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!

  • dannoffs [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Have you tried launching it from the terminal and seeing if it reports an error?

        • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          Ohhhkay! Thanks for clearing that up. Here's the error output:

          [70532:70532:1005/105835.024179:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(358)] The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (98887) on another computer (fedora). Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium. [70532:70532:1005/105835.024259:ERROR:message_box_dialog.cc(189)] Unable to show message box: Chromium - The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium process (98887) on another computer (fedora). Chromium has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chromium.

        • dannoffs [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Crazy that fedora hasn't updated command just in case someone wants to play the boring SHMUP lol, on arch and debian it's just "chromium"

      • dannoffs [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Yes all lowercase but that should work. It sounds almost like chromium got uninstalled or moved. Try uninstalling through discover and reinstalling, if that doesn't work go to your application menu and right click on the chromium launcher and select "edit application" then click the "Application" tab, the "Program" field should say where it's looking for the chromium binary, what does it say there? Also if you type "which chromium" into the terminal, what does it say?

  • 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