Chromium bug fixed!

For the past month or so I’ve had this intermittent problem where chromium would start crashing and would keep crashing every time I tried to start it until I rebooted.

Today I ran chromium under strace and straightaway discovered that it was trying to use shared memory in /dev/shm and it couldn’t because there was no space left.

There was no space left because I had PHP’s xdebug writing dump files there. I’ve just disabled xdebug while I’m not using it and after clearing out its old files I can now run chromium again.

I added a note about this to my debugging notes for in case this or something like it happens to me again.

Interlude #3: Demo Of The New Studio Cameras – Now In 4K! | In The Lab With Jay Jay

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Old Book: Vest Pocket Guide To Electrical Testing And Troubleshooting by John E. Traister published 1987 with 130 pages.

Today is just a quick video to demo my new camera setup made possible by my new studio workstation ‘verve‘.

In the video I demo the new mat/bench camera which supports various zoom levels. Then I demo the iPod touch camera for showing some of the bench equipment. Then I demo the HDMI system which supports two microscopes, the MSO5074 oscilloscope, and the AV switch which usually would show the Xbox among other things (but I couldn’t get the Xbox to work in this video, drats). Finally I demo the thermal cam.

Sorry for the dodgy audio in this video. I will try to make sure that doesn’t happen in future videos.

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