Thanks Brian (and everyone) ...

I did the apt dist-upgrade and got these error messages:

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.4.0-148-generic 
(x86_64)
Error! Module version 4.3.40_Ubuntu for vboxguest.ko
Error! Module version 4.3.40_Ubuntu for vboxsf.ko
Error! Module version 4.3.40_Ubuntu for vboxvideo.ko
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.4.0-148-generic 
(x86_64)

I captured and could post the entire process,
but noticed these errors as the process scrolled by.

And, after running all this, chrome still opens to
a blank or black screen but with the title bar showing
the page to which it opened.

Everything was working fine before I did the first
regular update/upgrade yesterday. Bummer.


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2009-02 Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> apt upgrade only does a partial upgrade on your system and if that's
> all you do, your system can get into a place where dependencies get
> out of wack and the system breaks.
> 
> instead do:
> apt full-upgrade
> or
> apt dist-upgrade
> They both do the exact same exact thing, except full upgrade is the
> new name for dist upgrade option becuase too many people only did
> upgrade because they were afraid that dist-upgrade would actually
> upgrade their distribution to the new version... it doesn't.  It just
> tells your system to upgrade all the packages, where plain old upgrade
> tells the system to only upgrade packages that don't require any
> additional packages to installed or uninstalled.... which can leave
> security problems on your system if the update requires additional
> packages to be installed.
> 
> If you've been doing only upgrade for a really long time; be prepared
> for some broken dependencies that wouldn't have happened if you had
> done dist-upgrades instead.... Hopefully apt's dependency calculator
> will just take care of it for you and all will be good with the world
> again.
> 
> Brian Cluff
> 
> On 9/2/20 3:04 PM, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Thanks to Matthew and Michael Butash for suggestions.
>> 
>> I did a new system update:
>> 
>> sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
>> 
>> And I have tried removing and reinstalling chrome,
>> but it still won't work.
>> 
>> Everything else seems to be working okay now.
>> 
>> Not sure how to do the "journalctl" thing.
>> 
>> Firefox works fine, but I still hope to get chrome working.
>> 
>> Any other suggestions?
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------
>> 2009-01 Michael Butash wrote (in part):
>>> I've had ibus break, which tends to break everything.
>>> 
>>> Would be worth using journalctl -f as root while launching
>>> to see what the system is complaining about >
>>> 
>>> Have you tried a clean user profile?  Ibus tends to be
>>> user dependent ... to test just to log in as another user
>> 
>> ----------------
>>> Aug 31, 2020 joe wrote:
>>>> After a Linux Mint update today, I seem to have numerous
>>>> problems that I did not have before the update.
>>>> 
>>>> ** Chrome browser won't open at all.
>> 
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