was getting the "Aw Snap" message again, so I'm assuming that the problem is in the updates somewhere.

My theory is once Wheezy updates past a certain point, Chromium stops working (37.0.2062.120-1). You have to move on to Jessie with a newer version of Chromium to keep using it. Or else find a way to install the Jessie/Chromium version on Wheezy.

Part III

The above answers only apply to the 32 bit Wheezy running on an amd64 machine (long story).

I just updated to the amd64 version of Wheezy on the same machine.

I opened Chromium and got the "Aw Snap" message again right out of the gate; no RAM exhaustion or updates needed.

I figure since I'm running a 64 bit OS now, I can just install Google Chrome and not bother with Chromium. I downloaded and tried to install it with GDebi but got the following message:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libstdc++6(>=4.8.0)

Google only ended support for the 32 bit Wheezy, so why is 64 bit getting this message??

I'll probably ask this as a new question.

Part IV

Here's my question:
Can't install Google Chrome on amd64 Wheezy

Answer/Comment

I'm wondering if you've tried installing chromium from the wheezy backports. Maybe that version works? Put

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main

In your sources.list and then download chromium again. (after purging) You should probably delete your current package lists and comment out your other sources before updating/upgrading, to avoid any conflicts.

What sucks about google chrome is there aren't really error logs unless you enable crash reports and those get sent to google.

What does uname -a say for you? And what version of Chromium are you using? These things are important if you want to file a bug report.

My other suggestion is to just download the tarball [Warning - it's over 2GB]
It's probably more recent than your .deb (debian's chromium package)

The next time your system freezes from memory exhaustion, you can try invoking the OOM killer manually before resorting to a hard reset.



1) Add or change kernel.sysrq=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf and run sysctl -p.

2) When the system is out of memory, press Alt+SysRq+f to kill a process.

Chrome uses a lot of RAM while running. To fix this issue, create some swap space on your hard drive by creating a new partition using fdisk/gdisk/parted/whatever then create a swap filesystem on that partition

mkswap /dev/sdX

assuming /dev/sdX is the partition you created.
Next, enable the swap space

swapon /dev/sdX

Finally, add a line to /etc/fstab to mount the swap space automatically on boot

/dev/sdX none swap defaults 0 0

Execute the command mount -a to mount the swap space

This partition will hold data that was in memory when there is no memory left. It is like extending RAM but with slower access.