Falkon Crashes

shingi345 · 2024-12-24 03:23

Clean install of TDE, whenever I use Falkon it crashes basically right when I open the browser. I'm on a 32 bit laptop, but I have an SSD and yeah, Firefox even runs ok. But I need something lighter for a smoother experience. Ideas on the crashing? If not Falkon, any recommendations? Love Q4OS. Thanks for your help!

hchiper · 2024-12-24 12:10

If you didn't install Falkon from the Software Centre, uninstall it, reinstall it from there and see what happens.

q4osteam · 2024-12-24 12:58

We are not able to reproduce the issue. Falkon works as expected on our testing 32bit machine. Please run Falkon from terminal:
$ falkon
and post its output.

shingi345 · 2024-12-24 15:06

shingi345@q4os-desktop:~$ falkon
Falkon: 1 extensions loaded
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Yes, it is the version from the software center.

bin · 2024-12-25 07:55

Disable the extension and try again from terminal - what extension is this?

shingi345 · 2024-12-25 16:50

Falkon comes stock with Adblock. That’s all there is

hchiper · 2024-12-26 11:26

A segmentation fault is typical of an issue while trying to access memory. It can be caused by a bug in the program, which is not likely here. So maybe there is a problem with your RAM. I suggest you to make a memory test.
1. Install memtest86+:
`$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install memtest86+`
2. Reboot and wait for the GRUB menu, then choose the option to run memtest86:
it runs tests continuously, each run takes a long time (tens of minutes) and displays a big "PASS" if successful; let it make at least 3 runs.
3. Hit Esc to quit and reboot.

The output of `$ inxi -Fxxx` could give some useful info too.

Last edited by hchiper (2024-12-26 11:39)

shingi345 · 2024-12-27 18:09

3 passes, no errors

shingi345 · 2024-12-27 18:10

And disabling Adblock didn’t change anything. Still crashed.

hchiper · 2024-12-27 19:49

What is the output of `$ inxi -Fxxx`?

You could create a new user and use that new account to test Falkon again.

If it still crashes, boot from a live media, install Falkon and test again.

I also found an old post (2019) on a forum mentioning that installing nvidia driver solved the problem. You could try that in the live session if you have such a chip (inxi output).

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