Friday, December 02, 2022

Re: chromium showing a blank window

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 10:36 AM Claudio Jeker <cjeker@diehard.n-r-g.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 02:47:41PM +0100, David Coppa wrote:
> > Often, I'd say about half the attempts to start it, chromium shows me
> > a blank window and nothing else.
> >
> > Chromium version is 107.0.5304.121 (latest one), but the same thing
> > happened with previous versions as well (maybe less often?)
>
> Typical chrome issue. Kill the gpu-process for it to recover.
> Using `pkill -f --type=gpu-process` is normally enough. Also if you wait
> long enough chrome should do that automatically (since some time).

Thanks for this tip, Claudio!

I have been experiencing this same issue with Chromium under Intel
machines for years, but I've clearly never waited long enough for it
to self-recover. I have confirmed that killing the gpu-process works
for `chrome` and `iridium` under amd64/7.2-stable, though I'll note
that the command does need an additional delimiter to prevent an
"unknown option" error: `pkill -f -- --type=gpu-process`.

Morgan

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