[SOLVED] Google Chrome - Black Screens - F17

***bob*** · #1 8th August 2012, 11:13 AM

I seldom use Google Chrome, but there was a small glitch in Firefox, so I opened Chrome for the first time in maybe a month and my home page loaded as a black screen.

In fact, any site I went to simply comes up with pure black. If I open settings, all the page displays normally and there's no unusual settings that I can find. Right-click and 'view page source' or 'page info' also results in a black screen.

Firefox and Opera continue to display just fine.

I thought that it might just have been a glitched beta version, but there's a new update today and the darkness continues.

Package google-chrome-unstable.x86_64 0:22.0.1221.1-149058 will be updated
Package google-chrome-unstable.x86_64 0:22.0.1229.0-150285 will be an update (no joy with that one either)

So, since there's not a flurry of threads on this, I've got to assume that I've botched it all on my own and would appreciate anyone who can point out what's gone wrong.

BTW, removing and reinstalling results in the same blackness. And yeah, I've googled the issue and did see the April issues that apparently are now fixed by recent versions. (Wish I could read Russian for that one fix!)

***Dan*** · #2 8th August 2012, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob

... (Wish I could read Russian for that one fix!)

Toss the URL into here, and see what pops up.

http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT

PabloTwo · #3 8th August 2012, 02:09 PM

Have you thought about trying the stable version of google-chrome instead of the unstable version?

Code:

BASH:~/-> rpm -q google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable-21.0.1180.57-148591.x86_64

Code:

BASH:~/-> cat /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

***bob*** · #4 8th August 2012, 02:34 PM

(Bob sheepishly acknowledges the unstable nature of his Chrome and likely his brain functions)

Yep, if I dump the unstable and put in the stable, I'm doing just fine again. Thanks, PabloTwo and Dan. All's again well with Chrome. I'll mark this SOLVED and then ignore Chrome for at least another couple of months.