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calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

[SOLVED] Chromium fails to launch

Hi,

When I run chromium it crashes with the following message:

[0814/003444:FATAL:chrome_main_delegate.cc(407)] Check failed: process_type.empty(). Unable to get the user data directory for process type: zygote
#0 0x563b0d71f24e <unknown>
#1 0x563b0d7377fe <unknown>
#2 0x563b0d249cd5 <unknown>
#3 0x563b0d6ed4fb <unknown>
#4 0x563b0d6eb7fd <unknown>
#5 0x563b0d248fca ChromeMain
#6 0x7f25dab4a291 __libc_start_main
#7 0x563b0d248e79 _start

Even if I delete ~/.config/chromium and reinstall I get the same message.

I found solutions for this problem suggesting $HOME must be not set correctly. However I've double checked and my $HOME is definitely right. Any hints? Weirdly, chromium did work initially when I first installed it, however after running it just once, it started failing like this.

I've tried installing google-chrome-stable, and it simply hangs forever when run, without showing any windows or displaying any error messages.

Last edited by calef13 (2016-08-22 19:16:45)

Jeroen)Mathon

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2013-08-29

Posts: 82

Re: [SOLVED] Chromium fails to launch

For troubleshooting purposes, could you include the version of chromium that you are running and also include a verbose/debug run?

calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

Re: [SOLVED] Chromium fails to launch

Thanks for the reponse. I did get chromium to boot by adding the --user-data-dir=/home/calef13/.config/chromium when launching chromium. However, I need to specify this everytime I start the program. Furthermore, chromium will not create this directory itself; I have to create it first, or elss Chromium starts but will not save any preferences.

I'm using version 52.0.2743.116

I don't see any way to run chromium in a verbose/debug mode. I couldn't find any flags for that. It's strange that chromium isn't saving the user-data-dir.

calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

Re: [SOLVED] Chromium fails to launch

Turned out I had my XDG_CONFIG_HOME set incorrectly in my ~/.zshrc as I had copied it from another machine of mine.