So I use Chromium for work. I installed it through Discovery and selected the "From Fedora Linux" option. It's worked fine for months. Then this morning, I closed out of it then opened it up later and it simply would not launch. It gives the little bouncy icon for a moment, then nothing. So I fiddle around with it, and downloaded the flatpak version, which worked, but I don't want it. Any idea how I can get it back up and running?

Running Plasma 6.1.5, Wayland. I already tried hopping into the Gnome desktop and that didn't work. Thanks in advance!

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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    2 months ago

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2316533

    Chromium browser does not launch because it is missing OpenCL

    Installing ocl-icd fixes this problem

      • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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        2 months ago

        went looking for reasons chromium wouldn’t start and there’s a bug dated today with that, not sure if that is the issue or what would have caused it

        running chromium-browser from the terminal would be what to try and see if there is an error, if it is the one above according to the bug report it’ll spit out /usr/bin/chromium-browser: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

        if it’s that, according to the bug report, dnf install ocl-icd should fix it

        if there’s a different error can update the post with what it says