[CentOS] Chromium 85 does not load any pages

Wed Sep 23 14:04:14 UTC 2020
Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>

> 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.

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage chromium*.rpm