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Need some help with Chromium on Fedora

So I use Chromium for work. I installed it through Discovery and selected the "From Fedora Linux" option. It's worked fine for months. Then this morning, I closed out of it then opened it up later and it simply would not launch. It gives the little bouncy icon for a moment, then nothing. So I fiddle around with it, and downloaded the flatpak version, which worked, but I don't want it. Any idea how I can get it back up and running?

Running Plasma 6.1.5, Wayland. I already tried hopping into the Gnome desktop and that didn't work. Thanks in advance!

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  • Have you tried launching it from the terminal and seeing if it reports an error?

    • You just type in Chromium in terminal, correct? It just says command not found.

      • Yes all lowercase but that should work. It sounds almost like chromium got uninstalled or moved. Try uninstalling through discover and reinstalling, if that doesn't work go to your application menu and right click on the chromium launcher and select "edit application" then click the "Application" tab, the "Program" field should say where it's looking for the chromium binary, what does it say there? Also if you type "which chromium" into the terminal, what does it say?

      • it’s chromium-browser and not chromium, that would be why the command is not found

  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2316533

    Chromium browser does not launch because it is missing OpenCL

    Installing ocl-icd fixes this problem

    • How would it have suddenly not have OpenCL? I didn't even restart the computer. Either way, how would I install that?

      • went looking for reasons chromium wouldn’t start and there’s a bug dated today with that, not sure if that is the issue or what would have caused it

        running chromium-browser from the terminal would be what to try and see if there is an error, if it is the one above according to the bug report it’ll spit out /usr/bin/chromium-browser: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

        if it’s that, according to the bug report, dnf install ocl-icd should fix it

        if there’s a different error can update the post with what it says

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