This morning I used Chromium without any problems. This afternoon it won't start up. I tried the usual walking away to make a cup of tea while a snap thinks about starting up trick, but nope, it never appeared.
Runnning chromium-browser
from the command line gave:
WARNING: Kernel has no file descriptor comparison support: Operation not permitted
[0118/155937.850543:ERROR:ptracer.cc(567)] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0118/155937.850638:ERROR:ptracer.cc(567)] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0118/155937.869643:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) chromium
Although now (after logging out and in again) it gives:
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: symbol lookup error: ln: undefined symbol: , version GLIBC_2.2.5
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: symbol lookup error: ln: undefined symbol: , version GLIBC_2.2.5
/snap/chromium/2271/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome: /snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1: unsupported version 0 of Verdef record
/snap/chromium/2271/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: /snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1: unsupported version 0 of Verneed record
The snap-store app also crashes:
ln: symbol lookup error: ln: undefined symbol: , version GLIBC_2.2.5
/snap/snap-store/638/usr/bin/snap-store: symbol lookup error: /snap/snap-store/638/gnome-platform/usr/lib/libwayland-cursor.so.0: undefined symbol: wl_buffer_interface
I did a snap refresh
and it tells me they're all up-to date. I did snap list
and they all have green ticks (except one which has a ✪ symbol).
I did a snap remove chromium; snap install chromium
and now it gives more errors
ln: ln: no version information available (required by ln)
ln: symbol lookup error: ln: undefined symbol: , version GLIBC_2.2.5
/snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3-0/gtk-query-immodules-3.0: /snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1: unsupported version 0 of Verdef record
/snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3-0/gtk-query-immodules-3.0: error while loading shared libraries: /snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1: unsupported version 0 of Verneed record
ERROR: /snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3-0/gtk-query-immodules-3.0 exited abnormally with status 127
/snap/chromium/2271/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome: /snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1: unsupported version 0 of Verdef record
/snap/chromium/2271/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: /snap/chromium/2271/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdatrie.so.1: unsupported version 0 of Verneed record
My system is up-to-date on Ubuntu 22.04, running Wayland (I mention as it's mentioned in the logs, and well, it often breaks). I have not updated my kernel or anything between it working this morning and failing now.
I'm keen to get Chromium working again as it's the only browser that works to do screensharing over WebRTC sites properly on Wayland.
Thanks in advance!