The following update caused the Chromium browser to fail:
Start-Date: 2023-05-23 18:59:16
Commandline: apt-get upgrade libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa
libglx-mesa0 libxatracker2 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vulkan-driver
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Requested-By: userx (1200)
Upgrade: libglx-mesa0:amd64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.
2), libgbm1:amd64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.2), libxat
racker2:amd64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.2), mesa-va-dr
ivers:amd64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.2), libgl1-mesa-
dri:amd64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.2), mesa-vulkan-dr
ivers:amd64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.2), libglapi-mes
a:amd64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.2), libegl-mesa0:amd
64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.2), mesa-vdpau-drivers:am
d64 (22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.1, 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.2)
End-Date: 2023-05-23 18:59:17
To work around I had to toggle off the hardware accel (GPU) to get Chromium to render the settings page, then toggle off the browser setting for the GPU.
$ google-chrome --disable-gpu
Then visit:
chrome://settings/system
Disable hardware acceleration and exit, restart as you normally would.
But why give up the hardware GPU for rendering, what has changed?
The begin of the error output from Chrome is:
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[39080:39080:0528/160509.023513:ERROR:shared_context_state.cc(77)] Skia shader compilation error
// Vertex SKSL
#extension GL_NV_shader_noperspective_interpolation: require
uniform float4 sk_RTAdjust;uniform float3x3 umatrix_S1_c0;in float2 position;in half4 color;in float2 localCoord;flat out half4 vcolor_S0;noperspective out float2 vTransformedCoords_3_S0;void main() {// Primitive Processor QuadPerEdgeAAGeometryProcessor
vcolor_S0 = color;sk_Position = position.xy01;{
vTransformedCoords_3_S0 = float3x2(umatrix_S1_c0) * localCoord.xy1;
}
}
Other Info:
$ dmesg -T | grep Pavilion
DMI: HP HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eg2xxx/89F7, BIOS F.07 08/10/2022
$ lspci | grep NVIDIA
Graphics GPU : 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce MX550] (rev a1)
$ uname -a
Linux Machine 6.1.7 #2 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jan 18 09:26:45 MST 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux
All worked well prior to this update.
As another user posted as a reply, this post seems to address it.
Since 23 May 2023 Ubuntu 22.04 Mesa updates, Chrome won't display website graphics
FireFox was NOT affected for me as they offered.
Removing the cache resolves this until the next update is the claim:
rm ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/GPUCache/*
rm ~/.config/opera/GPUCache/*
That fixed BOTH Opera and Google Chrome.
