“The rollout will gradually release to devices over the next few days,” the update reads. On the 21st, it noted that a new version (.167) was being rolled out. After the update downloads, you will need to restart your device to complete the process. If your Chromebook finds an update, it will start to download automatically. By the next day, the company had identified the issue with the new build and had halted its rollout. Next, click the Hamburger menu, and then click on About Chrome OS at the bottom of the menu.
Google said that evening on its Customer Care Portal that a solution would be deployed by the end of the day on July 21st, and recommended that users powerwash their devices, roll back to previous Chrome OS builds, log in with Guest Mode, or wait for the fix. Google will start delivering major Chrome OS updates every four weeks with version 96 in the fourth quarter of 2021, specifically late November/early December. 02 of This week in Chrome OS: Chromes Material update Were back after a. “We recommend that you DO NOT update until further notice.” A number of users also began reporting bugs around that time - some complained that their devices wouldn’t accept their passwords, while others said they couldn’t even get past the boot-up screen. Removing ads from Chrome for Mac: If Google Chrome is also installed in your. “The latest stable update is stopping users from logging in,” one user wrote at 1:23PM ET. 147 as early as the afternoon of July 19th. The Chrome OS subreddit was aware of the bug in. Google has not yet responded to a request for comment. The mishap prevented Chrome OS from checking user passwords against stored keys, as Ars Technica notes, and that left some users unable to log in. Specifically, it seems that Google used one “&” in a conditional statement in its Cryptohome VaultKeyset, rather than two “&”, which is the “AND” operator in C++, breaking up the line.
As some eagle-eyed users, including one “ elitist_ferret” (first spotted by Android Police ), have pointed out, the problem appears to boil down to a missing ampersand in Google’s code. Reddit, in due course, has already spotted the issue. A major bug in a recent Chrome OS release (.147) left some users bricked out of their Chromebooks.