Cannot start Chromium

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I am trying to start Chromium 49.0.2623.108 on Ubuntu 15.10 installed on my ODROID-XU4. It used to work all the time but from one day to the next Chromium will not start. When I try to run it via terminal I get:

~$ chromium-browser
[3813:3840:0101/015306:ERROR:cert_verify_proc_nss.cc(925)] CERT_PKIXVerifyCert for www.google.com failed err=-8181
[3813:3840:0101/015306:ERROR:cert_verify_proc_nss.cc(925)] CERT_PKIXVerifyCert for translate.googleapis.com failed err=-8181
[3813:3839:0101/015306:ERROR:cert_verify_proc_nss.cc(925)] CERT_PKIXVerifyCert for clients2.google.com failed err=-8181
Segmentation fault
odroid@odroid:~$ libGL error: unable to load driver: exynos_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: exynos
[3866:3866:0101/015307:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(334)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process

Any idea what I can do?

I have already tried reinstalling Chromium. That did not solve the issue.

Thanks in advance!

Bumped for interest. I have the exact same problem on the exact same environment (software & hardware). By the way -- this question is probably more well-suited for SuperUser, rather than StackOverflow. — Priidu Neemre, Jun 15 '16 at 20:01

Priidu Neemre · Answer 1 · 2016-06-17T23:15:32.443

Ok, so it looks like rolling Chromium back to version 45.0.2454.101 works as a temporary solution (although it'd still be great if someone got the newest version to work). To do this, I had to go through the following steps:

Run sudo apt-get remove chromium-browser to remove the broken version of the package
Get the list of available package versions via sudo apt-cache showpkg chromium-browser (at the time of writing, there were two: 50.0.2661.102 (newest) and 45.0.2454.101)
Install the older version, like so: sudo apt-get install chromium-browser=45.0.2454.101-0ubuntu1.1201
(Optional) If you got a dependency error during the previous step, execute these two first: sudo apt-get remove chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra and sudo apt-get install chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra=45.0.2454.101-0ubuntu1.1201
Chromium should start up fine now

This worked for two of my Odroid XU4's running Ubuntu 15.10 and Chromium 50.0.2661.102 (before the downgrade).

EDIT: looks like this problem affects all ARM-based single board computers, rather than the Odroid XU4 in particular (although the reference to exynos_dri.so might make it look like an Odroid XU4 issue). See here for more information + other ways to rollback to an older version.

EDIT #2: There also seems to be a way to get the newest version to work, but I have not tried this out so I don't know whether it will actually work or not.

Cannot start Chromium

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