[Solved] Google Chrome doesn't start with symlinked profile.

T.J.S. · 2012-10-02 08:06:30

I was trying to setup an encrypted directory where I'd put my user-data/profile from google chrome, and have the default directory (.config/google-chrome) symlink to it, much like the wiki describes it.

Well, I couldn't get it to work. I tried doing the same with firefox, and it worked without any issues, which makes it a google-chrome specific problem.
Any clues or suggestions, other than the easy "change your browser"?

Last edited by T.J.S. (2012-10-04 12:30:40)

seveg · 2012-10-02 08:37:01

How about provide more information? What does it mean 'I couldn't get it to work'? Do you get any error?

T.J.S. · 2012-10-02 08:42:49

No errors, plain "aborted" in console.

Are there any logs I could look at, which contain details about the issue? (i'm relatively new to linux)

seveg · 2012-10-02 10:05:36

How do you created that encrypted directory? Can you perform read/write operations on it?
Are you using chromium from official repository, some version from AUR or chrome?

T.J.S. · 2012-10-02 12:46:55

I use chrome from aur.

I used ecryptfs to create the dir. And yeah, I can perform read/write, I said I tried the same thing with firefox, plus I checked moving and reading other files too.

seveg · 2012-10-04 08:26:06

Ok, I'm quite bored at work today, so I've tested it.
I've instaled google-chrome aur package via packer and set up ecryptfs as described in wiki.

Then I've created symlink for google chrome config:

[gabriel@daisu ~]$ ls -l .config/google-chrome
lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabriel users 25 Oct  4 10:12 .config/google-chrome -> ../Private/google-chrome/

Everything works as expected. I got 'Aborted' only when ecryptfs ~/.Private is not mounted on ~/Private.

Are you sure you have it mounted?
Do you use this chrome package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37469 ?
Please double check if you have created symlink for chrome config corectly.

T.J.S. · 2012-10-04 12:25:24

Ok, somehow I was sure this would work the same as the one after that:

ln -s Private/google-chrome .config/google-chrome

ln -s ~/Private/google-chrome .config/google-chrome

since I was at ~.

I did the latter and now it's working. Thanks for your time to help me seveg.

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#1 2012-10-02 08:06:30

[Solved] Google Chrome doesn't start with symlinked profile.

#2 2012-10-02 08:37:01

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