[PLASMA 5] Chromium not opening

[Grahm]

No matter how many times I click on Chromium ( since last week ) it won't open at all, for one user account. I opened a new account to test, and Chromium opens when clicked on the icon. It is only on one login this problem is happening. Any chance that someone knows a fix for this issue ?

Looks like Chromium is added as a Snap package.

[verndog]

If you try open it using the command line, is there an error message?

[Grahm]

Yes, like this

$ snap run chromium
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to open i915 (search paths /snap/chromium/1229/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri)
failed to load driver: i915
MESA-LOADER: failed to open kms_swrast (search paths /snap/chromium/1229/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri)
failed to load driver: kms_swrast
MESA-LOADER: failed to open swrast (search paths /snap/chromium/1229/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri)
failed to load swrast driver
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

[claydoh]

Have you tried perhaps removing/moving your Chromium configs?

Also I think Chromium is actually called by a script at /usr/bin/chromium-browser, not by snap run chromium, you might want to call it by simply using the chromium-browser
command. Or check and see what the menu entry for it is using on the user account where it is not working. I think those errors could be from calling it via snap directly.


Also, this is the first search hit on the error messages:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1259...n-ubuntu-20-04

[Grahm]

Thanks. I got this

$ chromium-browser

Command 'chromium-browser' not found, but can be installed with:

apt install chromium-browser
Please ask your administrator.

Have you tried perhaps removing/moving your Chromium configs?

How can I do that ?

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Followed the AskUbuntu thread. Deleted the .fonts folder. Chromium works. Now I restored the folder. And Chromium won't work again.

[Grahm]

Moved everything from .fonts folder to another folder and then deleted the .fonts folder. Then created a new .fonts folder and added only legible font formats. Now Chromium is working fine. Thanks for the help.