Power BI Desktop WebView2 crash

Hi Anonymous ,

Sorry, but we couldn’t provide any support outside this post. There are several existing ICM(292502976, 294087216) related to WebView2 crash, and product group is investigating on such issue. Will follow up them and sync here once there is update. In addition, please make sure you are using latest version of Power BI Desktop and try different versions of WebView2 at the same time. Thanks in advance!

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Community Support Team _ Caiyun

I got this error also.   Power BI desktop was just full screen, all black, with a message box saying "Power BI is experiencing a problem with WebView2. "

I experienced this issue while initiating a restart for windows updates. Windows was trying to restart, said that it was having problems closing some apps (of which Power BI Desktop was one), so I clicked Cancel so that I could manually close the apps. This is when Power BI appeared with a full black screen and gave the WebView2 error.

I am experiencing this issue.

Hello,

Would you all be willing to help out to understand what is going on here. We would need more logs to understand the root cause. Here are the logs we need to understand more : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/connect-data/desktop-error-launching-desktop#resolve-issues-related-to-webview2

You can share them out at  [email protected]  or if you are not sure how to go about gathering this information, reach out to [email protected] and we can get on a call work with you to get the issue sorted. 

Thanks

Rahul 

I am having this issue as well.

I think I struck a similar issue, but my symptom was a "Black Screen of Death" as Power BI was opening a second pbix file. Both my monitors went black, and there was no response to any keyboard or mouse input.  The only thing I could do was hard power-off.

I turned off that preview feature, and it hasn't re-occurred since.  There was no webview2 crash file recorded.

I trust the Power BI product team will eliminate all these issues before rolling this feature out of preview. As it stands it might cause reputational damage to the product.

Has this been resolved?

Over the last year almost every update has had bugs or Microsoft have updated a feature with an inferior change.  
I have been using Power BI for 5+ year and I'm about to switching to Tableau if this continues.

I just got this issue. It happened earlier few months ago, disappeared and is now back. 

I canceled applying the changes to queries because it seemed to take long time and then I got this error. After I reopened Desktop and continued working, everything seems to work ok - maybe it was something to do with the Cancel operation?

I have WebView2 version 101.0.1210.9 and Power BI Desktop 2.104.941.0.

When I double clicked a .pbix to open it, I got this error. When I opened it from within the app it was fine.