google-chrome fails, suddenly

[Cellmate]

I have a puzzling problem that I don't even begin to understand. The following: Sometimes after updating an (external) driver or any of the system components, the following happens (after a while, not necessarily immediately):

google-chrome suddenly has catastrophic rendering errors. It is then no longer usable at all, because things are missing or are hopelessly shifted. This is strange, it is the only GUI program that shows problems, no other, not even Wine, all the rest works normally, including KDE/Plasma and glxgears. Even stranger though is that google-chrome-beta is still working normally at the same time. Always.

I've tried downgrading all the ebuilds in question, but that has never worked. I assume this happens not due to the kernel, or at least booting with the old kernel does not lead to an improvement.

About the frequency: This has already happened about 7 times, at intervals of >6 weeks.

The phenomenon usually disappears after google-chrome has been updated. Re-installing the current version does not help. In the recent events google-chrome had not been updated from the portage tree in the days prior.

Since Firefox still works I could use that instead, but my company's website only works well with Google Chrome.

What am I doing wrong? Or what can I do to diagnose the problem? Could it be possible that Chrome is simply aged and this is then result of a kill switch? (Google offers a newer version than what is in the portage tree. 120.0.6099.199 vs 120.0.6099.129)

PS. Sry maybe it's the wrong forum when I think about it. Could somebody move this thread to a better suitable forum?

[myga]

Yesterday, I unexpectedly encountered a peculiar situation. Both Gentoo and Mint, two different Linux distributions, were impacted by an unusual bug. To investigate further, I conducted tests on three web browsers - Librewolf, Brave, and Dillo - and surprisingly, all of them exhibited the same problem. The only common factor between these two operating systems was the presence of an NVIDIA GPU. Consequently, I decided to switch to 'nouveau' drivers on my Mint machine, which successfully resolved the issue.

However, I did not take the same action for Gentoo. Interestingly, when I logged in later in the evening, the problem had mysteriously resolved itself without me performing any updates or altering any settings.

It is worth noting that the Windows operating system remained unaffected by this issue, which is indeed a cause for concern.

[mega_flow]

I got a week ago the same problems with google-chrome and spotify, on a intel gpu and wayland ( nvidia woks fine ) a track it down to vulkan update. delete .cache/spotify and .config/google-chrome fix it. but a cople days later google-chrome broke again
a fix that seems to hold for google-chrome is a setting in chrome://flags/ enable:vulkan and force wayland in Preferred Ozone platform
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[Ionen]

[Ionen]

NVIDIA aside, this reminds me of bug #921368, albeit the killswitch/conspiracy bit feels like a stretch. Something broken with shader cache or similar maybe with specific display drivers that trigger after a while maybe? Updates may invalidate the cache, just a rough guess anyway.

Not something I've observed when I use it myself anyway, even if outdated (not that I really browse with google-chrome, I just start it a bit now and then to check if it's not broken when I test nvidia-drivers updates in a passthrough VM -- and sometime I don't bother updating it in that VM).

[Joseph_sys]

I suspect, I might be the victim as well.
I posted here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1166880.html

But I suspect latest "Google-chrome-stable" does not work well with Intel processor with build in GPU.
I have: "12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400"

[CooSee]

[Joseph_sys]

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[Joseph_sys]

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[Joseph_sys]

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[Joseph_sys]

[CooSee]

is your user in input group ?

and what about the keyb & mouse settings in XFCE - have you tried some things ?



EDIT:

do you use a file, e.g

[Joseph_sys]

[mega_flow]

gnome got update in portage to 45 as stable on amd64 And use a new keyboard lib . is this the 1 to break chrome for u ?
this file got Unmerging... (gnome-base/libgnomekbd-3.28.1) on my system. but chrome still works normally me
Is flatpak google-chrome maybe a option
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[Joseph_sys]

[mv]

Try to go to "Settings -> Systems" and switch off "Use hardware acceleration when available". (Afterwards you need to restart google-chrome.)

[Joseph_sys]

[luna80]

I had problems with chrome, suddenly it start but there aren't visible open window, I solve the problem by starting it with this command

[Joseph_sys]