vivaldi not working in Ubuntu 22.04

Pedroski55

Hi! I always use Ubuntu 22.04. Lately, Vivaldi doesn't work, it just shows a fuzzy image, tabs and window parts are not displayed correctly, it is unusable.

To fix it temporarily, I can do

sudo apt remove vivaldi-stable

Then reinstall. However, I have done this several times and the problem keeps re-occurring.

There is an enormous amount of output if I call vivaldi in bash. I see

Errors:
link failed but did not provide an info log

a lot.

Waiting for an update to fix this. Any other tips please?

mib2berlin

@Pedroski55
Hi, this happen from an update of Ubuntu/Mint and others.
There is an article about this problem:

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/12/chromium-based-browsers-are-not-loading-pages-properly-on-linux-heres-how-to-fix-it/

Cheers, mib

Pedroski55

Thanks, that worked!

I found vivaldi in .config, then searched for GPU, which found 4 folders

I deleted the entire contents of all 4 folders.

After that, Vivaldi started normally.

Thanks again!

Let's hope an update cures this problem in future! I like Vivaldi!

DoctorG

Not a Vivaldi bug. Issue was causes by a broken Linux update of llvm package on Mint and Ubuntu. ⇒ https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/680961

stevenpemberton

I am having the same problem. Emptying the GPUCache directories (as suggested in the above link) didn't work for me (funnily enough vivaldy-snapshot does still work).

What does work until the underlying problem is fixed is running vivaldi from the shell with:

vivaldi --disable-gpu

npro

@stevenpemberton You may be missing some GPUCache folders, find and delete them all:

find ~/.config/vivaldi/ -depth -type d -name GPUCache -exec rm -rf {} \;

[ from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/llvm-toolchain-15/+bug/2026830/comments/7 (bug report link posted by @MrBlueSky ) ]

stevenpemberton

@npro I did that too, but it didn't seem to help...

DoctorG

@stevenpemberton A test; does this work in shell to start
vivaldi --use-gl=desktop

npro

@DoctorG I'm not sure that desktop is supported or functions as it used to anymore , (it's not mentioned in Beverloo's site for quite some time now), when I use it there's no hardware acceleration, I have an AMD GPU though.

stevenpemberton

OK, I tried again, deleting contents of all GPUCaches anew, and this time it did the trick, so maybe I missed one the first time around. Thanks all!

DoctorG

@ALL
Ubuntu and Chromium devs have to fix it.

️ Deletion of GPUCache is the only way to circumvent the Ubuntu bug.

rrob

@npro said in vivaldi not working in Ubuntu 22.04:

find ~/.config/vivaldi/ -depth -type d -name GPUCache -exec rm -rf {} \;

True true - deleting only ~/.config/vivaldi/Default/GPUCache/* is not enough, GPUCache is already on other places:

$ find -name GPUCache
./Default/Storage/ext/ahjaciijnoiaklcomgnblndopackapon/def/GPUCache
./Default/Storage/ext/ahjaciijnoiaklcomgnblndopackapon/8B7A51413F20/GPUCache
./Default/Storage/ext/mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/def/GPUCache
./Default/GPUCache
./System Profile/Storage/ext/mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/def/GPUCache
./System Profile/GPUCache
./ShaderCache/GPUCache
./Guest Profile/Storage/ext/mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/def/GPUCache
./Guest Profile/GPUCache
./GrShaderCache/GPUCache

So the above find command is really needed. Thank you, it works for me.