Can't Update Chromium - Reinstall Chromium Topic is solved

[kolaborek]

Hello,

I run DietPi on Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium in Kiosk mode. Everything works fine except that Chromium displays popup window with information that Chromium cannot be updated.
I thought that after todays update DietPi to latest version this information will dissapear, but it is not.

Does anyone have idea how to remove it?

Best Regards

[Joulinar]

Hi,

many thanks for your report. You could try to hide all error messages and pop-up during chromium start. For this you would need to edit chromium config file

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nano /var/lib/dietpi/dietpi-software/installed/chromium-autostart.sh

Basically you would need to change from Kiosk mode into App mode. There is an older discussion on GutHub for this https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issu ... -552434467

Basically you can adjust the 2 lines for CHROMIUM_OPTS as follow

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CHROMIUM_OPTS=" --test-type --window-size=$RES_X,$RES_Y --start-fullscreen --start-maximized --window-position=0,0 --noerrdialogs"
CHROMIUM_OPTS+=" --app=$URL"

As I don't have the update error message on my RPi3B+, I'm not able to check if it really get suppressed

On my system, I'm running following version of chromium

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root@DietPi3:~# dpkg -l chromium-browser
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name             Version            Architecture Description
+++-================-==================-============-===================================================
ii  chromium-browser 78.0.3904.108-rpt1 armhf        Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome

[emersonvier]

hi @kolaborek this works for you? I have the same issue here.

[Joulinar]

well you could try it yourself @emersonvier and report back if it's working

[emersonvier]

Did not work for me , I am still looking for a solution....

[kolaborek]

It does not work for me too.
Below is my all file /var/lib/dietpi/dietpi-software/installed/chromium-autostart.sh
Did I missed something... ?

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#!/bin/bash
# Autostart run script for Kiosk mode, based on @AYapejian https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/1737#issue-318697621
# - Please see /root/.chromium-browser.init (and /etc/chromium.d/custom_flags) for additional egl/gl init options

# Command line switches https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
# --test-type gets rid of some of the chromium warnings that you may or may not care about in kiosk on a LAN
# --pull-to-refresh=1
# --ash-host-window-bounds="400,300"

# Resolution to use for kiosk mode, should ideally match current system resolution
RES_X=$(sed -n '/^[[:blank:]]*SOFTWARE_CHROMIUM_RES_X=/{s/^[^=]*=//p;q}' /boot/dietpi.txt)
RES_Y=$(sed -n '/^[[:blank:]]*SOFTWARE_CHROMIUM_RES_Y=/{s/^[^=]*=//p;q}' /boot/dietpi.txt)

#CHROMIUM_OPTS="--kiosk --test-type --window-size=$RES_X,$RES_Y --start-fullscreen --start-maximized --window-position=0,0"
CHROMIUM_OPTS="--test-type --window-size=$RES_X,$RES_Y --start-fullscreen --start-maximized --window-position=0,0 --incognito --noerrdialogs --disable-features=TranslateUI"


# If you want tablet mode, uncomment the next line.
#CHROMIUM_OPTS+=' --force-tablet-mode --tablet-ui'

# Add URL for first run:
URL=$(sed -n '/^[[:blank:]]*SOFTWARE_CHROMIUM_AUTOSTART_URL=/{s/^[^=]*=//p;q}' /boot/dietpi.txt)
#CHROMIUM_OPTS+=" --homepage $URL"
CHROMIUM_OPTS+=" --app $URL"

# Find absolute filepath location of Chromium binary.
FP_CHROMIUM=$(command -v chromium)
if [[ ! $FP_CHROMIUM ]]; then

        # Assume RPi
        FP_CHROMIUM="$(command -v chromium-browser)"

fi

xinit $FP_CHROMIUM $CHROMIUM_OPTS

[Joulinar]

What version of Chromium you are running.

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dpkg -l chromium-browser

because I don't see such a message on my test installation

[kolaborek]

This is my version:

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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name             Version            Architecture Description
+++-================-==================-============-===================================================
ii  chromium-browser 78.0.3904.108-rpt1 armhf        Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome

[Joulinar]

strange. my version is the same and I don't have such a message. Was this message there all the time or just after a while?

[kolaborek]

It shows up after few hours of working Raspberry (~2h ?). Not after booting it up.
Because of that I started to observe this message after start using my SBC in production (now it is working 24/7), not in development process when RPI was restared quite often.