[CentOS] Chromium 85 does not load any pages

Wed Sep 23 13:59:41 UTC 2020
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On 09/23/2020 09:28 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 08:37:01 -0400
>>> From: H <agents at meddatainc.com>
>>>
>>>> On 09/23/2020 08:28 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>> I run chromium locally. Version 84 ran just fine...
>>>
>> 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
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In order to install the older version from koji, is there any way to force this downgrade from a locally downloaded package or do I need to first yum remove chromium 85?

Hoping for the first. I found rpm --replacepkgs but it cannot be used for a downgrade, not even when adding --force to the command.