Google Chrome issue

terad · #1 14th June 2012, 08:36 PM

Hi,

I've recently upgraded my system from Fedora 16 to 17, but since that, Chrome does not work properly anymore. My history, settings and every other Chrome window ist blank and has no characters, just boxes, while most internet sites work without problems.
I already tried deinstalling it and removing the google-chrome folder in .config entierly, but it didn't change a thing.

Anyone got an idea?
Thanks in advance

secipolla · #2 15th June 2012, 12:34 AM

I think you'll have to start with a fresh config (not sure if it got corrupted but hope you have a backup).
It's a problem with gnome-keyring.
See http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...30&postcount=3

terad · #3 15th June 2012, 10:35 AM

Thanks for the answer. I just tried my old .config, but it seems it got corrupted before my backup...
So, the only way is to start a new one?

secipolla · #4 15th June 2012, 02:56 PM

I would start it afresh (rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome ~/.cache/google-chrome).
You can sign-up to a Google account with Chrome and then you'll have your settings saved there.
You can choose what to sync and what not to sync.
You can also, if you don't want to associate an existing account, create a new account only for that.

terad · #5 15th June 2012, 06:25 PM

Thanks, but I already tried all of these things.
I also tried removing the whole .config folder, which did work, but this is my least favorable option as Fedora looks and behaves like newly installed...

EDIT: I solved my problem and can now see my settings. I have to admit I just had to change the system fonts from a not-standard font back to standard, so it was just a font problem.
The keyring bug is still annoying...

secipolla · #6 15th June 2012, 07:30 PM

After you clear everything, then you need to start Chrome with
google-chrome --password-store=basic

You can try without clearing the config/cache before but it may be corrupted already.

Then you must tweak google-chrome.desktop to include "--password-store=basic" otherwise it might try to use gnome-keyring and corrupt things again.
This I explained in that thread.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1582659

terad · #7 17th June 2012, 11:08 AM

Ok, thanks.
I've already done that.
But it seems, Chrome doesn't like my system, or my system doesn't like Chrome anymore. I get the "Aw, snap" page when I'm trying to access twitter, when I tried to reply to this thread and when I wanted to install chrome extensions :-/

So it seems, I'm going to switch to Firefox, at least for the moment.

secipolla · #8 17th June 2012, 01:11 PM

That's fine, but you can start Chrome from the terminal and then when it crashes if it gives any errors you may find a solution on the net.

elias12 · #9 17th June 2012, 06:21 PM

there are also in the .cache-Folder Google-Chrome. You should delete both .config and .cache for clean start-up. If you not have a Google Account to synchronize your settings and bookmarks you should export them first.

terad · #10 18th June 2012, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elias12

there are also in the .cache-Folder Google-Chrome. You should delete both .config and .cache for clean start-up. If you not have a Google Account to synchronize your settings and bookmarks you should export them first.

Thanks, but I deleted both folders.

I also started chrome from my terminal, but whenever I get the "Aw, snap" message, there is no error in the terminal-console -.-