Debian | V Fails to Start
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@owan0zyxel Downgrade breaks settings data in profile and causes unexpected and unknown issues, and if you have bad luck such can not be fixed by helpers.
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Downgrade officially not advised by Vivaldi team. -
Sadly, I did a test and downgrading to 6.7 does resolve my issue, and vivaldi starts.
What I wonder is if there's a mechanism for me to send the MDMP from 6.8 to devs so that they can see maybe what is causing the segfault on 6.8 and help resolve it on a new version
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@speakertomeat
Hi, if Vivaldi create a crash log file you can report it and add the latest file.
The logs should be in /.config/vivaldi/Crash Reports/https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/troubleshoot/reporting-crashes-on-linux/
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@mib2berlin
I have send crash report
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Meanwhile. In my case, I downgraded to Vivaldi 6.7.3329.41 and vivaldi started working again.... the with Vivaldi still open I upgraded back to 6.8.3381.48, and it starts perfectly and works.....
Edit: That is, with Vivaldi 6.7 running (in case it's important but I doubt it) I upgrade on my package manager to ñatest 6.8. The shutdown the running 6.7, and restart Vivaldi, and the newer 6.8 starts perfectly.
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@speakertomeat
Hi, strange but fine for now.
Did you try to reinstall Vivaldi at some point before? -
@mib2berlin said in Segfault:
@speakertomeat
Hi, strange but fine for now.
Did you try to reinstall Vivaldi at some point before?No, I admit I didn't.... but again, as long as it couldn't read my config directory, be it for lack of the key in the wallet, or me cleaning it, the old Vivaldi worked, so the binary wasn't outright corrupted.... though it could've been a corrupted library or app segment that didn't get triggered when there wasn't a specific config to enable it....
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@speakertomeat
I am sorry no idea but sometimes a install get's corrupted after an update. In this case it is nothing wrong in your profile and a simple remove Vivaldi and add it again fix issues.Cheers, mib
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Well, once again, reboot my pc, vivaldi 6.8 segfaults, even the just released newer 6.8.3381.50.
And now, there's no more 6.7 in vivaldi's repository. Thankfully I hadn't cleaned my apt cache and found my old .deb in /var/cache/apt/archives (you should have a vivaldi-stable-6.7...... there). Make a backup of that file somewhere, so each time vivaldi segfaults after a reboot or who knows what, install 6.7, start it, once it starts close it and install 6.8
Beware that some of your sessions (not all of them, for some odd reason) will be lost and you'll have to login. And vivaldi 6.7 dislikes the email data format from 6.8 so won't read it and as I am not currently using vivaldi mail I haven't checked if data is not lost, so beware.
And I hope someday Vivaldi finds and squashes this bug.
P.s. I don't want to check the mire of legalese about redistribution of Vivaldi so even if you ask via DM I'm sorry to say I won't send you my backed up copy of 6.7, I'm sorry.
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@owan0zyxel said in Segfault:
@mib2berlin
I have send crash report
many thanks for helpCould you please post the bug report number (VB-xxxxxx)? Thank you.
Vivaldi on:
Tumbleweed/Slowroll (Xfce 4.18)
Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide (Xfce 4.18)
AMD Athlon II X2 260, AMD RS780L, 8GB RAMAndroid (10)
Vivaldi Social: @epp
Vivaldi user since 2016. Thank you to all Vivaldi users. -
Hi, old builds are in the Archive.
The Vivaldi team don't recommend the downgrade of Vivaldi, this can cause unexpected errors in the future.Cheers, mib
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@owan0zyxel said in Segfault:
@mib2berlin
I have send crash report
many thanks for helpCould you please post the bug report number (VB-xxxxxx)? Thank you.
On my own side, I'm unable to report since the MDMP (Crash Log) files I try to upload are rejected by the report system for being too large (8.3 MB)
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@speakertomeat
Hi, the .dmp files are good to compress, a 500KB file compress to 40KB for example.
Then upload as .zip file.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Segfault:
@speakertomeat
Hi, the .dmp files are good to compress, a 500KB file compress to 40KB for example.
Then upload as .zip file.Cheers, mib
Thank you, I created VB-108434
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@edwardp
thank you
bug report number: VB-108327 -
VB-108327 and VB-108434 are reporting the same crash. VB-108434 has been marked as a duplicate of VB-108327.
Thank you @owan0zyxel and @speakertomeat for helping make Vivaldi better.
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This keeps happening to me.
No matter the version I update to. As separate as two weeks apart or as often as once a day, Vivaldi will refuse to start, segfaulting. And the only solution still is to install 6.7, open vivaldi, close, update to the latest and relogin on half my services.
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@speakertomeat
Hi, did you ever try a new user profile?
With downgrade Vivaldi you break it for sure.
If it happen the next time you can try to rename the folder Sessions in .config/vivaldi/default/
If Vivaldi start then the session files are corrupt and there is no way to repair them.
The bug report VB-108327 from @owan0zyxel is still unconfirmed. -
@speakertomeat said in Segfault:
This keeps happening to me.
No matter the version I update to. As separate as two weeks apart or as often as once a day, Vivaldi will refuse to start, segfaulting.
Something is going there completely wrong.
As said above, there's probably a big problem.
I would delete Vivaldi completely and reinstall it.
Debian and Vivaldi harmonize very well right from the start.
A real disposal.
