Chromium crashes Trinity

Edwin · 2025-12-21 02:25

When visiting a certain site (teams.microsoft.com), the Chromium page crashes with an error code 4.

But that is not all, Trinity is also affected: some fonts display as squares, icons are gone, I cannot start any programs.

Why is this happening and is there a solution for this?

Memory is very limited (2 GB), but I don't think it's a memory problem, there is still 800+ MB free wirh Chromium running.

In windows you have something like GDI objects. Maybe Linux has something like that too as this looks like a problem with graphics resources as fonts are not displaying correctly anymore and icons are gone...

Anyone any ideas?

bin · 2025-12-21 09:02

This error message is not uncommon and is not limited to Q4OS or even linux - it happens everywhere.
First thing to do is to open Konsole and enter inxi -Fxxxmprz
Copy and paste the output back here so we can see what hardware you are using.
Then try going to Chromium Settings>System> Disable Hardware Acceleration and see if that helps.

You will no doubt get a number of responses telling you to use Firefox or Brave or Waterfox or a million other possibilities.
Just take one step at a time.

Last edited by bin (2025-12-21 09:02)

Edwin · 2025-12-21 17:54

Hi bin, thanks for your reply.

It seems that it was caused by file system corruption, as after a reinstall it works.

Is there a way to recover from file system corruption? I'm running Q4OS on a Intel Compute Stick with a built-in MMC card, so not the most reliable, and restart/shutdown don't work with this stick, so eventually I have to restart it by power cycling.

Is there a command to verify and fix os file corruption or reset caches etc? I already had to use e2fck a few times because the file system was dirty, but it probably did some damage resulting in Chromium crashing and subsequently crashing the window manager.

(I had to google what to type to fix the problems and continue booting, while a "go fix and continue" option would have been nice for the average user;-)

The output of inxi -Fxxxmprz is this:

System:
Kernel: 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0
clocksource: tsc
Desktop: TDE (Trinity) v: R14.1.5 tk: Qt v: 3.5.0 wm: Twin v: 3.0
with: kicker vt: 7 dm: 1: TDM 2: XDM Distro: Q4OS 6.4.1-deb13u1 base: Debian
GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Intel Client Systems product: STK1AW32SC v: H93326-109
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: Intel Corporation type: 3 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Intel model: STK1AW32SC v: H91596-307 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Intel v: SCCHTAX5.86A.0041.2018.0620.1803
date: 06/20/2018
Memory:
System RAM: total: 2 GiB available: 1.86 GiB used: 1.3 GiB (70.1%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: 8 GiB slots: 2 modules: 1 EC: Multi-bit ECC
max-module-size: 4 GiB note: est.
Device-1: A1_DIMM0 type: DDR3 detail: N/A size: 2 GiB speed: 1600 MT/s
volts: curr: 1.35 min: 2 max: 2 width (bits): data: 8 total: 64
manufacturer: Hynix Semiconductor part-no: N/A serial: N/A
Device-2: A1_DIMM1 type: no module installed
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Atom x5-Z8330 bits: 64 type: MCP
smt: <unsupported> arch: Airmont rev: 4 cache: L1: 224 KiB L2: 2 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 480 min/max: 480/1920 cores: 1: 480 2: 480 3: 480 4: 480
bogomips: 11520
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx
Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-8 ports:
active: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:22b0 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: YGTek Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-2.4:5 chip-ID: 1d6c:1278 class-ID: 0102
serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 compositor: Twin v: 3.0 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-2 model: AOC 24P2W1DG5 serial: <filter>
res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 93
size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65") diag: 604mm (23.8") modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus platforms: device: 0 drv: crocus
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless: drv: crocus x11:
drv: crocus inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics (CHV)
device-ID: 8086:22b0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 4 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0
type: integrated-gpu driver: mesa intel device-ID: 8086:22b0 device: 1
type: cpu driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: YGTek Webcam driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-2.4:5 chip-ID: 1d6c:1278 class-ID: 0102
serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.12.57+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: aRts v: 1.5.10 status: active with: artswrapper status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.2 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:095a class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a
class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2
lmp-v: 8 sub-v: 1000 hci-v: 8 rev: 1000 class-ID: 6c0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 29.12 GiB used: 8.1 GiB (27.8%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 vendor: HP model: DF4032 size: 29.12 GiB
type: Removable tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0x8 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 26.07 GiB used: 7.86 GiB (30.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 974.1 MiB used: 8.8 MiB (0.9%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/mmcblk0p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 1.51 GiB used: 241.4 MiB (15.6%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/mmcblk0p3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1931
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10_q4os.sources
1: deb http://q4os.org/q4repo/ q4os-6-0-cn main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/12_qtde.sources
1: deb http://q4os.org/qtderepo/ trixie main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/20_debian.sources
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ trixie-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
3: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/30_debian_backports.sources
Info:
Processes: 225 Power: uptime: 27m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
Compilers: gcc: 14 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.38

bin · 2025-12-22 08:45

Well, I think you certainly deserve an award for the most unusual Q4OS device install for 2026.

File system fixing really needs to be done by booting from a live media. Trying to fix a file system while you are running it is a bit like trying to change the oil in your car while driving it.

When you want to shut down, try Ctrl+Alt+F6 to get to a command/TTY login. That combo may vary - Ctrl+Alt+F3 - F6 is a better explanation.
Login and then do
sudo shutdown -h now
or
sudo systemctl poweroff

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