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PSA: Recent Chrome/Chromium update breaks font cache, causing KDE Plasma to crash on login (retrolemmy.com)
submitted 1 month 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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[–] 1 point 1 month ago

Installing Firefox does not fix the Chrome/Chromium issue, because KDE would crash on login regardless. I already use Firefox as my main browser since version 1.5 or so (I know, I'm ancient and old). But recently had to install Chromium because Firefox does not support something I "need".

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