when i got home from i fired up Vivaldi and it won’t work. I don’t mean it won’t load the screen ia all scrambled.

I reboot. i closed and reopened. I try to uninstall and reinstall. nothing worked and I can’t get it to work. I can’t even get the folder to in my drive to go away so i can’t tell if i really did uninstall it. I can’t use the direction to install it via typing a command in the browser because it won’t render text.

is anyone else having this problem. os it with a Vivaldi update or is KDE messing it up?

  • crossfadedragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    did you try renaming the vivaldi folder in .config? maybe your profile is corrupted somehow?

    edit: you say you can’t get the folder to go away, you mean the profile folder? double check the permissions on the folder and subfolders/files.

    edit 2: im on kubuntu, just checked for updates and restarted vivaldi and see no problem.

    try running it again and then type in a terminal window:

    dmesg --level=err,warn

    and see what pops up.

    you might need to use sudo at start of command or type:

    sudo !!

    and hit enter.

    edit 3:

    try uninstalling vivaldi again and type in terminal:

    sudo rm -r /opt/vivaldi/

    try uninstalling with command:

    sudo purge vivaldi-stable -y

      • crossfadedragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        yeah package name should be

        vivaldi-stable

        i still think something might be corrupted with your vivaldi folder inside .config/

        if you purge i dont remember if youll lose the profile data/folder.

        make a backup of the vivaldi folder inside .config if it isnt too late, or just rename it.

        you might also try booting into the recovery console at boot and try checking the filesystem for errors for disk containing home.

        have you noticed anything else weird lately like corrupted downloads or files in general? ram and or ram slot going bad could be to blame. i had that happen once.

        in any case i highly recommend timeshift if you have spare storage space. it has saved me a couple times when packages got boogered up.

    • joel_feila@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      what i mean by can make it go away it no matter what i do to uninstall it i can see vilvaldi in the start menu and run the program. I have used the terminal and used every delete command i can find.

  • nowater@open-source.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    This is a known problem. A Chromium update is the culprit. You are most likely experiencing GPU acceleration issues. Starting up with the --disable-gpu flag should work. To fix it you need to delete the GPUCache and ShaderCache directories from your profile folder. Deleting the whole profile folder will fix it too, of course, but you will lose all your unsynced data.