Frequently requested fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2883.3
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@Preorian said in Frequently requested fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2883.3:
Isn't there any crash logs or something?
See https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/troubleshoot/reporting-crashes-on-windows/
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@Preorian
Hi, Vivaldi create crash logs, depends on your system at different locations.
For Windows: https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/troubleshoot/reporting-crashes-on-windows/Cheers, mib
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So there's no crash logs that the user could investigate then? Only blindly send a lot of dump files to vivaldi? Disappointing.
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TL;DR; Bookmarks file was the culprit, for some reason it made vivaldi/chrome crash.
Googled & read a lot of bug reports and whatnot about analysing dumps.
Loaded dump (made in linux) in Windows with "WinDbg" but couldn't understand anything what was going on.
Started viv with
/usr/bin/vivaldi-snapshot --enable-logging --v=1
and saw these:[2669519:2669519:1218/035654.509913:ERROR:gpu_memory_buffer_support_x11.cc(44)] dri3 extension not supported. [2669479:2669479:1218/035655.298182:ERROR:sharing_service.cc(222)] Device registration failed with fatal error Segmentation fault (core dumped)
(The first 2 lines still appear after I found out that the Bookmarks was the culprit, so this output wasn't helpful at all, other than knowing about segfault)
And then read the created
chrome_debug.log
file in$HOME/.config/vivaldi-snapshot
folder and saw that the last line was always this:[2672382:2672438:1218/043637.164109:VERBOSE1:syncer.cc(155)] Committing from types Bookmarks, Preferences, Typed URLs, Search Engines, Sessions, Dictionary, Device Info, Priority Preferences, User Consents, Send Tab To Self, Security Events, Sharing Message, Encryption Keys
Which led to more googling and not finding anything similar to my problem, basically only about some sysadmins complaining years ago how remote profiles crashed chrome. But there was some mentions of bookmarks so I just tested to remove (moved to other folder) the bookmark files and voila, no crash. And vivaldi sync pulled my bookmarks back (and at first glance they seem to be ok, still need to compare to the old files).
I have no idea what happened and started the crashing. Too bad there's no good error logs.
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BTW. Has it been reported already that the:
[Panels] Increase default Panel width (VB-93713)
implemented in previous snapshot 2881.6 is buggy?
After every restart the default panel width is back.
If I have selected the bookmark panel and change the width (which also changes to all other panels that do not have the "separate width" selected) it works for current running session, but after viv is restart, the default (vivaldi forced) width is back. It didn't behave like this in the past.
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@Preorian
Hi, I hope this is working out for you now.
Vivaldi create crash logs, check:
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/troubleshoot/reporting-crashes-on-linux/The command find the log files, compress it and move it to /tmp, if you want to find the original .dmp files use:
find ~/.config/vivaldi/Crash\ Reports/pending -newer /opt/vivaldi/vivaldi-bin -name \*.dmp -printf %f\\n
Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Frequently requested fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2883.3:
The command find the log files, compress it and move it to /tmp, if you want to find the original .dmp files use:
Thx, I found that too, but I'm hesitant to send any files blindly to devs. And thankfully I won't have to now.
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@Preorian
Are there .dmp files?
Maybe the developer know why the bookmark file was broken from the crash log and this is a bug.
If you find anything useful you can open a new thread about, these posts get quickly lost in the snapshot threads.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Frequently requested fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2883.3:
Are there .dmp files?
Yes there are, like I said, I opened the newest one in WinDbg but couldn't understand anything. And like I said few times already, I don't want to blindly send anything to devs (I have to check everything myself what they contain before).
@mib2berlin said in Frequently requested fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2883.3:
EDIT: The panel width issue is also deserves a separate thread.
So it's not a known problem? I have seen that possible new bugs are confirmed as bugs or not from others and then bug report is sent, right here in these blog entry discussions. I just wanted to know whether this is a known/reported bug already (or it's not a bug.. for some odd reason, even though it worked differently before).
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@Preorian
Hm, this is the default width with a clean profile on Vivaldi stable:
And this is the default width in a clean snapshot profile:
If I change the width and set "Separate Width" it remember the settings after restart.
Iirc you have to disable "Separate Width", then resize, then set it again.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin said in Frequently requested fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2883.3:
If I change the width and set "Separate Width" it remember the settings after restart.
Iirc you have to disable "Separate Width", then resize, then set it again.Umm, that's not what I was writing about.
Before: If you changed the width of ANY panel withOUT the "Separate Width" setting, then all of those panels were the same new width, AND that width was remembered after restart.
Now: newest snapshots (after 2881.6): If you change ANY panel withOUT the "Separate Width" setting, then all of those panels are the same new width, BUT after restart the width of those panels is the Vivaldi forced new width.
EDIT: I only have few panels that I like to have wider (varying) width, and all the rest I'd like to have the same (default) width, without setting them all separately with the "Separate Width" setting. It used to work before, but not after the
[Panels] Increase default Panel width (VB-93713)
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@Preorian
AH, I can reproduce it, stable remember the custom setting without Separate width. A new feature cause a new bug, not rare.
Please report it to the bug tracker, I can confirm internally.For information on how to report a bug, see this URL: https://vvld.in/how-to-report-bugs
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Reported: (VB-93838) The new default Panel width is forced back after restart
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@Preorian
I confirmed the report in the bug tracker.Cheers, mib
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It's not a bug, it's just annoying, I haven't experienced it so far: before entering the forum and then for a few minutes afterwards, a window prompting you to log in with your google account pops up on EndeavorOS Linux. I don't know who else has experienced this besides me.
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@zoli62 said in Frequently requested fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2883.3:
a window prompting you to log in with your google account
This means you have an extension OR you have an email OR a panel which requires this login.
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@ruarí said:
@wetware05 Every fix comes with a potential to break something else (and frequently does). These is no sense in taking fixes like this straight to stable if one can avoid it.
Snapshots are for testing only. It is not an extra stream, even if many use it like that.
Okay. In my case I use the version or snapshop that seems more stable for how I use Vivaldi. If right now the "Stable version - 5.6 (2867.46)" has the error that the panels on the left are closed when downloading a file, I prefer the current snapshot. In other cases I use the latest snapshot if it does not have bugs like I use Vivaldi and if it has also added some improvement or a Chrome update. I think this behavior is quite general...among computer nerd people.
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@derDay said in Frequently requested fixes – Vivaldi Browser snapshot 2883.3:
@Preorian
rename your profile folder default to something else and start againIn my experience (twice in a couple of years, I think) this has been a registry issue (if you're in Windows)... version mismatch following a crash during install. The only way I could fix it was to restore an old version from a backup - which could then run - and update it again.
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@TbGbe Thanks, I also remembered that I use e-mail, but it didn't occur to me until now.
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@mib2berlin: The fix is included in this snapshot, which is why I listed it in the changelog