Public bug reported: removed previous version of webbrowser-app using apt-get purge
then installed latest version from overlay 0.23+16.04.20170310-0ubuntu1 Browser stopped launching on unity8 afer doing this and getting crash. Once I moved my .local/share/webbrowser-app directory out of the way it started working again Here is the stack trace: [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f50ea5d8740 (LWP 6212))] (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f50e9fff6dd in QQmlEngine::imageProvider(QString const&) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Qml.so.5 #1 0x00007f50ea2c12b2 in QQuickPixmap::load(QQmlEngine*, QUrl const&, QSize const&, QFlags<QQuickPixmap::Option>, AutoTransform) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Quick.so.5 #2 0x00007f50ea3c42d0 in QQuickImageBase::load() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Quick.so.5 #3 0x00007f50c519a07b in UCQQuickImageExtension::reloadSource() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libUbuntuToolkit.so.5 #4 0x00007f50c51cb005 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libUbuntuToolkit.so.5 #5 0x00007f50e8d88769 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 #6 0x00007f50e989bddc in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5 #7 0x00007f50e98a1316 in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Widgets.so.5 #8 0x00007f50e8d5b2f8 in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal2(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 #9 0x00007f50e8d5d1ba in QCoreApplicationPrivate::sendPostedEvents(QObject*, int, QThreadData*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 #10 0x00007f50e8db01d3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 #11 0x00007f50e70ec197 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #12 0x00007f50e70ec3f0 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #13 0x00007f50e70ec49c in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #14 0x00007f50e8db05df in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 #15 0x00007f50e8d5904a in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 #16 0x00007f50e8d6170c in QCoreApplication::exec() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5 #17 0x0000000000426b35 in main () (gdb) ** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1672821 Title: browser crashing after remove and reinstall To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+bug/1672821/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs