A computer of mine that has the same problem has no hardware acceleration, even for 2D graphics, (it runs in VESA mode). @martin: Is it also your case ?

Also, when the crash happens, reloading chrome and re-opening the page makes it crash right away. However, going on the same pages a few hours latter does not trigger the crash.
Maybe it is related to some advertisement on the pages ?

Sorry for the having forgotten to mention that, but I'm on 14.0.835.202 (Official Build 103287) .
If you are interested, I can trigger the bug quite easily on that computer.

@1 no, that's not the case for me - yours may be a different bug...

Some further information from recent experimentation:

* The crash only occurs when opening a page with a password field.
* launching chromium with --password-store=basic fixes the problem as far as I can tell.

Therefore this must be related to the gnome keyring...

I now seem to have resolved this behaviour as follows:

1. Went into "passwords and keys" (seahorse?) and found a keyring called "Passwords: login" which appeared to contain my chromium saved passwords (synced from my other computers).
2. Deleted this entire keyring
3. Deleted ~/.config/chromium
4. Rebooted for good measure
5. Re-ran chromium and set up sync.

I can no longer reproduce the crash. 

Perhaps this was caused by some corrupted or incomplete data in my gnome keyring being badly handled by chromium?

This sounds like some of the issues we have been seeing lately with the gnome keyring (including random crashes triggered by attempts to interact with the keyring): 98601. Duping as the issue is currently worked on, please feel free to append with respective crash IDs if it still repros.

Just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and was able to use Chromium version 14.0.835.202~r103287-0ubuntu1. 

After rebooting Chromium crashes immediately with the error message:
ERROR:nss_util.cc(397)] Error initializing NSS without a persistent database:
for a list of files.
The final message is 'Segmentation fault' and Chromium crashes. 

Running with the option '--password-store=basic' generates the same errors but Chromium doesn't fall over. 

#6 - the NSS errors are probably unrelated - see  issue 91962 . There's a workaround in comments 31/32 there.

@annapop - that issue does indeed sound like what happened prior to me experiencing this problem.

Thanks for the update.

This is a gnome-keyring bug - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662025

Thank running the command line google-chrome --password-store=basic 
works fine. Thanks to comment6

"google-chrome --password-store=basic" fixes random crashes on pages asking for some kind of password, on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Spanish or Catalan, both fresh installs or upgrades from previous versions of Ubuntu and Chrome. Looks like a "gnome keyring" problem to me.

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