Thought I'd have a go out of interest - Replacing my new config dir with the old one reproduces the bug, but -dbg seems to require a previous verison of chromium-browser (had the the same problem trying to install -dbg from synaptic):
=== $ echo "deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com $(lsb_release -cs) main restricted universe multiverse > deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com $(lsb_release -cs)-updates main restricted > universe multiverse > deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com $(lsb_release -cs)-proposed main restricted > universe multiverse" | \ > sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ddebs.list [sudo] password for user: deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com xenial main restricted universe multiverse deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com xenial-updates main restricted universe multiverse deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com xenial-proposed main restricted universe multiverse $ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 428D7C01 C8CAB6595FDFF622 Executing: /tmp/tmp.WR8LuQinDY/gpg.1.sh --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 428D7C01 C8CAB6595FDFF622 gpg: requesting key 428D7C01 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: requesting key 5FDFF622 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: key 428D7C01: public key "Ubuntu Debug Symbol Archive Automatic Signing Key <ubuntu-arch...@lists.ubuntu.com>" imported gpg: key 5FDFF622: public key "Ubuntu Debug Symbol Archive Automatic Signing Key (2016) <ubuntu-arch...@lists.ubuntu.com>" imported gpg: Total number processed: 2 gpg: imported: 2 (RSA: 1) $ sudo apt-get update ... ... $ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser-dbg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. chromium-browser-dbg : Depends: chromium-browser (= 51.0.2704.79-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1242) but 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.16.04.1289 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ==== In case it helps, the version I had installed previously (at least according to my update logs) was chromium-browser (58.0.3029.110-0ubuntu0.16.04.1281) Happy to help further if I can. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1702407 Title: Update breaks chromium-browser on Ubuntu Mate 16.04.2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1702407/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs