[New-bugs-announce] [issue46489] webbrowser crashes Ubuntu kernel

[Danylo]

New submission from Danylo <dizcza at gmail.com>:

I've been hunting this problem for half a year already. With other hypotheses rejected - Linux issue, old PC, PyCharm bug, bad luck, - the webbrowser Python lib supposedly makes the Ubuntu kernel panic.

Either from a terminal or within PyCharm (happens on both), I run

```
    controller = webbrowser.get('google-chrome')
    for link in links_list:  # up to 10 items
        controller.open(link)
        time.sleep(1)
```

and the system crashes (hangs until a hard or soft reset) after several web pages are opened in my Chrome browser as the result of running the program.

All the details you'll find at https://askubuntu.com/questions/1370213/ubuntu-hangs-and-becomes-unresponsive-until-reset. I first thought it's something wrong with Ubuntu, and I opened a question on the forum.

The only detail I've not added there is that after each crash I can move the mouse on the screen but cannot interact with anything. That thing always puzzled me.

I can neither say the website I'm running the webbrowser nor test it on other domains - the issue happens sporadically, once in several hours of me opening and closing a Chrome browser controlled by the webbrowser lib.

Python 3.9.7, installed with Anaconda. I've tried older versions of Python.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 411396
nosy: dizcza
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: webbrowser crashes Ubuntu kernel
type: crash
versions: Python 3.9

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