chromium 9 can't open any page

[Evan Martin]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:12 PM, George Liaskos <geo.liaskos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to debug chrome in gdb?
> I believe that the rendering thread for some reason time outs on 8.x.

Though this page has Linux in the title, almost all of the advice
should apply on FreeBSD as well:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxDebugging

> The chrome executable is over 1.5GB

That sounds about right.

> I tried ./chrome --renderer-cmd-prefix='xterm -e gdb72 --args'
> so i can get a backtrace but gdb dies, i added 4 more gigs of memory
> to my desktop (total 8GB) but it didn't make any difference.

Some other options:
- get a core dump and run gdb on that.  (Search for "core" on the
above wiki page for some notes.)
- if gdb is running out of memory, try building a binary with fewer
debugging symbols:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxFasterBuilds#Build_WebKit_without_debug_symbols