[CentOS] Chromium 85 does not load any pages

Wed Sep 23 13:28:59 UTC 2020
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

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>> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 08:37:01 -0400
>> From: H <agents at meddatainc.com>
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>>> On 09/23/2020 08:28 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
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>>>> I just upgraded chromium on my CentOS 7 system and ended up with
>>>> nothing loading. I tried to downgrade using yum downgrade
>>>> chromium but there does not seem to be an older version on my
>>>> system, nor does EPEL seem to have version 84 which is what I ran
>>>> before.
>>>>
>>>> First, does anyone know why chromium 85 does not load /anything/?
>>>> Firefox runs fine.
>>>
>>> Do you run chromium locally or remote? I've seen the same behavior
>>> but we're running on remote desktops which means we have to 3D
>>> support. Once in the past this was a problem with chromium so I
>>> thought maybe it's the same now.
>>>
>>>> Second, why is chromium 84 not available in EPEL?
>>> EPEL doesn't provide old versions, they are removed when a new
>>> release comes in. You can get the older chromium here:
>>>
>>> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/chromium/84.0.4147.89
>>> /1.el7/x86_64/chromium-84.0.4147.89-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
>>> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/chromium/84.0.4147.89
>>> /1.el7/x86_64/chromium-common-84.0.4147.89-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
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>> I run chromium locally. Version 84 ran just fine...
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> It's hard to debug "does not load /anything/" without more specifics.

It's exactly what the OP said, chromium starts, presents its main window
and this one stays white whatever URL you try to load.

But I'm using Firefox so I don't really care too much.

Simon