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PSA: Recent Chrome/Chromium update breaks font cache, causing KDE Plasma to crash on login (retrolemmy.com)
submitted 1 day ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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Chrome version 154.0.8037.57-1 updated its statically linked libfontconfig, and now its cache is stomping on the user-level font cache.

To fix this, press Ctrl + Alt + t to open a terminal, and run

rm -rf ~/.cache/fontconfig

And then reboot.

Note that opening Chrome (or a Chromium-based program) will break it again. I edited my ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome-beta.desktop to do this:

Exec=env XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/user/.cache/chromecache/ /usr/bin/google-chrome-beta %U

More info:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565052667

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/work_items/538

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[–] 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Alternative fix, install Firefox.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Honestly lately I've been very into zen. Firefox based, Firefox extensions. But the UI gets out of the way. Allowing you a traditional F11 workflow, without a lot of the drawbacks. Hell even as a small window on the screen its great. Your website full window.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Zen browser looks great but intimidating - feels like a lot of muscle memory to retrain.

    I have swapped Firefox to vertical tabs that stay minimized and that cuts back on visual cutter pretty dramatically

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    There's only two large differences from how you're currently using Firefox. The URL bar doesn't span the whole top of the window. But instead exist on the sidebar with the tabs. And the tabs can hide themselves automatically on the left to right side whichever side you have it moved to. Or you can have it always visible. I have mine set to autohide. And yeah the URL bar is the only thing that sometimes trips me up. When I want to check to see the URL I'm on or copy it I have to remember to go to that sidebar. But it really doesn't happen as often as I was worried it would.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I mean, something’s only work on Chromium based browsers. (Lookin at you Keychron software)

    I use Helium as my backup browser when I need a Chromium based browser, but considering this is a lib issue it probably isn’t exempt from this problem

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