Core24 based Chromium channels fail on Wayland

[Nathan Teodosio]

Chromium in the edge channel — currently 128.0.6585.0 (2907) — fails to launch on Wayland.

It crashes with

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xkbcommon: ERROR: failed to add default include path /usr/share/X11/xkb

(chrome:17555): Gdk-WARNING **: 08:01:13.432: Failed to read portal settings: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Settings” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
libpxbackend-1.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load module: /home/nteodosio/snap/chromium_edge/common/.cache/gio-modules/libgiolibproxy.so
xkbcommon: ERROR: failed to add default include path /usr/share/X11/xkb
[0717/080113.728030:ERROR:ptracer.cc(605)] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0717/080113.749512:ERROR:ptracer.cc(605)] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0717/080113.749930:ERROR:ptracer.cc(605)] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0717/080113.750128:ERROR:ptracer.cc(605)] ptrace: Input/output error (5)
[0717/080113.786142:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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The crash does not occur in Xorg or in XWayland (activatable with --ozone-platform-hint=x11).

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

This is caused by gnome-46-2404 and affects all channels on core24 (beta, edge): https://github.com/ubuntu/gnome-sdk/issues/232.

Workaround:

  snap revert gnome-46-2404
  #If this gives no such file or directory you didn't revert to a good gnome-46-2404
  ls -d /snap/gnome-46-2404/current/usr/share/X11/xkb/
  #Probably not the easiest route but that's what I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  snap remove chromium
  snap install --edge chromium

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Fix landed in gnome-46-2404 candidate channel, so currently the best way is:

  snap refresh --candidate gnome-46-2404
  #Probably not the easiest route but that's what I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  snap remove chromium
  snap install --edge chromium