Chrome 18 keeps crashing

[krytie]

Hi,
I'm using the AMI image "IE9/Chrome/Firefox - ami-0f7eae66". Recently when I execute a test using Chrome 18, chrome will launch but will immediately crash with the error "Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Relaunch now?" and terminate. If I open up chrome manually it runs fine.

I'm guessing that because this just started failing that maybe this is a result of chrome updating itself? Is anyone else having this problem or how can i best debug it?

FWIW firefox works fine

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Here's the log from the Event Viewer

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-04-12T01:59:42.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>3096</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>ip-0A02B528</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>chrome.exe</Data>
<Data>18.0.1025.152</Data>
<Data>4f83350d</Data>
<Data>chrome.dll</Data>
<Data>18.0.1025.152</Data>
<Data>4f8334a6</Data>
<Data>c0000005</Data>
<Data>004831e2</Data>
<Data>afc</Data>
<Data>01cd184fe7e4467f</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

[pmeenan]

Try grabbing the latest version of the Chrome agent code just to make sure you are running the same code that the public instance is:

- Download http://www.webpagetest.org/work/update/wptupdate.zip
- Put the zip file in your /work/update directory
- Extract wptupdate.ini from the zip file and put it in /work/update as well

I'm using the AMI quite regularly for testing and haven't had any problems with it but it could be because I'm on a newer agent codebase.

[krytie]

Hi Patrick,

Thanks that fixed it.

Just out of curiosity, at what point does the server push the update to the client?

[pmeenan]

When the clients poll for work, they include their current software version. If the server has a different version available then that is pushed to the client instead of the job. So the clients should not process any new jobs until they are updated (effectively immediately).

[prateek.papriwal]

I have updated the test agents using https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.o...st-Agents.

But while I do the test in chrome and firefox, they crash, though on restoring they give results.