Ubuntu – Google Chrome can not start under VNC (Ubuntu 18.04)

google-chromevnc

Nothing happen when I click icon of Chrome under VNC, tried both GNOME and XFCE. No error log in VNC. I am using TigerVNC, Here is my ~/.vnc/xstartup

#!/bin/sh
MODE="GNOME"
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1
unset SESSION_MANAGER
if [ -e "$HOME/.Xresources" ]
then
    xrdb "$HOME/.Xresources"
fi

if [ "GNOME" = "$MODE" ]
then
    if which gnome-session > /dev/null
    then
        gnome-session --session=ubuntu &
    else
        MODE=""
    fi
fi

If I enter google-chrome under terminal, I will get error:

[7027:7027:0622/011058.037849: ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(378)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.

I can open other programs like Firefox under VNC without issue.

Update 2018-06-24:

If I delete ~/.config/google-chrome, I can open Chrome under VNC, but it took about 60 seconds to show up…

Once I logged in my Google account and close Chrome, I can not re-open it again…

Best Answer

There appear to be two issues here.

  1. GPU acceleration. You can resolve this by running 

    google-chrome --disable-gpu

  2. gnome-keyring-daemon. This is a fairly common problem with a number of workarounds. The most acceptable to me is to execute this before launching chrome:

    gnome-keyring-daemon --replace --foreground --components=secrets,ssh,pcks11

However, you may find one of the other options more acceptable.

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