Hello everyone,

My chromium browser just updated yesterday and I've noticed that at reboot or startup it will not load my homepage, or any other page. I then get the"he's dead, Jim" error message and that"weird little box-man". After that initial try and I close the browser and then reopen it and all seems well. I've checked the Debian site and googled the problem, but didn't find any mention of a bug or Wheezy issue with the new chromium.

Just wondering if anyone is experiencing this if they are using chromium.

My current chromium-browser is 11.0.696.71~r8602.

Take care,
Dave

"he's dead, Jim" error .... those are hard to come by so it might be worth a browser restart for a time or two maybe. On a serious note though I'm no help as I have not yet tried Chrome browser. Good luck though; sound like something in config or init somewhere. coj

This just might be a situation where I need to be patient and allow my pc actually complete the booting up process. I'm not sure right now.
I will have to test things out for awhile...

Will have to do it later though. Going for a hike with the family now. __{{emoticon}}__

Hmm. Definitely seems to be a small problem.

Had an epiphany and thought that I would try and open chromium-browser via the terminal and this is what I got.

Cuttlefish@antiX11dv5:~$ chromium-browser
GConf Error: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

Does this mean anything to anyone?

Trying this out


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Hopefully I'll be able to post back. __{{emoticon}}__

I dl the newest version of chrome and it opens the home page that I set and get no error's. Perhaps something is borked in your config. I'd save my bookmarks and delete and reinstall.

cheers,
ohh

oldhoghead wrote:I dl the newest version of chrome and it opens the home page that I set and get no error's. Perhaps something is borked in your config.

I can agree to this, however I would first change the name of the config folder before reinstalling. This can be done by:
open thunar
view --> show hidden files
open .config
right click on chromium and select rename ( eg: chromium.bk )
rerun chromium and see if you have the same problem

Thanks for the tips folks. I tried changing the name and was hopeful at first, but at reboot chromium did the same thing.
Just wondering...should I delete my original chromium file so I just have chromium.bk?
If I reinstall via synaptic do I just mark for reinstall or mark for removal and then reinstall?
Dave

In synaptic you would completely remove, but if you have a lot of bookmarks I'd save that before I uninstalled.

cheers,
ohh

oldhoghead wrote:if you have a lot of bookmarks I'd save that before I uninstalled.

yes you should always save your bookmarks before attempting any changes ( Exporting to html file through the bookmarks manager ). For my previous suggestion, yes after you rename the folder the original folder should be removed leaving only chromium.bk. This would force chromium to reload / rebuild the user config files making a new chromium folder. Again export your bookmarks first.

Thanks fellas. I must have renamed/removed the config folder and re-installed it all 2 or 3 times.
It seems to be working. I still don't really know what the problem was.

Thanks also for the bookmark advice.

Dave

I think I was a bit hasty in saying my chromium-browser problem was resolved. So I edited my post. When I fixed it"Just the way I like it" I started having the same start up issue.

I will continue to work at this. I like chromium, but in the mean time, I am trying Midori. So far so good. It does what I want it to do. __{{emoticon}}__

Dave

I just tried using chromium 12.0.742.91~r87961-1 and I seem to get the same exact thing as you. I can't even load the preferences in it lol. Chromium doesn't usually function properly for me, plus I'm not to fond of it in the first place. So, I've never bothered at trying to solve the problem with it. Anywho, you're not the only one.

Thanks buttcoffee for commiserating!

I'm thinking that it is a bug. I've been looking at this and don't really know what I'm looking at. __{{emoticon}}__

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I am also wondering if this has something to do with it.

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Dave