[Discuss] chrome

[dan moylan]

Gregory Galperin <grg at csail.mit.edu> writes:
 
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 01:20:22PM -0500, dan moylan wrote:
> > [38556:38603:0124/131700.725633:ERROR:database.cc(1773)]
> > Thumbnail SQLite error: code 11 errno 0: database disk image
> > is malformed sql: SELECT id FROM favicons WHERE url=? AND
> > icon_type=?

> that (favicons) sounds like user data rather than system/application/install
> data.

> so you could try moving aside (/deleting) ~/.config/google-chrome/, which is
> my guess as to where said borked sql image lives.  that'll of course lose
> your local data so you'll have to at least log in to chrome again.  if you
> have your account set to "sync" everything to google (bookmarks, extensions,
> passwords, addresses, history, open tabs, etc) then it ought to recreate
> just about everything else ... if you don't normally sync you still may
> want to even temporarily enable some of those settings if you want to save
> these things across deletion of ~/.config/google-chrome/

> as a long shot if that doesn't work, check your syslog for any drive errors.
> unlikely.

not up to it, simpler just to move back to firefox.  thanks
for the input.

ole dan

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