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bongo_950

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 5

Can only launch Chromium as root

I'm brand new to Arch and I've been messing around with linux for a couple years. So my issue is that the only way I can get Chromium browser to open is by running the chromium # command as root. As a normal user I run that command and I get the following error:

[:FATAL:chrome/browser/browser_main.cc(375)] Check failed: PathService::Get(chrome::DIR_USER_DATA, &user_data_dir). Must be able to get user data directory!
Trace/breakpoint trap

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sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Can only launch Chromium as root

Type as normal user and paste the o/p of:

ls -l ~/.config/chromium

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bongo_950

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 5

Re: Can only launch Chromium as root

ls: cannot access /home/bongo/.config/chromium: Permission denied

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Can only launch Chromium as root

ls: cannot access /home/bongo/.config/chromium: Permission denied

Read up on chown and chmod, you will need it.;)

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dcc24

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Registered: 2009-10-31

Posts: 732

Re: Can only launch Chromium as root

Basically, the chromium config directory belongs to root, not bongo (see output of "ls -al /home/bongo/.config"). Try executing

sudo chown bongo:bongo ~/.config/chromium -R

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