Ubuntu – How to remove Google Chrome error popup – “your preferences cannot be read…” on Ubuntu

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Since past few days, whenever I start Google Chrome, I have been getting this popup error message saying "your preferences cannot be read…" I haven't faced any issues in normal browser usage, but I am not able to remove this error.

My OS version is Ubuntu 13.10.
Chrome version is 36.0.1985.143.

Any pointer is appreciated.

Best Answer

I opened the folder .config/google-chrome to do as suggested in Tim's answer and happened to notice a file "Local State" whose group and owner was root and the file had a date stamp of the day since when the problem had started.

I changed the group and owner to self and the error got resolved.

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