Neither Chromium nor Firefox browser run on my Jetson Orin Nano Super Development kit. The OS was freshly installed 3 times, Chromium has been deleted and re-install again. Firefox was installed but was having the same symptom. They were ran before and after Ubuntu was upgraded to 24.02 without help.
The symptom is: After the icon was clicked, the browser was starting up and the tab vanished after about 10 seconds.
I’m having the same issue. The only workaround I have is to install a web browser from flatpack which is similar to snap. After looking around forums, it seems SELinux is preventing the browser from opening even though Ubuntu uses App Armor and not SELinux. I tried to look further into removing or disabling SELinux, but non solves the issue. Gotta try to figure this out.
In the meantime you can follow this guide on installing flatpak: https://flatpak.org/setup/Ubuntu
Open a terminal and run the following commands.
After restarting you can now start installing a web browser i.e: flatpack install firefox
To make sure you are running the flatpak version of Firefox, run it via cli: flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox
Thanks for the wonderful advise. I am now able to run the flatpak version of firefox on my Orin Nano as a temporary workaround.
I am looking forward to having the permanent solution from wither Ubuntu or Nvidia.
Once again, thanks so much for the advice.
Keyed in the command as suggested (sudo snap revert snapd) and I got the following error:
error: cannot revert “snapd”: no revision to revert to
following the link provided, I tried the following commands:
sudo apr-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo snap revert snapd
sudo reboot
The same problem persist after reboot.
In the same boat (no revision to revert to), and no browsers are working. I am going to try the flatpak workaround.
I’ve been reading of people having the same issue after running the commad. Best bet is to keep on using flatpak version of web browsers. I’m doing the same.
Agree. That is what we do at the moment.
The problem is fixed after updating the latest snap today. I can run Firefox and Chromium now.
FIX BELOW
snap download snapd --revision=24724
sudo snap ack snapd_24724.assert
sudo snap install snapd_24724.snap
sudo sudo snap refresh --hold snapd
Hello,
This should have been posted in the Jetson forums. I have moved this topic for better visibility.
great fix
IT WORKS! THANKS
Great Fix, Thank You
On the one hand, chromium installed from apt/ flatpack did not seem to open pages unless started with arguments like that
chromium-browser --disable-gpu --no-sandbox --disable-software-rasterizer
On the other hand firefox installed from apt instead of snap did the trick as quick fix somewhat like that ; [ Generated with AI, but tested manually that worked with minor adjustment]
”—-start—of-generated–text——
If you’re experiencing issues running Firefox installed via Snap on Ubuntu — such as errors related to SELinux contexts or permissions — you can switch to the official apt package from the Mozilla Team PPA to fix it.
Here’s a step-by-step guide:
bash
sudo snap remove firefox || true
sudo apt purge firefox -y
bash
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mozillateam/ppa
Create a pinning file to prevent apt from reinstalling the Snap transitional package:
bash
sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozillafirefoxppa > /dev/null <<EOF
Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam
Pin-Priority: 501
Package: firefox*
Pin: release o=Ubuntu
Pin-Priority: -1
EOF
. Update package lists
bash
sudo apt update
Before installing, unhold the package if previously held:
bash
sudo apt-mark unhold firefox || true
sudo apt install firefox -y
sudo apt-mark hold firefox
Firefox installed this way will not be a Snap and should run without the SELinux and Snap-related errors.
—–end-of-generated-text”