problems with Vivaldi after upgrading to Mint 20
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I have upgraded to Linix Mint 20 Ulnya and cannot run Vivaldi. Chrome runs fine but Vivaldi keeps crashing. how can I uninstall Vivaldi and re-install again?
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@muffybean
Hi, depends if you want to remove the profile, too.
Check: https://vitux.com/how-to-uninstall-programs-from-your-ubuntu-system/
If you re install with the package management the profile is untouched.
I would start with a temporary profile, start Vivaldi with:/usr/bin/vivaldi --user-data-dir="/tmp/VIV-TST" &
If it work without crashes your profile is broken or a extension break Vivaldi (rare).
If not you can try re install.
It is always useful to start Vivaldi from a terminal to get error messages.Cheers, mib
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I have Vivaldi installed on two other machines plus my mobile. On one PC it is LM20 Mint Ulnya that I did a clean install on, the other is on my Windows 10 machine and Vivaldi runs fine using my profile on them. Think really I made a mistake in not doing a clean install of LM20 Ulnya on what I call my media machine. What I did yesterday was to use the software sources advice and upgrade to LM20 via terminal. Is there a way of restoring my profile on the media machine? Or can Vivaldi be completely removed, with the faulty profile and then re-installed? TIA.
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@muffybean said in problems with Vivaldi after upgrading to linux 20:
Or can Vivaldi be completely removed, with the faulty profile and then re-installed?
Yes and if you run sync it is the fastest way, too.
If not you can copy:
Bookmarks Notes Favicons Top Sites History Shortcuts Last Session Last Tabs
back, if you like.
I would start with Bookmarks.
Passwords and extensions are lost.Cheers, mib
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How would you suggest uninstall Vivaldi and is there anything else I should do as well. I would prefer to do this all by terminal but I am not sure what command is should be. Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thank you for the help you have already given.
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@muffybean
Check my link in first post, uninstall with terminal is included.
You have to delete the vivaldi directory in /home/user/.config
there is the profile.Cheers, mib
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Many thanks for this. I successfully uninstalled via terminal purge command and then re-installed by terminal and everything ran fine, apart from Sync. This is a long standing problem on this machine. Whenever I first open Vivaldi,despite the fact that
i have my profile password remembered by the check mark, I have to enter my password again. I do not have to do this on my other LM20 machine or on my Win10 machine. Also, when I do enter my password manually, I have to do it twice before it takes. After that is fine until I have shutdown the machine and then open Vivaldi the next time I boot into Linux.I am attaching a capture to show the error. Any idea as what is happening here?
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@muffybean Looks like sync is rejecting your credentials on first try. Immediately re-submit them.
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Yes I have worked that one out. However, I still do not know why the password is not being saved in the first place when I have checked save Password. On my other two machines, one with LM20 Ulyana and the other with Windows 10 Pro it is not an issue. When I start Vivaldi on either of these machines my profile is always live, even on my mobile phone it is the same. So why am I having to keep on doing this?
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@muffybean I could not say.
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@Ayespy Same issue here. After having upgraded my opensuse tumbleweed, Vivaldi 3.2.1967.30 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision 4ad42549198061ab3114e2d432403afa264a9121 does not store passwords anymore. It accepts passwords, but does not store them. At all. So the (local) password wallet is currently defunct.
I could do with some help to debug. I think I have the old password file still in place, but I'm unsure about file names etc. And before moving things, it would be good to have first hand information. -
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