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hbswn
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Jan 15, 2023

microsoft-edge-stable 109.0.1518.52-1 on Debian-11-minimal in Qubes?

Hello,

 

I have microsoft-edge-stable 109.0.1518.52-1 running on the standard Debian 11 qube in https://www.qubes-os.org/, but I prefer to run it in a https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/minimal/ with minimally required packages added.

After adding these:

 

 

gnome-keyring
gnome-keyring-pkcs11
policykit-1-gnome

 

 

it asked for the keyring password, like Edge on Debian 11.

Any idea what else could be required?

I get these errors if I start Edge on the bash shell:

 

 

libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[1101:1101:0114/164145.866776:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(188)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization

 

 

( https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/components/viz/service/main/viz_main_impl.cc  source code is in Google Chromium )

Access to the GPU it won't get in Qubes and Video Acceleration API (VA API) won't work either: see https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#users ( security!)

 

Edge on the Debian 11 qube reports:

 

 

[2734:2734:0115/204311.699138:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(188)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
. . .
[2771:2771:0115/204311.777994:ERROR:gpu_memory_buffer_support_x11.cc(49)] dri3 extension not supported.

 

 


not sure what's missing in the minimal qube.

Hans


2 Replies

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    hbswn
    Copper Contributor

    The fix was to set locales to C:

    export LC_ALL=C
  • hbswn's avatar
    hbswn
    Copper Contributor

    It creates .dmp files :

    '.config/microsoft-edge/Crash Reports/completed/6ff11c55-9aae-45a7-8351-5e8ecb26e05f.dmp'


    . . . but how can I read them in Linux ?!