Chromium flashes and crashes

Druonysus · December 21, 2010, 4:11pm

I am running openSUSE 11.2 with KDE4.5 on my eMachines e525. I just did a "zypper up" on my system and it reported that Chromium was going to be updated. I agreed and the when the update was finished I shut down Chromium and started it again. It flickered on the screen for a moment and crashed. I tried again but it produced the same thing. I logged off and back in and tried Chromium again... same thing. I restarted and tried... same again!!!

Does anyone know how I can fix this so I can use Chromium again? Thanks.

mark54g · December 22, 2010, 9:07am

Try launching it from the command line and seeing if there is any error output

Druonysus · December 22, 2010, 10:09am

the output is:

>chromium
Attempting to load libmoonloaderxpi
Segmentation fault

mark54g · December 22, 2010, 11:05am

You need to re-install moonlight or remove it entirely. Moonlight is the open source version of Microsoft's Silverlight, which is a Flash-like tool.

Druonysus · December 22, 2010, 11:11am

the problem is I dont know where it is at. it is not in /usr/lib/chromium/plugins. So I am not sure where else it would be.Might you know where else chromium would look for plugins?

mark54g · December 22, 2010, 5:08pm

you can use zypper to update it once you know the name of the package. Try this:

rpm -qa | egrep -i 'mono|moon'

and try to reinstall the packages associated with that.

Also, I would try this: (I thought better of myself)

updatedb
locate libmoonloaderxpi

then when you find out where that file is located do this:

rpm -qf <path to libmoonloaderxpi >

then you know what package to remove or update.

Druonysus · December 24, 2010, 2:59am

mark54g:

you can use zypper to update it once you know the name of the package. Try this:
rpm -qa | egrep -i 'mono|moon'
and try to reinstall the packages associated with that.

Also, I would try this: (I thought better of myself)
updatedb
locate libmoonloaderxpi 
then when you find out where that file is located do this:
rpm -qf <path to libmoonloaderxpi >
then you know what package to remove or update.

all the suggested commands produced no output with the exeption of "rpm -qa | egrep -i 'mono|moon'" but it only produced things relating to mono and nothing with moon in the output. I have been looking for a fix for this for several days and today I finally got a fix. I ran a zypper up and it updated chromium again. So, once zypper up was done I started chromium from the command-line and it works flawlessly.... I hope it stays this way. Thanks for the help with this.