chromium could not open profile correctly

[jaseemabid]

Binary package hint: chromium-browser

It gives the following output.

Your profile could not be opened correctly.

Some features may be unavailable. Please check that the profile exists and you have permission to read and write its contents.

i am unable to install extensions. theme could be installed but it is deactivated the next time open the browser and it again gives the same output.

Now even chrome has also got the same problem.

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

Just as an off-chace, you have not run chromium from terminal with 'sudo chromium-browser' ? I'm not familiar with profile problems in chromium, but that is one certain way to break Firefox.

[jaseemabid (jaseemabid)]

u want me to do that now ? ? sudo chromium ? ? or should i never do that ?

[Phill Whiteside (phillw)]

never do it ! (If you ever need to use sudo for a programme, always use gksudo (kdesudo for kubuntu) else it will royally mess up your profile). It appears from reading the link below, that it is a corruption in the profile that is causing your problem I'd suggest heading over there and trying what they say. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=27756 There is a work-around there that should get you up and running.

If you can try what is suggested there and post back here how you get on.

I'm not sure how to further action this bug, as the bug is known to the chromium team.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

Same just happened to me:
$ apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
  Installed: 10.0.648.133~r77742-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
  Candidate: 10.0.648.133~r77742-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.648.133~r77742-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6.0.472.63~r59945-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe i386 Packages

Renamed:
/home/<user>/.config/chromium/Default/"Web Data" to "x-Web Data-x" and restarted. Works.
I then attempted to look at in an sqlite browser/editor & it's obvious the the file is corrupted (I can easily read the new "Web Data" in the same editor.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

Sorry, forgot to add:
-rw-r--r-- 1 gg gg 55296 2011-03-24 14:23 Web Data
-rw-r--r-- 1 gg gg 55296 2011-03-24 10:57 x-Web Data-x

[avb (bntlnxsr)]

I read an easy fix for this, which worked for me.
In my case, the error was caused because of some chromium-related processes were stuck in the background.
So:

1. Launch: "System / Administration / System monitor"
2. Switch to "Processes" tab
3. Kill every process which has "chromium" in it's name
4. Start Chromium

Hope it works for you too.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

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