The problem was caused by /dev/shm being completely full. I have reduced the size of my tmpfs partitions
$ ll totale 20480 -rw-r--r-- 1 salvo salvo 29616 mar 6 00:20 org.chromium.Chromium.shmem.libcef_16921316043524833406 -rw-r--r-- 1 salvo salvo 29616 feb 26 19:15 org.chromium.Chromium.shmem.libcef_17323857834844570422 -rw-r--r-- 1 salvo salvo 29616 mar 8 11:07 org.chromium.Chromium.shmem.libcef_2555746914744788424 -rw-r--r-- 1 salvo salvo 29616 mar 5 23:51 org.chromium.Chromium.shmem.libcef_5902263162203058704 -rwx------ 1 salvo salvo 67108904 mar 8 16:50 pulse-shm-2470942969 -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 1040 mar 8 11:07 salvo-Shm_125376fc -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 1048592 mar 8 11:07 salvo-Shm_3d9d4079 -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 1048592 mar 8 16:49 salvo-Shm_5ef0bc52 -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 1048592 mar 8 16:49 salvo-Shm_5ff1e3fa -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 16777232 mar 8 16:49 salvo-Shm_73f8ed5a -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 524304 mar 8 16:49 salvo-Shm_9bbcab5d -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 10944 mar 8 11:07 salvo-Shm_eec7db1e -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 524304 mar 8 16:49 salvo-Shm_fd26f914 -rwxr-xr-x 1 salvo salvo 65536 feb 26 19:15 salvo-ValveIPCSharedObjects5 I don't know the origin of all the salvo-Shm* files, a few seem to be leftovers by previous chromium instances (since it's a tmpfs that counts as memory leak I guess). And the big pulse file i don't know either because: dpkg -l | fgrep pulse ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 4.0-6+b1 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support) ii libpulse0:amd64 4.0-6+b1 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries ii libpulse0:i386 4.0-6+b1 i386 PulseAudio client libraries Best -- Salvo Tomaselli "Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno." -- Galileo Galilei http://ltworf.github.io/ltworf/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org