Every once a while my Chromium snap will fail to load any page. Closing and reopening Chromium doesn't resolve the problem. A reboot (of the OS) always fixes it. What could be the issue?
I'm guessing it's something snap related but that's just a guess. Any idea how I could resolve such an issue without rebooting? I'm running stock Ubuntu 20.04 w/ Gnome.
The error messages presented is the typical 'Aw, Snap!" Error. Error code SIGTRAP
This is most likely the result of a known bug that happens when the Snap package is updated while Chromium is running. Closing and re-opening the Chromium snap does not always resolve the issue because there may be background processes owned by the application that are still running. Rebooting the machine will flush these processes out of memory.
If you would like to avoid the occasional mid-day reboot, you might find that the Edge or Firefox browsers are a bit better about updates despite their many other quirks
Close Chromium.
Then run:
kill $(ps aux | grep 'chromium' | awk '{print $2}')
Open chromium again.
