Ubuntu – Google Chrome Won’t Open

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When I try to open Google Chrome from the launcher, nothing seems to happen. (this is a new phenomenon, it used to work). I'm on Ubuntu 13.04.

When I try to open via the terminal with either

google-chrome
google-chrome --incognito

I get,

FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(138)] The SUID sandbox helper binary
was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without
sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that
/opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best Answer

Fixed by Mike Strand.

Cause was the ownership and permission of the sandbox files.

In this order, type the following into the terminal (ctrl + alt + t):

sudo chown root:$USER /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox

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If you don't find the Singleton* files discussed in other answers, another source of this error is exhaustion of disk space.

Try df -h to see how much space you have left on your partitions; if any are full, free up some space and try again.

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You can try to re-install chrome like this for 64bit

sudo apt-get purge google-chrome

sudo apt-get install libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb

OR 32bit

sudo apt-get install libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb

This will also install a PPA to stay up to date.

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