Call for testing: chromium 65.0.3325.146

oSoMoN · March 8, 2018, 9:21am

Call for testing: chromium 65.0.3325.146

Description

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web.

Version 65.0.3325.146 is the latest stable release from Google.

How to install

snap install chromium --candidate

Note that the snap can coexist with the ubuntu packages. If you wish to remove the ubuntu packages to use solely the snap, you can do:

sudo apt remove “chromium-*”

Requested Setups

That version of the snap is expected to work on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04, 17.10 and 18.04, and more generally on any linux distribution that supports snaps.

Specific Tests

I’m interested in your feedback using the snap for your normal browsing activities and workflows.

Please report any issues you encounter in this thread. Thanks!

lucyllewy · March 8, 2018, 10:29am

on 18.04 with nVidia binary drivers I get a black screen and the following message:

: chromium
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Created new window in existing browser session.
[20099:20248:0308/102733.559006:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(120)] Failed to launch GPU process.

oSoMoN · March 8, 2018, 1:08pm

Thanks for the feedback @lucyllewy. I’m trying to get my hands on nvidia hardware to reproduce and investigate the issue. Is there any chance you can test with an older version of the driver and/or on 16.04 or 17.10 ? I wonder if this is a general regression, or if it affects only 18.04.

jor1196 · March 8, 2018, 5:49pm

Can you play content that uses DRM?

oSoMoN · March 9, 2018, 6:35am

See that thread.

petevg · March 9, 2018, 8:23am

@oSoMoN The Chromium snap works with Nvidia drivers on my install of 17.10. I’m able to launch, sign in, and visit web pages. (Driver version 384.111, card is a MX150).

oSoMoN · March 9, 2018, 8:53am

Thanks @petevg, that’s very useful feedback. So it looks like that might be a 18.04-only issue.

oSoMoN · March 9, 2018, 8:57am

This might be related to that recent change in bionic.

oSoMoN · March 9, 2018, 1:13pm

I just published a new revision in the candidate channel that addresses two issues:

bug #1741078 - the chromium snap is now able to set itself as the default browser on the host system
moved the cache directory to under $SNAP_USER_COMMON/ so that cache data is not copied around with each upgrade

Please test and report issues here. Thanks!

casey · March 11, 2018, 2:55pm

Not sure if this theming issue is specific to the chromium snap, but GTK windows spawned from chromium (like the Save or Print dialogs) have black corners as shown in the attached image. Screenshot from 2018-03-11 07-42-33

Syntist · March 12, 2018, 4:46am

No HW Acceleration for me,
Using Gt640 (Nvidia Driver)
Arch Linux

oSoMoN · March 12, 2018, 8:56am

This appears to be specific to the chromium snap. Issue tracked by bug #1755119, thanks for pointing it out!

oSoMoN · March 12, 2018, 9:00am

Was this working on previous versions of the snap (e.g. the one currently in the stable channel, 64.0.3282.167)?

Which version of the NVIDIA proprietary driver? Does it work with an older version of the driver? Are other snaps able to use hardware acceleration?

Syntist · March 12, 2018, 2:43pm

Tried Stable Channel still isn’t working… I did report it before.

➜ ~ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 390.25 Wed Jan 24 20:02:43 PST 2018 GCC version: gcc version 7.3.0 (GCC)

➜ ~ snap version snap 2.31.1-2 snapd 2.31.1-2 series 16 arch
kernel 4.15.8-1-ARCH

oSoMoN · March 12, 2018, 5:57pm

Right, that was that post.

Would you mind filing a bug with all those details so we keep track of the issue separately from this call for testing? Given it’s not a regression in this new version, it shouldn’t block the promotion to the stable channel.

oSoMoN · March 13, 2018, 12:53pm

I just published a new revision to the candidate channel that fixes bug #1755463. This will require the password-manager-service plug to be manually connected for now, but I am going to request it to be auto-connected.

Syntist · March 17, 2018, 4:56pm

Sorry for late reply, what should i post there? how can i debug? i am new to bug report writing

oSoMoN · March 19, 2018, 10:23am

Details about your distro, desktop environment, version and channel of the snap (and whether previous versions were already affected or if it’s a regression), version and channel of the core snap too, the screenshot you posted also contain useful information (the output of chrome://gpu can be saved as an HTML page), and the version of the NVIDIA drivers you’re using. Basically the information you already shared on that thread! If more information is needed we can continue the conversation on the bug report. Thanks!

oSoMoN · March 26, 2018, 5:58am

chromium 65.0.3325.146 has been promoted to the stable channel. Thanks everyone for testing!

jonubulin · April 13, 2018, 12:20pm

I hope this is the right place to describe my problem, as the chromium snap I run does not match the version listed in the thread title.
I have a Problem with the Chromium Snap in Version 65.0.3325.181.

My Setup:
Fedora Atomic Workstation 27.112

Output of snap --version
snap 2.31.1-2.fc27
snapd 2.31.1-2.fc27
series 16
fedora 27
kernel 4.15.15-300.fc27.x86_64

Installation of the Chromium Snap works fine beside the usual SELinux Alerts.

Starting the Snap with snap run chromium works also fine, beside the following message:
“ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.”

Closing and starting the snap works now as intended.

However after I login with my google account and close the snap, I am unable to start the snap again.

Messages after I use 2FA:

LaunchProcess: failed to execvp: xdg-desktop-menu
[12970:12970:0413/135706.323588:ERROR:gaia_auth_fetcher.cc(71)] Missing ID token on refresh token fetch response.
[12970:12970:0413/135707.375360:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] “Uncaught ReferenceError: inline is not defined”, source: chrome://sync-confirmation/ (1)

The Authentication seems to work, as my bookmarks are synced.
When I now close chromium and try to start it again, it does not show any window.

I tried to reset chromium in case of an error with an extension or something else, but this does not help (only if I log out again).

The output of snap run chromium is the same as before.
The following processes are running, even so chromium is not showing up:

snap/chromium/274/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --no-default-browser-check --no-first-run
/snap/chromium/274/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --type=zygote (2 times)

/snap/chromium/274/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --type=gpu-process --field-trial-handle=6399375770318590026,17004892076805191968,131072 --gpu-preferences=KAAAAAAAAAAAAQAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAGAAAQAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAA --gpu-vendor-id=0x0000 --gpu-device-id=0x0000 --gpu-driver-vendor --gpu-driver-version --gpu-driver-date --service-request-channel-token=9064012BD4B587AACB9D815CF10915F5

/snap/chromium/274/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --type=-broker

I tried this for several times. The snaps works always fine, until I login with my google account.