Chromium fails to start

[Jim Muchow]

This morning, I was running chromium and I received the usual, well-known pop-up notification of having to do a snap refresh. Closed chromium, clicked on the pop-up. A few minutes later, I was informed that chromium was updated.

Clicked on chromium menu item and... nothing. No response. Tried from a terminal and received

xyz@optiplex:~$ env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/chromium_chromium.desktop /snap/bin/chromium %U
Content snap command-chain for /snap/chromium/2905/gnome-platform/command-chain/desktop-launch not found: ensure slot is connected
xyz@optiplex:~$ chromium
Content snap command-chain for /snap/chromium/2905/gnome-platform/command-chain/desktop-launch not found: ensure slot is connected

Using synaptic package manager, I checked that I was running the newest version (1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu2.22.04.1). Tried removing and then (re)installing chromium again. Same version.

Checked snap info command
xya@optiplex:~$ snap info chromium
name: chromium
summary: Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome
publisher: Canonical**
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/chromium
contact: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bugs?field.tag=snap
license: unset
description: |
  An open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more
  stable way for all Internet users to experience the web.
commands:
  - chromium.chromedriver
  - chromium
snap-id: XKEcBqPM06H1Z7zGOdG5fbICuf8NWK5R
tracking: latest/stable
refresh-date: today at 06:32 CDT
channels:
  latest/stable: 126.0.6478.126 2024-07-04 (2905) 174MB -
  latest/candidate: 126.0.6478.126 2024-07-03 (2905) 174MB -
  latest/beta: 127.0.6533.26 2024-06-28 (2904) 179MB -
  latest/edge: 128.0.6555.2 2024-06-26 (2898) 180MB -
installed: 126.0.6478.126 (2905) 174MB -

I've checked my version of snapd. It is 2.63+22.04 which is the latest stable version.

My Xubuntu version is
xxx@optiplex:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy

What do I do?

[Jim Muchow (jdavidm)]

Update: I usually turn off (power down) my computer at night. After turning on the computer this morning, I tried to start chromium and it worked.

All it took was a (cleansing) reboot?

Also I have to think that given the error I saw ("snap command-chain for /snap/.../desktop-launch not found") this is probably more a snapd issue than chromium(-package) issue. I'm going to check there.

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Hi Jim, thank you for the report and for coming back with extra information. I marked this as a duplicate of LP:2072395 even though the latter is newer just because more people found that one.