Google Chrome turned red after update

sleeping2620 · 2012-05-02 00:41:13

I installed Google Chrome 18 from AUR, and things were fine until very recently. I just updated my system (pacman -Syu), and after a reboot, Chrome's bar is now all red. I tried creating a new user with an empty profile, and even that new account has a red background, so it's not some sort of theme my user has. I also tried installing a different theme and the problem remains.

Does anybody else end up with a strange red Chrome after a system update? What do I need to do to get my standard background back?

headkase · 2012-05-02 00:44:15

Why did you even bother with "Chrome"? "Chromium" is in Arch's official repo's and it IS Chrome minus the Google branding. It is also automatically updated with pacman unlike an AUR package. Chromium is completely compatible with Chrome, extensions and all. You can also sync everything to Google just as you would with Chrome.

sudo pacman -S chromium

Last edited by headkase (2012-05-02 00:48:51)

sleeping2620 · 2012-05-02 00:48:06

headkase wrote:

Why did you even bother with "Chrome"? "Chomium" is in Arch's official repo's and it IS Chrome minus the Google branding. It is also automatically updated with pacman unlike an AUR package. Chromium is completely compatible with Chrome. You can sync everything to Google just as you would with Chrome.

Because it is not my decision and I have to support Chrome for professional reasons. The question remains.

headkase · 2012-05-02 00:51:53

I suppose you have your reasons. Anyway, I did a minor edit you might have missed. Chrome is made by Google, Chromium is also made by Google. Chrome gets some insignificant branding done to it and both are released in lock-step: when there is a Chromium release - first - then that release receives some minor branding and is released as Chrome to match the prior.

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sleeping2620 · 2012-05-02 00:57:19

I am aware of all that and use Chromium on other machines. This one has to have Chrome installed, and it seems only Chrome is affected by that weird redness.

headkase · 2012-05-02 01:05:03

Ok, there are two possibilities. You either have a Chrome theme installed which is the "redness." Or, you have a GTK2 theme installed which is "redness." Chrome is GTK2. If it is neither of those then I don't know what to suggest. What is your desktop environment/window maker?

sleeping2620 · 2012-05-02 01:17:37

I'm using KDE (which is now 4.8.2 since the update). I'm not all that familiar with GTK stuff, how do I proceed to adjust GTK2 themes?

headkase · 2012-05-02 01:26:05

I'm on Xfce4. For that, your themes are either in your home folder, under:

~/.themes

OR they are system wide:

/usr/share/themes

Within EACH of those folders, there is a "theme name" which is, tada, the name of the theme. Then within each of those "theme names" there are some various folders.

For the theme I'm using right now, inside are two folders that matter:

gtk-2.0

and

gtk-3.0

Those folders contain the GTK2 and GTK3 versions of the theme respectively. GTK2 is what matters for Chrome. What you want to do is, somehow - I don't know KDE at all, - find out WHICH theme you are using in KDE. Then go to its location and try this:

sudo mv gtk-2.0 gtk-2.0.bak

Which will just disable the GTK2 theme for testing. Log out and log back in, try Chrome again. If it is NOT red, and hopefully a really ugly theme, then the GTK2 theme is the issue.

When you are done, restore your theme's GTK2 folder:

sudo mv gtk-2.0.bak gtk-2.0

The log out and log back in to take effect.

adamrehard · 2012-05-02 01:33:07

I'd back up your Chrome config folder and delete the original. if that doesn't fix it, then it's (probably) not Chrome.

joseperezc · 2012-05-02 03:28:24

Hi if you are using gnome perhaps that is a key in dconf-editor in /org/gtk/demo
it's red the default color but you can change it to blue or green
However, chrome has a setting for use gtk theme, or the blue default theme

azhezhel · 2012-05-06 05:15:14

I've got this trouble too after update

Last edited by azhezhel (2012-05-06 05:23:00)

Und · 2012-05-07 15:19:02

Can you fix it if you go to Settings -> Personal Stuff -> Appearance in Chrome and play around with the settings?

lookup69 · 2012-05-11 09:20:52

Hi all,

my testing distribution is ubuntu-12.04-server-i386.iso.
I just customized the x window and encountered this problem.

please check the path with "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0".
maybe it just lose "loaders.cache" file. try to find the loaders.cache and copy to "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0"

wish this info can help your problem.

lookup69 · 2012-05-11 16:42:10

please check "/usr/share/mine/magic" and "/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache"
Those two files will influence the chrome behavior !!

Last edited by lookup69 (2012-05-11 16:50:00)

markz79 · 2012-05-12 04:01:32

Same issue. Icons aren't rendering either, and sometimes Chrome crashes. google-chrome-beta doesn't have this problem. Nothing above resolved this.

Last edited by markz79 (2012-05-12 04:09:25)

markz79 · 2012-05-12 04:38:12

This error must have something to do with it:

./google-chrome: /usr/lib/nx/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by ./google-chrome)
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: /usr/lib/nx/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /opt/google/chrome/chrome)

For some reason chrome is trying to use libpng from nxclient.

Yes, that's definitely the problem:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib google-chrome

fixes the redness and icon problem. I don't know the proper way to handle this, though.

Last edited by markz79 (2012-05-12 04:42:12)

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