Hi everyone, great to be using CachyOS! my pc locks up using vivaldi. even on reboot, launching vivaldi, sometimes it glitches a bit, but always locks up. tried to do a ctrl+t immediately when opened thinking it would stabilize, but no help.
was working fine until i started getting message at top of screen “software out of date.’ normally i use cli pacman-Syu, but kept receiving message. so i used the ‘software’ icon/app to update. after that update, vivaldi always crashes, when operating normal before the update.. no other issues noticed.
i have tried completely uninstalling with pacman -Rns vivaldi, and deleting all root and /home vivaldi files. there was a couple other updates that was listed with vivaldi, i updated, but don’t remember either. now vivaldi updated on my other (Win10) pc, so i reinstalled vivaldi, but same results. no other browsers installed except what comes with cachy and it works.
please help for diagnosis. Kernel: 6.16.7-1cachyos DE: Gnome 49.0 (Mutter) Wayland MOBO; Gigabyte X58A-UD3R CPU: intel i7 950 x64 8 gig ram
thank you for any help.
Start vivaldi from the terminal. What error messages do you see?
Have you installed the addons, passff-host and vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs ?
hey there! thank you for the response, so what i did look for is the vivaldi-ffmpeg in the ‘cachyos package installer.’ it was installed, but i noticed that vivaldi wasn’t installed.
checked the ‘software’ app and uninstalled vivaldi. installed vivaldi with the package installer, recheck, locks up. removed the vivaldi-ffmpeg (passff wasn’t installed, no addon) with the package installer. also, this time i started vivaldi in terminal. it ran a little, but was really glitchy. did manage some errors, but crashes. please direct me to vivaldi help if needed.
note: on another run vivaldi from terminal attempt, i did get similar errors, but a new one- fontconfig error: Cannot load default config fil: (null)
[2666:2666:1002/165133.145627:ERROR:components/search_engines/search_engines_managers_factory.cc:78] File can’t be read: /home/cachy/.config/vivaldi/search_engines.json
[2666:2666:1002/165133.149918:ERROR:components/search_engines/search_engines_managers_factory.cc:78] File can’t be read: /home/cachy/.config/vivaldi/search_engines_prompt.json
[2666:2713:1002/165134.334926:ERROR:chromium/net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1446] Unable to map Index file
[2666:2713:1002/165134.335025:ERROR:chromium/net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1446] Unable to map Index file
[2666:2713:1002/165134.335123:ERROR:chromium/net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1446] Unable to map Index file
[2666:2713:1002/165134.335557:ERROR:chromium/net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1446] Unable to map Index file
[2666:2713:1002/165134.335620:ERROR:chromium/net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1446] Unable to map Index file
[2666:2713:1002/165134.335674:ERROR:chromium/net/disk_cache/blockfile/backend_impl.cc:1446] Unable to map Index file
[2717:2723:1002/165134.567308:ERROR:chromium/net/disk_cache/simple/simple_version_upgrade.cc:114] Disk cache backend fake index file has wrong size.
[2717:2728:1002/165134.574096:ERROR:chromium/net/disk_cache/simple/simple_version_upgrade.cc:114] Disk cache backend fake index file has wrong size.
[2666:2695:1002/165141.912198:ERROR:chromium/google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2666:2695:1002/165207.876764:ERROR:chromium/google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
If you look at the error messages
Uninstall vivavldi. Remove the config as normal user. Note this will remove all user settings, bookmarks and plugins:
rm -rf ~/.config/vivaldi
Then install vivaldi again:
sudo pacman -S vivaldi vivaldi-ffmpeg-codecs
i uninstalled and removed the vivaldi config file. reinstall and received the same error. found none of those files in the vivaldi config, so i copied the config files (4 search_engines.json files) from another pc and rechecked. different errors, a few dozen like this:
[2783:2783:1003/114604.145707:ERROR:components/direct_match/direct_match_favicon_installer.cc:48] Failed to decode image /home/cachy/.config/vivaldi/Default/VivaldiDirectMatchIcons/471.ico
[7796:7796:1003/125826.745894:ERROR:components/direct_match/direct_match_favicon_installer.cc:48] Failed to decode image /home/cachy/.config/vivaldi/Default/VivaldiDirectMatchIcons/366.png
[7796:7796:1003/125826.745930:ERROR:components/direct_match/direct_match_favicon_installer.cc:48] Failed to decode image /home/cachy/.config/vivaldi/Default/VivaldiDirectMatchIcons/415.png
along with the -Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)
i looked and found a config file in the cache folder, but not sure what helps. ideas?
edit: tried again, received the same few dozen ‘failed to decode image’ error, but at the end, this was displayed:
[2515:2547:1003/140747.258367:ERROR:chromium/google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2515:2547:1003/140814.180708:ERROR:chromium/google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2515:2547:1003/140858.576124:ERROR:chromium/google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2515:2547:1003/141049.514181:ERROR:chromium/google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
[2515:2547:1003/141341.976978:ERROR:chromium/google_apis/gcm/engine/registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT
well, i chased a few of those errors down and after an update and delete of files, i installed brave and the glitching was the same. whatever it is, it’s far above me. i guess i’m gonna nuke and retry. keep an eye on the update. thanks for the help, i did learn some new stuff. thank you again.