I had been running Google-chrome on my laptop for quite some time without problem. Around version 139 I started experiencing problems with failing to launch when launched from icon. When launched from commandline in terminal I would usually get a frozen system, but sometimes I get a white (empty) window, or a window with a garbled mess. I would like to get back to being able to use it properly.
What I have done:
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Updating system with sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade
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Reinstalling from my existing google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb file
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Downloading a more up to date google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb file and reinstalling
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Uninstalling with apt purge, then reinstalling
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Deleting ~/.config/google-chrome folder before reinstalling
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Rebuilding laptop (but still using the original users home directory, which is on a separate file system)
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Waiting for a later version (now on version 142)
Needless to say, none of this helps. When launching from a terminal I have been able to redirect the errors to a log file (when the system hasn’t frozen) which shows the following errors:
[3210:3277:1106/091126.134141:ERROR:net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1972] Invalid file magic
[3210:3277:1106/091132.726386:ERROR:net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1972] Invalid file magic
[3210:3277:1106/091132.727053:ERROR:net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1972] Invalid file magic
[3210:3277:1106/091132.881163:ERROR:net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1972] Invalid file magic
[3210:3277:1106/091134.010939:ERROR:net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1972] Invalid file magic
[3210:3277:1106/091134.067981:ERROR:net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1972] Invalid file magic
[3280:3284:1106/091134.430992:ERROR:net/disk_cache/simple/simple_version_upgrade.cc:114] Disk cache backend fake index file has wrong size.
[3210:3269:1106/091135.626947:ERROR:net/disk_cache/simple/simple_version_upgrade.cc:114] Disk cache backend fake index file has wrong size.
[3210:3269:1106/091135.627597:ERROR:net/disk_cache/simple/simple_backend_impl.cc:749] Simple Cache Backend: wrong file structure on disk: 10 path: /home/stuart/.config/google-chrome/Default/Service Worker/ScriptCache
[3210:3269:1106/091135.627873:ERROR:net/disk_cache/disk_cache.cc:236] Unable to create cache
[3210:3269:1106/091135.627958:ERROR:components/services/storage/service_worker/service_worker_storage.cc:1513] Failed to open the serviceworker diskcache: net::ERR_FAILED
[3210:3253:1106/091149.866828:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: PHONE_REGISTRATION_ERROR
[3210:3253:1106/091149.867917:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: PHONE_REGISTRATION_ERROR
[3210:3253:1106/091149.868596:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: PHONE_REGISTRATION_ERROR
[3210:3253:1106/091210.514563:ERROR:google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:292] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
Which really doesn’t mean much to me because I have previously deleted the ~/.config/google-chrome folder prior to installation. Can anybody shed some light please?
Regards, StuartM
