4.1.2369.11-1 Crashes on Manjaro-ARM

LizzieA

I use Manjaro-ARM XFCE on a Raspberry Pi 400 and Vivaldi is my browser. After doing the update I went to use Vivaldi. It loaded but came up with the top banner that says Vivaldi with Vivaldi symbol on the left and the window controls on the right. The rest of the window for the browser was white with nothing in it. It didn’t even turn grey with the Vivaldi symbol in the middle. I couldn’t use Ctrl+Q to exit out of the browser and had to open Task Manager to force Vivaldi to shutdown. I tried to reinstalling and that didn’t change anything when I opened the browser. I also tried uninstalling it and then adding it back and still got a the same results as the other times I tried. FireFox is working just fine.

LizzieA

I opened the terminal and typed in vivaldi-stable and got the following errors

I also typed in vivaldi and got the following errors

I also read and made a comment on the following topic

Today's 4.1.2369.11-1 Crashes on Arch Linux
10 days ago • DoppleGanger

Hope this helps anyone having this problem.

hilumcool

Hi @lizziea

I've got the same setup as you. You have 3 options:

Wait for the current stable release package appearing in Manjaro ARM/aarch64 repo. With Vivaldi version 4.1.2369.16 the problems (appearing since an update of systemd together with Vivaldi >v4.0) are gone.

Download the new stable version with the install-vivaldi script of @Ruarí (get it here, https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/install-snapshots-on-non-deb-rpm-distros/). In the terminal/command prompt/shell:

sh install-vivaldi.sh -f -v 4.1.2369.16-1

In this case, you'll have to do all further updates manually.

If you don't like the first two possibilities and know, what you are doing, there's number

Edit your

/etc/nsswitch.conf

From

hosts: files mymachines myhostname resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns

to

hosts: files mymachines myhostname dns resolve [!UNAVAIL=return]

(as indicated, found at:
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/brave-browser-strange-behaviour/15903)

My observation: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/64416/vivaldi-4-1-rc-1-vivaldi-desktop-browser-snapshot-2369-10-11/25?_=1628430172364

Personally I don't recommend to change /etc/nsswitch.conf without a deeper knowledge.

hilumcool

@lizziea

It seems that the Vivaldi version in the official Manjaro repo has been updated, so you should be fine after having updated Vivaldi stable.

LizzieA

@hilumcool Issue still persists. I find no changes in Vivaldi the repo is still showing version 4.1.2369.11-1 and not 4.1.2369.16 . I will be downgrading back to version 4.0.2312.41 as that version is known to work according to arch FS#71662. I have been using that version until I saw your update and tried to get the new version but It does not appear in the repo

hilumcool

@lizziea

Strange... I just started Pamac and see

as I mentioned in my last post. Weird that you don't get the new version.

LizzieA

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LizzieA

@hilumcool @hilumcool This is what I see in Majaro-ARM XFCE

This is what I see on Manjaro-ARM KDE Plasma

On both XFCE and KDE Plasma I ran a refresh o both the databases and mirrors. Mirrors is set to worldwide. I do live in the US. I do have 2 Copies of XFCE and one is my daily driver and the other is my backup. Both copies of XFCE and my one copy of KDE Plasma were manually downgraded in the terminal to version 4.0.2312.41 and then ignored in /etc/pacman.confas shown in the Manjaro wiki . Before I took the screenshots I updated Vivaldi and commented out IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf

hilumcool

@lizziea

Some moments ago, an idea struck me - I hope that's the solution to your problem :

I'm on the Manjaro ARM testing branch, as I'm always testing new stuff... Sorry not to have mentioned it earlier.

I've followed the advice from Manjaro ARM team how to change the branch:

sudo pacman-mirrors -aS testing && sudo pacman -Syyu

(taken from https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-testing-update-2021-08-08-manjaro-arm-flasher-installer-megapixels-siglo-and-kernels/77433)

So also my backup-system (Manjaro-ARM KDE Plasma) has latest Vivaldi stable installed

Hope this helps.

LizzieA

@hilumcool Ah, now I see. I don't want to switch off of the stable branch and onto the testing branch and all I want to do is normal internet stuff and not any testing for Majaro or Vivaldi.

I do wonder when Manjaro will move the new update of Vivaldi (4.1.2369.16) to the stable branch. I did receive an update today but Vivaldi was not included.

hilumcool

@lizziea

Ok, so then beside waiting for the Manjaro-ARM-Team to release the new versions the other variants remain (I install my Vivaldi versions with the install-vivaldi script which works for the stable AND snapshot releases). But yes, it's manual work and somehow silly if you have Pamac with Vivaldi stable inside

IMHO the ARM testing branch is quite stable. Same as for Vivaldi snapshots. I use everything for my daily work. But the systemd problem is the only real showstopper I encountered for some time in these two systems.