Hi all,
I had a problem starting Google Chrome on one of my servers today. It started with a whole bunch of errors, the most pronounced of which was as follows:
Failed to create a ProcessSingleton for your profile directory.
This means that running multiple instances would start multiple
browser processes rather than opening a new window in the
existing process. Aborting now to avoid profile corruption.
Try as I might, I couldn’t sort the problem. I tried deleting the config folder (/home/user/.config/google-chrome), and other standard random chances. The fix, however, was absurdly simple. I happened to use “df -h” during my research, and found that my / partition was completely full. I went into /tmp, found about 4Gb of useless cruft, and promptly deleted it. Problem sorted.
n00b
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brilliant, that was exactly my problem. Thank you for the useless error message, chrome.
Hi Damien,
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n00b
excellent ! solved my problem, thanks a ton 🙂
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Good post mate. Sure it helped me as well! had about 5g of unwanted crap in tmp folder as well. Cheers for the info.
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