Better Chromium Errors

[Dlay2017]

Confirmations

• I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
• I tried updating Pi Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi Apps?
• IMPORTANT: I promise to respond to comments on this issue and write a good bug report https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-write-good-bug-report/

What happened?

After installing the Better Chromium Update, Chromium doesnt start anymore

Description

After the update, chromium doesnt start anymore.

From console it drops the following error:
/usr/bin/chromium: 12: /etc/chromium.d/enable_sync: Syntax error: "fi" unexpected

after editing the file "enable_sync", removing the fi, another error follows:

dietpi@DietPi:~/Downloads$ chromium /usr/bin/chromium: 51: test: /etc/chromium.d/exte: unexpected operator expr: Syntaxfehler: unerwartetes Argument „sio“ /usr/bin/chromium: 51: .: cannot open /etc/chromium.d/exte: No such file
when uninstalling Better Chromium, chromium starts normal, but, no wonder, lacks the sync support.

What are your system specs (run the following command in your terminal)?

OS: DietPi v8.20 Bookworm based
RPi 4
8 GB
Version 114.0.5735.198 (Offizieller Build) built on Debian 12.0, running on Debian 12.1 (64-Bit)

(Recommended) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?

/usr/bin/chromium: 12: /etc/chromium.d/enable_sync: Syntax error: "fi" unexpected

dietpi@DietPi:~/Downloads$ chromium 
/usr/bin/chromium: 51: test: /etc/chromium.d/exte: unexpected operator
expr: Syntaxfehler: unerwartetes Argument „sio“
/usr/bin/chromium: 51: .: cannot open /etc/chromium.d/exte: No such file

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[theofficialgman]

@Dlay2017 I've removed the extra fi which was a syntax error. bb8d6ad

I don't see any way that we could cause this:

dietpi@DietPi:~/Downloads$ chromium  /usr/bin/chromium: 51: test: /etc/chromium.d/exte: unexpected operator expr: Syntaxfehler: unerwartetes Argument „sio“ /usr/bin/chromium: 51: .: cannot open /etc/chromium.d/exte: No such file 

[Botspot]

@Dlay2017, could you check for an update to Better Chromium from Pi-Apps and check if everything works now?

[mjc2251]

i have updated PI-Apps and can confirm the issues still persists.

[Botspot]

i have updated PI-Apps and can confirm the issues still persists.

I would like to see all the contents of all files in your /etc/chromium.d folder.
Please run this command to do that:

grep . -r /etc/chromium.d

Please copy the full output and paste it here.

[mjc2251]

/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:# A set of command line flags that we want to set by default.
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:# Do not hide any extensions in the about:extensions dialog
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --show-component-extension-options"
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:# Enable GPU rasterization.
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --enable-gpu-rasterization"
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:# Don't display any warnings about not being the default browser
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --no-default-browser-check"
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:# Disable pinging
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --disable-pings"
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:# Disable the builtin media router (bug #833477)
/etc/chromium.d/default-flags:export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --media-router=0"
/etc/chromium.d/README:Any files placed in this directory will be sourced prior to executing chromium.
/etc/chromium.d/apikeys:# API keys found in chromium source code https://chromium.googlesource.com/experimental/chromium/src/+/b08bf82b0df37d15a822b478e23ce633616ed959/google_apis/google_api_keys.cc
/etc/chromium.d/apikeys:export GOOGLE_API_KEY="AIzaSyCkfPOPZXDKNn8hhgu3JrA62wIgC93d44k"
/etc/chromium.d/apikeys:export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID="77185425430.apps.googleusercontent.com"
/etc/chromium.d/apikeys:export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET="OTJgUOQcT7lO7GsGZq2G4IlT"
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:#This script combines multiple invocations of --enable-features and --disable-features into one argument so that Chromium does not ignore any.
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:#Written by Botspot for the Pi-Apps Better Chromium script.
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:IFS=' '
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:enable=''
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:disable=''
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:new_flags=''
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:for word in $CHROMIUM_FLAGS ;do
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:  if [[ "$word" == '--enable-features='* ]];then
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:    enable+=",${word/--enable-features=/}"
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:  elif [[ "$word" == '--disable-features='* ]];then
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:    enable+=",${word/--disable-features=/}"
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:  else
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:    new_flags+=" $word"
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:  fi
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:done
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:#remove initial comma
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:enable="${enable/,/}"
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:disable="${disable/,/}"
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$new_flags"
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:[ ! -z "$enable" ] && CHROMIUM_FLAGS+=" --enable-features=$enable"
/etc/chromium.d/zzzz_combine_values:[ ! -z "$disable" ] && CHROMIUM_FLAGS+=" --disable-features=$disable"
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:#!/bin/bash
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:profiles="$(find "$HOME/.config/chromium/" -maxdepth 1 -type d '(' -name Default -o -name 'Profile *' ')' | sed 's+.*/++g')"
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:IFS=$'\n'
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:for profile in $profiles ;do
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:  [ ! -f "$HOME/.config/chromium/$profile/Preferences" ] && continue
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:  sed -i 's/"signin":{"allowed":false}/"signin":{"allowed":true,"allowed_on_next_startup":true}/g' "$HOME/.config/chromium/$profile/Preferences"
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:  sed -i 's/"signin":{"allowed":false,"allowed_on_next_startup":false}/"signin":{"allowed":true,"allowed_on_next_startup":true}/g' "$HOME/.config/chromium/$profile/Preferences"
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:  sed -i 's/"signin":{"AccountReconcilor":{"kDiceMigrationOnStartup2":true},"allowed":false,"allowed_on_next_startup":false}/"signin":{"AccountReconcilor":{"kDiceMigrationOnStartup2":true},"allowed":true,"allowed_on_next_startup":true}/g' "$HOME/.config/chromium/$profile/Preferences"
/etc/chromium.d/enable_sync:done
/etc/chromium.d/extensions:# remote extensions on by default
/etc/chromium.d/extensions:export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --enable-remote-extensions"
/etc/chromium.d/extensions:# load all of the extensions installed to /usr/share/chromium/extensions
/etc/chromium.d/extensions:export CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --load-extension=`ls -dm /usr/share/chromium/extensions/* 2>/dev/null | tr -d '\n'`"

[theofficialgman]

@mjc2251 can you please also copy the fully output of

cat /usr/bin/chromium

and put it here?

I don't run dietpi so don't know what your script looks like, but I imagine it has to do with a similar function to this

if test -d /etc/$APPNAME/customizations; then
	while read f; do
		. "$f"
	done < <(run-parts --list -- /etc/$APPNAME/customizations)
fi
test -f ~/.chromium-browser.init && . ~/.chromium-browser.init

encourtering a syntax error when trying to execute a script, causing cascading failures

[theofficialgman]

@Dlay2017 @mjc2251 we need the above output inorder to debug any further

[Botspot]

Closing this issue as stale.