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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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