[Discuss] chrome

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On 1/24/22 13:20, dan moylan wrote:
> i've been having issues with chrome -- getting a lot of
> force-quit/wait popups.  i shut down and rebooted --
> couldn't get google to come up, saw error messages "ill
> formed disk image".  dnf removed google-chrome and then
> tried dnf install google-chrome-stable.x86_64 and got some
> kind of error message.  wanting to check on exactly what the
> message was, i retried it and voila! it installed.  great,
> however launching google-chrome& i got the following:
>
> moylan ~[1004] google-chrome&
> [1] 38556
> moylan ~[1005]
> [38556:38598:0124/131700.591774:ERROR:database.cc(1773)]
> SQLite error: code 11 errno -2: database disk image is
> malformed sql: INSERT INTO urls (id, url, title,
> visit_count, typed_count, last_visit_time, hidden) SELECT
> id, url, title, visit_count, typed_count, last_visit_time,
> hidden FROM history.urls WHERE typed_count > 0
>
> libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown
> libva error, driver_name = (null)
>
> [38618:38618:0124/131700.642028:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(378)]
> InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process
> gpu-process.
>
> [38556:38603:0124/131700.725633:ERROR:database.cc(1773)]
> Thumbnail SQLite error: code 11 errno 0: database disk image
> is malformed sql: SELECT id FROM favicons WHERE url=? AND
> icon_type=?
>
> [1]+  Segmentation fault      (core dumped) google-chrome
>
> what's going on?  any suggestions?
>
> tia,
> ole dan

There have been some problems with recent versions of Chromium that 
likely made their way into Google Chrome. The problem I'm experiencing 
is when I launch Chromium, it /almost always/ tells me it didn't close 
properly the last time it was used and asks if I want to reload the tabs 
from the last session, in which there were none to load in.

I've been using Firefox 99% of the time, since this problem with 
Chromium started.

OS is Mageia (8), also using dnf for package management. 
Removed/reinstalled Chromium, problem persists. <shrug>


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