Chromium 150.0.7871.46 Will Not Load After Password Update

alexkemp · Yesterday 22:22:58

I am using FireFox to write this post, and that is because if I attempt to load Chromium it briefly appears and then immediately shuts itself down, with zero notice.

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                                   CPU: AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (4) @ 2.200GHz 
                                   GPU: AMD ATI Radeon R4/R5 Graphics 
                                   Memory: 1642MiB / 7362MiB

$ which chromium
/usr/bin/chromium
$ /usr/bin/chromium --version
Chromium 150.0.7871.46 built on Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
$ la /usr/bin/chromium
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5064 Jul  4 09:01 /usr/bin/chromium

After the recent Chromium update the first Chromium restart saw it ask me for a keyring password. I pressed 'Cancel' and it simply shutdown, no further action.
After much useless DDG searching I tried to follow some advice to remove the keyring at ~/.local/share/keyrings using rm -v ~/.local/share/keyrings/login.keyring.
The previous step on Chromium restart now saw a much fuller restart, with a Chromium 'New tab' and a "Restore pages" dialog + "Choose password for new keyring" dialog. The entire desktop was frozen with the sole exception of the Chromium dialogs.
Entering my system-user password, then confirming it + pressing the 'Continue' button then shutdown that entire window but released all other windows.

The keyring dir now looked like this (I do not recall the 'default' nor the 'Default_Keyring.keyring' entries being present before):

$ la ~/.local/share/keyrings
total 12
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alexk alexk  15 Jul  5 22:56 default
-rw------- 1 alexk alexk 428 Jul  5 22:56 Default_Keyring.keyring
-rw------- 1 alexk alexk 207 Sep 12  2016 user.keystore

Attempting to launch Chromium briefly shows a flash of Chromium in the panel but nothing else.

Curiously, my earlier efforts placed an extra entry into the keyrings, but not now:

$ la ~/.local/share/keyrings
total 16
-rw-rw-r-- 1 alexk alexk  15 Jul  5 14:54 default
-rw------- 1 alexk alexk 428 Jul  5 16:54 Default_Keyring.keyring
-rw------- 1 alexk alexk 328 Jul  5 16:54 login.keyring
-rw------- 1 alexk alexk 207 Sep 12  2016 user.keystore

I got some useful info + background from a Microsoft forum (sorry about that):

Chrome 150 Patch for CVE-2026-13933: Passwords Policy Fix After Renderer Compromise

I assume that I will have to wait for yet another Chromium update.

Ron · Today 00:35:24

I'm having problems as well with this version. I have 3 profiles in Chromium, and I can use profile 1, but profiles 2 and 3 just won't load. I can see the screen start to be drawn, but it disappears after a split-second. Not happy about this. (Trying out Floorp . . . seems okay.)

greenjeans · Today 02:47:40

Don't know what's up, but on the surface my first instinct says this smacks of gnome-keyring issues. Stuff like that is why I un-installed several gnome packages.

My solution: Ditch gnome-keyring. Save passwords in a separate encrypted app. Zero reason to trust gnome with my security in the first place. Srsly, don't trust gnome.

Last edited by greenjeans (Today 02:50:34)

Ron · Today 08:17:55

greenjeans wrote:

My solution: Ditch gnome-keyring.

In my case that's one of the first things I do after an OS install. So it must be something more than just gnome-keyring?

fsmithred · Today 12:24:46

Thanks for the warning. I downloaded the 149.x version before doing the upgrade. Chromium-150 appears for a fraction of a second and disappears. No keyrings here. I get a message when I try to start it from command line:

$ chromium
[0706/080813.360978:ERROR:third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/elf/elf_dynamic_array_reader.h:64] tag not found
Trace/breakpoint trap

If anyone knows what that means, I'd be interested to hear about it.

Meanwhile...

### Download these (or from your favorite debian mirror)
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/chromium/chromium_149.0.7827.196-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/chromium/chromium-common_149.0.7827.196-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/chromium/chromium-sandbox_149.0.7827.196-1~deb13u1_amd64.deb

### And force-install them
dpkg --force-downgrade -i chromium*.deb

It's been reported (multiple times) and there's a suggested patch.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1141488
I expect there will be a new version very soon.

rbit · Today 12:50:31

chromium 150 appears to be working okay on a new installation (that is, I did not previously have 149).
does 'chromium --temp-profile' work?

greenjeans · Today 15:00:58

Since my last post i've seen other mentions of similar issues on other forums. The same bug fsmithred linked to. Chromium usually updates anyway about once a week so it should be fixed pretty quick.

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Chromium 150.0.7871.46 Will Not Load After Password Update

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