chromium-browser: ERROR: not connected to the gnome-3-28-1804 content interface

Question

my launcher for chromium stopped working recently. i thought i'd try it at the command-line and I saw this:

👉  chromium-browser                     
ERROR: not connected to the gnome-3-28-1804 content interface.

(this is on groovy/20.10)

Solution 1

OK I found this solution on the snapcraft.io forum

snap connect chromium:gnome-3-28-1804 gnome-3-28-1804:gnome-3-28-1804 

doesn't output anything but after I ran it, chromium ran again happily.

I'd love to know why it got broken tho!

Solution 2

The chromium-browser package, as its doc says is...

"...a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed. chromium-browser is now replaced by the chromium snap."

I solved this issue by removing the snap

$ snap remove chormium

and reinstalling it:

$ snap install chromium

And chromium works again.

Comments

[Ate Siemensma]

I had the same problem, using this solution worked for me: askubuntu.com/questions/1178161/…

[Pranu Pranav]

I got this error : error: snap "gnome-3-28-1804" has no slot named "gnome-3-28-1804"

[SebMa]

@hwjp Your snap connect command gives me this error : error: cannot communicate with server: timeout exceeded while waiting for response