Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading Chromium on Debian 13 (Trixie, stable) from
139.0.7258.154-1~deb13u1 to 141.0.7390.65-1~deb13u1, starting Chromium
immediately causes a complete system hang. The workstation becomes
entirely unresponsive and requires a hard reboot. This behavior is new
in the latest version and does not occur with the previous version.

System details:
- Debian 13 Trixie (stable)
- Kernel: 6.12.48+deb13-amd64
- GPU: AMD Pitcairn PRO [Radeon HD 7850 / R7 265 / R9 270], using
`radeon` driver
- Mesa: 25.0.7-2 (libegl-mesa0, libgl1-mesa-dri, mesa-vulkan-drivers,
etc.)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install chromium 141.0.7390.65-1~deb13u1 from trixie-security.
2. Launch chromium.
3. Whole system freezes, requires hard reset.

Workarounds:
- Downgrading to chromium 139.0.7258.154-1~deb13u1 resolves the issue.
- With the older version the system is stable.

This seems to be a regression introduced between Chromium 139.x and
141.x.

Thank you for your work on maintaining Chromium in Debian.

Best regards,

Hi,

This is likely a bug related to your GPU.  Please run chromium 141 with
the '--disable-gpu' option and to see if that keeps it from crashing.

Thanks,
Andres

Hi Andreas,

this very same bug does not only affect chromium but all
V8/node.js-based apps.

`--disable-gpu` indeed does the trick, so your assumption seems true.

on my desktop computer it is present:
```
$ inxi --graphics
Graphics:
    Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Redwood PRO [Radeon HD
      5550/5570/5630/6510/6610/7570] driver: radeon v: kernel
    Device-2: Microdia USB Live camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
      type: USB
    Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
      compositor: gnome-shell v: 48.5 driver: X: loaded: vesa
      unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon gpu: radeon resolution:
2560x1440~60Hz
    API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,r600,swrast
      platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
    API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.2.5-1 renderer: AMD REDWOOD (DRM
      2.50.0 / 6.16.12+deb14+1-amd64 LLVM 19.1.7)
    API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 drivers: llvmpipe surfaces: N/A
    Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo wl: wayland-info
      x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
```

on my laptop chrome works fine:
```
# inxi --graphics
Graphics:
   Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v:
kernel
   Device-2: Chicony HD WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
   Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
     driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
     resolution: 2560x1600~60Hz
   API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms:
gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
   API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.2.5-1
     renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
   Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo wl: kanshi,wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
     xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
```


regards
Martin

On Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:23:48 -0400 Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
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Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Can you please tell me if this
problem still occurs on chromium 143.0.7499.109?

Hi Franz,

Unfortunately your mail provider has blocked my mail server, but please
see the followup on the bug.

Thanks,
Andres

Hi,
AMD GPU as well.

```
inxi --graphics
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD
    7750/8740 / R7 250E] driver: radeon v: kernel
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.9 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
    compositor: gnome-shell v: 49.2 driver: X: loaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
    dri: radeonsi gpu: radeon resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,radeonsi,swrast
    platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.3.2-2 renderer: VERDE (radeonsi
    ACO DRM 2.51 6.17.13+deb14-amd64)
  API: Vulkan Message: No Vulkan data available.
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo gpu: radeontop wl: swaymsg
    x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
```

With 143.0.7499.169 my system doesn't freeze anymore immediately, when I run
chromium. But I have a lot of graphical artifacts, when chromium is
running on Wayland with GPU acceleration.

Probably this is upstream issue: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/470919961

Since this is specific to a certain GPU and happens with a non-default
setting (ozone-platform set to wayland instead of auto or x11), I'm
lowering the severity. Please follow up when this ends up getting fixed
with your GPU in wayland.