Comment 7 for bug 965314

Actually - the work-around for this issue is to disable sync. If you cannot get Chromium to stay up, you'll have to delete your Chromium configuration:

1. cd ~/.config
2. rm -rf chromium
3. restart chromium - it should now stay up, as long as you don't "sign in" to chromium

These steps work for me and prevent Chromium from failing - if somebody has a case where Chromium still fails, even with sync disabled, then that's a different problem from what I'm observing on my installation.