Re: Chromium installed, won't open

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 04:47:13PM +0000, tg30 wrote:
> On my Debian laptop
> dpkg -l chromium
> ii chromium 143.8.7499.48-1-deb13u1

There is a newer version with security fixes. Possibly unrelated to your
problem. Upgrading is anyhow useful of course.

  |  $ apt-cache policy chromium
  |  chromium:
  |    Installed: (none)
  |    Candidate: 143.0.7499.109-1~deb13u1
  |    Version table:
  |       143.0.7499.109-1~deb13u1 500
  |          500 http://poots:3142/security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security/main amd64 Packages
  |       142.0.7444.134-1~deb13u1 500
  |          500 http://poots:3142/deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages

> and chromium is listed in internet programs along with firefoxESR.
> firefox loads and runs, no problems.
> chromium doesn't load,

Sometimes starting the program from a terminal (like gnome-terminal) reveals
why the program doesn't start.

> just blue screen.

It is unclear to my why a blue screen is shown.

> 
> Oh my Mint pc the same result but google-chrome-canary also loads and runs.
> The google-chrome programs are not included as installation candidates on the Debian laptop.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Tom