[CentOS] Chromium 85 does not load any pages

Wed Sep 23 16:16:26 UTC 2020
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On 09/23/2020 10:04 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>> 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
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Simon, much obliged! I am now back and have a usable browser again!