How are you using Chrome Remote Desktop? As a client (ie, connecting to another computer) or a host (ie, sharing your Chromebook with someone else)? At what point does it crash?

Offline, you indicated that this also affects desktop sharing in Hangouts; at what point does it crash in that scenario?

Looking at the crash logs, it looks like this is new in M54, and affects both Chrome and ChromeOS.

Looks like this has already been fixed in https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/2435033002

Requesting merge to M55 branch as it affects not only chromoting, but all Aura-based screen/window capturing in Chrome, including Windows.

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  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/149b81a0e8d4ef9ea107489aa62b6ffc429cba21

commit 149b81a0e8d4ef9ea107489aa62b6ffc429cba21
Author: Sergey Ulanov <sergeyu@chromium.org>
Date: Mon Oct 31 18:36:53 2016

Fix NULL pointer dereference in FinishedAsyncCopyRequest()

Due to undefined (favorably right to left) argument evaluation order,
the tracker might have been passed and set to NULL before the window
is looked up which results in a NULL pointer dereference.

BUG= 659210 

Review-Url: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/2435033002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#426748}
(cherry picked from commit 1b4c64279b7c212242738b96643a0700d04d725c)

Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/2465993002 .

Cr-Commit-Position: refs/branch-heads/2883@{#386}
Cr-Branched-From: 614d31daee2f61b0180df403a8ad43f20b9f6dd7-refs/heads/master@{#423768}

[modify] https://crrev.com/149b81a0e8d4ef9ea107489aa62b6ffc429cba21/ui/snapshot/snapshot_aura.cc

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/149b81a0e8d4ef9ea107489aa62b6ffc429cba21

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Maybe we should try to get this fix into M54 as well.

[Automated comment] Request affecting a post-stable build (M54), manual review required.

No more M54s planned AFAIK.  If you can release out of band and you'd like to, ping me.