chromium broken (almost entirely)

[Snowhog]

In addition, for others that tread behind. Don't use command "sudo apt-get install chromium" b/c you'll install a game.

You need to use the command: "sudo apt-get chromium-browser"

Ooops! Thank you. I've corrected my post.

[nhtrader]

Purge chromium again. Then, in a console, remove the chromium configuration directory/files and the chromium cache directory/files with:

rm -R ~/.cache/chromium
rm -R ~/.config/chromium

Then reinstall chromium:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium

Did as you prescribed - no joy. Still getting error Pages Unresponsive. Deleting both the user profiles and the cache didn't help.

In addition, for others that tread behind. Don't use command "sudo apt-get install chromium" b/c you'll install a game.

You need to use the command: "sudo apt-get chromium-browser"

[bra|10n]

chromium worked for months, but then it suddenly stopped working for yahoo.com and its own preferences page.

Yahoo mail is notorious for sporadic outages. They adopt a "ssshhh" policy believing nobody will notice.

Some people did notice...

http://www.zdnet.com.au/yahoo-mail-s...-339331238.htm

[Snowhog]

And now a fresh/clean install of chromium doesn't fix the problem.

Any suggestions?

Purge chromium again. Then, in a console, remove the chromium configuration directory/files and the chromium cache directory/files with:

rm -R ~/.cache/chromium
rm -R ~/.config/chromium

Then reinstall chromium:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

[nhtrader]

kubuntu 10.04 (amd64)
kde 4.4.5
repository: http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
repository: http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner (Source Code)


I also can't use chromium 16.0.912.77 (Developer Build 118311 Linux) Ubuntu 10.04
Always get Pages Unresponsive error.

But fortunately, FireFox works great - no trouble. So lack of memory should not be the problem, nor is internet connection the problem.

I also uninstalled Chromium then turned off PC for a complete turn-on/reboot; then reinstalled Chromium using kpackagekit. It installed two packages: Chromium 16.0.912 and chromium-codec-ffmpeg

I can add that the problem started after I did some cleanup by using...
command "sudo apt-get purge firefox" (yes, I mean firefox b/c I was noticed that I had several older versions of firefox and wanted all old versions deleted)
Then "apt" displayed a message notifying me that there were several unused packages that could be removed using "autoremove"
So I used the command "sudo apt-get autoremove"

It is at this point, chromium died. I didn't pay any attention to which packages were removed, so I don't know their names.

And now a fresh/clean install of chromium doesn't fix the problem.

Any suggestions?

[likes2skate]

> And which version of Chromium were you using that broke?

16.0.912.77 (Developer Build 118311 Linux) Ubuntu 10.04

The one that came automatically by doing "aptitude install chromium".

[likes2skate]

> Out of curiosity - did you try the suggestion of installing Chrome and trying that?

I finally installed Chrome, and at least for now, it is working fine.

I downloaded it by clicking on the "Install Chrome" button on www.google.com.

The last I reported, Chromium was working, but after that, it mostly did not work. Out of desperation, I finally tried Chrome, and now I wish I had tried it sooner.

[SteveRiley]

Re: chromium broken (almost entirely)

No need for you to apologize.

You mentioned that you're now running Chromium from the repositories. Which repository would that be? There are four separate PPAs for chromium-browser.

And which version of Chromium were you using that broke?

[likes2skate]

Re: chromium broken (almost entirely)

Actually, I am from Seattle but Wallingford not Fremont. I live overseas at the moment, but I return to Seattle several times per year. Of course I know the troll and Lenin statues well.

I installed chromium from the repositories. No, I did not try downloading the linux version of chrome.

Today, chromium is working fine. At least, I am in yahoo using chromium. (I am in kubuntuforums.net using konq.)

I cannot explain why it would be not working for two weeks but suddenly working again. Maybe because my computer was turned off over the holiday weekend, and I turned it on fresh a while ago. (Do you have a better explanation?)

Thanks and sorry for the trouble.

[SteveRiley]

Re: chromium broken (almost entirely)

Allow me to add my apologies, too. Teasing you with our bridge troll certainly didn't help.

I hope you enjoyed the photo, though! The troll is in the Fremont neighborhood, the self-proclaimed "center of the known universe." This neighborhood also has a 16-foot bronze statue of Vladimir Lenin. It's currently for sale at the bargain dictator price of $250,000.

[dibl]

Re: chromium broken (almost entirely)

@likes2skate, I apologize -- I completely misunderstood the intent of your original and second posts.

Did you install Chrome from a downloaded package, or did you install chromium-browser from the 10.04 repository? Using the package from the repositories, chromium-browser is working perfectly on 11.10 today, including flash and java.

[HalationEffect]

Re: chromium broken (almost entirely)

Out of curiosity - did you try the suggestion of installing Chrome and trying that?

If so, did it have the same problem?

[likes2skate]

Re: chromium broken (almost entirely)

I was the OP, and I did mention www.flickr.com. This is because I normally use chromium for google mail & docs, yahoo and flickr. My main email address is on yahoo, and I mostly have my kid's photos on flickr, mostly for the kid's grandparents. Since chromium broke, it hangs on google mail & docs and yahoo but not flickr. More telling, chromium hangs on its own preferences page -- as my screen shot shows.

I did not post my flickr photo link, but if someone is really interested, I could send it privately.

I use konq for some stuff and firefox for some stuff. I use konq for most everything that works in konq. As anyone who has used konq knows, not every web site works in konq.

Since the google chromium forum was of no help, I was hoping that I could get help here.

BTW, I have (more than once) uninstalled and reinstalled chromium, and deleted the chromium directory in ~/.config.

[HalationEffect]

Re: chromium broken (almost entirely)

Sorry guys, but I'm pretty horrified by this thread. I just don't see where the OP did anything wrong.

It looks to me like he came here, asking for help, and has been labelled as a troll simply for posting a link to the flickr.com home page... I don't see how that is justified, unless I'm missing something.

[ardvark71]

Re: chromium broken (almost entirely)

He means this post is designed to get "hits" on the OP's flikr page...

Oh, ok, thank you.

Regards...