[Solved]Chromium will not launch

Psithurisma · 2021-09-18 00:25:36

[name@hostname ~]$ chromium 
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: undefined symbol: hb_subset_input_set_retain_gids

A google search directs me to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269334, which says that this is caused by partial upgrades.
Running

sudo pacman -Syu
[name@hostname ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for name: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community-testing is up to date
 community               5.8 MiB  1446 KiB/s 00:04 [######################] 100%
 multilib-testing is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

does not resolve the issue.

Last edited by Psithurisma (2021-09-18 13:59:12)

jasonwryan · 2021-09-18 00:39:51

pacman -Qkk chromium

Also, hostname is not a valid hostname, and some applications will not work until you fix it.

Psithurisma · 2021-09-18 01:07:21

[name@hostname ~]$ pacman -Qkk chromium
chromium: 108 total files, 0 altered files

Also why is 'hostname' not a valid hostname?
Changing my hostname to 'host' did not change anything.

Last edited by Psithurisma (2021-09-18 01:09:27)

jasonwryan · 2021-09-18 01:26:19

What version of chromium are you running?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … e_hostname

Psithurisma · 2021-09-18 01:27:49

chromium 93.0.4577.82-1

seth · 2021-09-18 05:42:07

pacman -Qs harfbuzz

I assume "name@hostname" is some useless obfuscation?
Several generic/empty hostnames will get altered by the network (at least NM does that) and at this point you're losing the connection to the X11 server, so if it's *not* obfuscation, you want to change it regardless of the issue at hand.

foutrelis · 2021-09-18 06:28:31

Seems we missed an ABI break in libharfbuzz-subset. harfbuzz 3.0.0 has been moved from testing to staging for now; you'll have to downgrade to extra/harfbuzz (2.9.1) using something like `pacman -Syuu` once your mirror syncs.

Psithurisma · 2021-09-18 13:56:26

It seems that foutrelis figured out the issue. Running

sudo pacman -Syuu

downgraded 'harfbuzz', and now chromium launches.

agradzki · 2021-09-23 17:07:13

Building on what others have mentioned earlier, this was the fix:

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/h/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-2.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/h/harfbuzz-icu/harfbuzz-icu-2.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Noteworthy · 2021-09-24 01:44:01

Thanks a lot @agradzki ! confirmed that fixed the problem on my end. what a beautiful community.

arojas · 2021-09-24 07:06:41

agradzki wrote:

Building on what others have mentioned earlier, this was the fix:

sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/h/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-2.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/h/harfbuzz-icu/harfbuzz-icu-2.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Do NOT do this. This is guaranteed to break your system in the future. The fix at the time was already posted by foutrelis. The fix NOW is to fully update your system.

hamedsbt · 2021-09-24 10:01:25

Thanks a lot @agradzki ! confirmed that fixed the problem. The Linux world is wonderful world :\

seth · 2021-09-24 15:11:02

Chromium was rebuilt against harfbuzz 3.0:
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p … 5eb9b7203a

So please listen to arojas and don't downgrade harfbuzz but just upgrade your system.

chadp · 2021-09-30 20:12:16

Archlinuxarm appears to also have this same issue..
symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/chromium/chromium: undefined symbol: hb_subset_input_set_retain_gids

I encountered this error after pacman -Syu && pacman -S chromium

V1del · 2021-09-30 20:19:33

ALARM is a different distribution and you need to ask/check on the Archh ARM boards.

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