Seems the following behavior started after dnf update to the 6.18 kernel and all subsequent minor revs.After initial startup or after reboot, Chromium-based browsers start and run fine. Second attempt results in following, only resolved with another reboot: user@localhost:~$ google-chrome-stable radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeonsi: error: can't create border_color_buffer radeonsi: error: Failed to create a context. Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU. [9095:9095:0125/123845.017117:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:1004] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=139 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeonsi: error: can't create border_color_buffer radeonsi: error: Failed to create a context. [9095:9095:0125/123846.859251:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:1004] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=139 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeon: Failed to allocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: alignment : 4096 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: va : 0x0000000100000000 radeon: Failed to deallocate virtual address for buffer: radeon: size : 65536 bytes radeon: va : 0x100000000 radeonsi: error: can't create border_color_buffer radeonsi: error: Failed to create a context. [9095:9095:0125/123848.665358:ERROR:content/browser/gpu/gpu_process_host.cc:1004] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=139 [9095:9095:0125/123848.665415:FATAL:content/browser/gpu/gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc:415] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye. [0125/123848.708552:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found [0125/123848.710446:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found [0125/123848.712883:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found [0125/123848.713955:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped) google-chrome-stable user@localhost:~$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake-H GT2 [HD Graphics 530] (rev 06) DeviceName: Onboard IGD Subsystem: Dell Device 06e0 Kernel driver in use: i915 -- 01:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO / Venus LE / Tropo PRO-L [Radeon HD 8830M / R7 250 / R7 M465X] (rev 87) Subsystem: Dell Device 06e0 Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu user@localhost:~$ sudo lshw -C display [sudo] password for user: *-display description: Display controller product: Cape Verde PRO / Venus LE / Tropo PRO-L [Radeon HD 8830M / R7 250 / R7 M465X] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: 87 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=radeon latency=0 resources: irq:140 memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:ec300000-ec33ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:ec340000-ec35ffff *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Skylake-H GT2 [HD Graphics 530] vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 06 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 resources: irq:141 memory:eb000000-ebffffff memory:80000000-8fffffff ioport:f000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff user@localhost:~$ uname -a Linux localhost 6.18.6-200.fc43.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Jan 18 18:57:00 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux user@localhost:~$ printf 'Desktop: %s\nSession: %s\n' "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" "$GDMSESSION" Desktop: X-Cinnamon Session: cinnamon What I've done based on Ms. Google's suggestions (all no-joy, same result): -Start in incognito mode -Move .config/google-chrome folder(s) and remove profiles -dnf remove google-chrome-stable and reinstall -Disable hardware acceleration in Chrome Mozilla browsers work as expected. Suggestions on what to do next? Seems it's a radeon driver thing to my untrained eye? Is this a kernel or driver bug that needs to be filed? Thanks - Glenn
I'm using KDE, and thinking Chrome wasn't already installed I ran "sudo dnf install chrome", which installed chromedriver. After installation I ran google-chrome-stable in a konsole session and even though I produced lots of error in the terminal window it still started up quite happily. I did this 3 times and got the same results every time on kernel 6.18.15. I've also just installed 6.18.6, but I haven't tested that yet.
regards,
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