After Linux Mint update, numerous problems ...

[Stephen Partington]

It appears chromium knows about this?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=340138

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 7:51 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> -------------------
> 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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