F14 installed chromium, but it won't start

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 3 20:34:55 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 09:48 -0700, jackson byers wrote:
> ]$ uname -r
> 2.6.35.14-97.fc14.i686
> 
> 
> installing  chromium seemed to complete without errors:
> 
> [root at f14 ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
> [root at f14 yum.repos.d]# wget
> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-chromium-stable.repo
> 
> # yum install chromium
> ....
> 
> Installed:
>   chromium.i686 0:14.0.835.186-1.fc14
> 
> Dependency Installed:
>   libjingle.i686 0:0.6.0-2.fc14              libsrtp.i686
> 0:1.4.4-1.20101004cvs.fc14
>   nss-mdns.i686 0:0.10-8.fc12                v8.i686 0:3.4.14-2.fc14
> 
> Complete!
> [root at f14 yum.repos.d]#
> 
> 
> 
> but  chromium won't start
> 
> from ps  ax:
> 
>  3474 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
> --enable-plugins --enable-extensions --enable-user-scripts
> --enable-printing --enable-sync --auto-ssl-client-auth
>  3476 ?        S      0:00 /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
> --enable-plugins --enable-extensions --enable-user-scripts
> --enable-printing --enable-sync --auto-ssl-client-auth
>  3477 ?        Z      0:00 [chrome-sandbox] <defunct>
> 
> 
> advice?
> 
> Jack

If you mean Google Chrome I just installed it from the web and it
worked.
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