Chromium fails to boot after recent (today's 12/12/2022) update on RPI

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Just did an update via the software center, restarted the RPI and now I find that Chromium will not run.
When I click on the icon, it appears to start for a second or two, then just stops and no starting screen is shown. Any ideas how to fix this?

Chromium Web Browser version: 107.0.5304.121-1

History shows this relevant entry:
[2022-12-12T12:32:58+0000] [ALPM] upgraded chromium (107.0.5304.87-1 → 107.0.5304.121-1)

My system:
Operating System: Manjaro-ARM
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.100.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 5.15.82-1-MANJARO-ARM-RPI (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × ARM Cortex-A72
Memory: 3.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: V3D 4.2
Product Name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2

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Exact same problem with chromium after update, except I use the MATE desktop and an RPI4 with 8GB memory.

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It seems that chromium did not get a rebuild when re2 was updated, so it’s still looking for a library that no longer exists.

I have just synced in chromium 108 to unstable branch. Can you check if that one works?

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Just found a fix in the update announcement:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-update-2022-12-11-plamo-gear-22-11-cinnamon-5-6-lxqt-1-2-openssl-3-0-and-kernels/128969/6?u=jong

It works. Sorry, I should have found this before I wrote here.

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That is at best a workaround.

I would appreciate it if you can undo the link and then try installing this package to see if that works.

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Please let me know the command to undo the link.

Do I install just by opening the link you give? Please give full instructions as I’m not a linux wizard.

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YES! - I can confirm that the link above works and Chromium started up again.
Thanks for looking into it so quickly. I rely on Chromium for Teams.
Hope it gets updated properly in the software centre soon.

Regards,
AV

PS. paste that line beginning with sudo into the console and hit enter; put in your admin password and it will fix the problem.

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You should do this:

sudo rm /usr/lib/libre2.so.9
wget https://mirror.moson.org/manjaro/arm-unstable/extra/aarch64/chromium-108.0.5359.98-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
sudo pacman -U chromium-108.0.5359.98-2-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz
chromium

If the last command does not launch the browser window, please post the output it generates from the terminal.

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Yes, chromium launches and seems to be working OK.
Nevertheless, I do get the following messages.

[10640:10640:1212/175159.296088:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.297082:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.298251:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.299661:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.301176:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.302640:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.303833:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.308229:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.310363:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.312531:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.314731:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.319555:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.321523:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[10640:10640:1212/175159.323509:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(255)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)

Is this a permanent fix for the problem? If not, please tell me what to do.

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So, it seems the new Chromium package, does indeed fix the issue with the missing library. I will forward it to all branches.

The new ERRORS are related to gpu drivers I think, but not fatal issues.

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