On 2023-04-25, Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > Paul Colquhoun wrote: >> On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 4:32:59 A.M. AEST Alan Grimes wrote: >>> Still no clues as to why chromium can't display about:blank from an >>> empty user config folder without spewing hundreds of errors a second. >> How are you starting chromium? > > I always start it from the console with the command "chromium". I have > never used it any other way. > > >> Have you tried starting it from a command line to see if it prints any >> usefull >> error messages? > > Sample of the console output, hundreds of lines not shown from a > 3-second run. > > [16083:16083:0424/210253.832144:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service. > [16083:16083:0424/210253.858748:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service. > [16083:16083:0424/210253.885663:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service. > [16083:16083:0424/210253.911857:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service. > [16083:16083:0424/210253.938891:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service. > [16083:16083:0424/210253.965359:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service. > [16083:16083:0424/210253.992181:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service. > [16083:16083:0424/210254.019437:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service. > [16083:16083:0424/210254.046426:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(541)] > Network service crashed, restarting service.
Googling that error message produces several threads that suggest removing ~/.config/google-chrome to see if that helps. Or just create a new user and see if it fails similarly for that user. Others report similar problems cause by incompatible versions of the icu library or by particular behaviors of systemd-resolved. Does google-chrome have similar problems? -- Grant
