Repository: dnschneid/crouton

Issue #1429: Chrome keeps randomly rebooting when Crouton is mounted
Created: 2015-02-21T11:22:05Z
It seems to be a random occurrence that started over the last few days. I will mount crouton and have it running while I watch video in the Chrome environment and the Chrome system will randomly reboot. I use crouton to run torrents, so Transmission will be running in xfce. I'm not sure if the issue is related to the video player in Chrome. It happened once when I adjusted the volume on my keyboard but that may have just been coincidence. I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting the issue or providing relevant logs to look for bugs.
Can any one advise how I might find information to provide here to see if there is a bug? Obviously I never get a chance to see what is happening in crosh because the system reboots and the previous shell information is gone when it reboots.
crouton: version 1-20150214193521~master:fe8e6dee
release: precise
architecture: amd64
xmethod: xorg
targets: xfce
host: version 6457.94.0 (Official Build) stable-channel swanky

Duplicate issue #1417: reboot on opening lid.
Created: 2015-02-18T06:40:29Z
Hi,
I can read some are experiencing the same problem as I do but there's no issue only for the problem in spite of the severity.
My pixel sometimes reboots on opening the lid and it only happens when I was running enter-chroot or startxfce4 before I close the lid. It's too risky for loosing all sessions and data that I have been working on and also tricky to reproduce though I had try to avoid several things I suspected not to experience it again but it continues to happen once or twice a week.
Here's what I have tried to avoid with no specific ground but I felt like the issue have been repeated under those circumstances,

closing the lid while I'm working on linux desktop environment (xfce)
not leaving a tab running enter-chroot (just for shell environment) or startxfce4 focused before closing the lid.
opening the lid when the battery is almost running out.
closing the lid with leaving Files app opened and Downloads focused

So I always tried to

move focus to one of other tabs of chrome native browser except the crosh tab before closing the lid
connect a charger before opening the lid
close Files app before closing the lid

I'm not sure about xscreensaver does matter as some have been mentioning even though I move focus to chrome native browser before closing the lid. Anyway I have no screen saver installed and I'm still meeting the problem.
I think we need to gather some experiments to find out under what circumstance it happens.
crouton: version 1-20150127081428~master:e1bcac2b
release: trusty
architecture: amd64
targets: x11,keyboard,audio,cli-extra,xiwi,extension,touch,xfce
host: version 6457.83.0 (Official Build) stable-channel link
Any other information needed, just ask.

Closing comment (2015-02-22T09:00:07Z): I wonder if this is similar to #1429.  Likewise, (and sorry for the blatant copy-paste), could you please repro the issue, then on reboot, run generate_logs in the crosh shell and file a (separate) bug on crbug.com, and link it here? It's probably a kernel panic that we need to make the Chromium OS team aware of.