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.
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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My new computer ‘verve‘ has been installed. You can see it driving its two monitors. So far so good. Up next: I install OBS Studio and see which of my cameras work. Fingers crossed!
Cables for ‘verve‘ are all in. Just gonna do one boot to make sure it’s all working and then I will put the new tower in its place (to its left, on the right of the bench).
