Chrome 18 keeps crashing

WebPageTest Private Instances
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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[hr]
Here’s the log from the Event Viewer

  • 1000 2 100 0x80000000000000 3096 Application ip-0A02B528
  • chrome.exe 18.0.1025.152 4f83350d chrome.dll 18.0.1025.152 4f8334a6 c0000005 004831e2 afc 01cd184fe7e4467f
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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:

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.

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Hi Patrick,

Thanks that fixed it.

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

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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).

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I have updated the test agents using https://sites.google.com/a/webpagetest.org/docs/private-instances#TOC-Updating-Test-Agents.

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