Ubuntu – Google Chrome Stable crashing at launch

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After a recent update in Ubuntu 16.04 chrome refused to launch with the following output to terminal:

~$ google-chrome-stable
[5525:5562:0327/115046.503718:ERROR:nss_util.cc(724)] After loading Root   Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
[5525:5550:0327/115046.527819:ERROR:in_progress_cache_impl.cc(93)] Could  not read download entries from file because there was a read failure.
--2018-03-27 11:50:46--  https://clients2.google.com/cr/report
Resolving clients2.google.com (clients2.google.com)... 216.58.213.110,  2a00:1450:4009:811::200e
Connecting to clients2.google.com   (clients2.google.com)|216.58.213.110|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘/dev/fd/4’

Crash dump id: 77bf82c7db6d1e8e

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Bus error (core dumped)

I tried purging chrome with sudo apt purge google-chrome-stable and reinstalling but it still wouldn't launch even after a reboot.

Best Answer

The only thing that worked was purging both google-chrome-stable and chromium-browser with sudo apt purge google-chrome-stable and sudo apt purge chromium-browser and then deleting any files and folders which point to chrome or chromium under ~./cache/ and ~./config/. eg. rm -r ~/.cache/google-chrome/ etc.

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