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I'm trying to launch the chromium-browser for my scraping project and I'm getting this error on my Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.8.0-1038-aws x86_64)

Chrome process stopped before startup completed. Additional info: /usr/bin/chromium-browser: 12: xdg-settings: not found cmd_run.go:1002: WARNING: cannot create user data directory: cannot create "/var/www/snap/chromium/1732": mkdir /var/www/snap: permission denied Sorry, home directories outside of /home are not currently supported. See https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/11209 for details.

It works on my local machine and when run the df command to see mount points I could see that it's also similar to my local environment.
click to see output of df command

Can someone help me with this? Thanks in advance

Devin Y
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  • The error says that your home-dir isn't in /home/usr/... but in /var/www/snap. Why is that ? /var/www/ should only be for web-server related stuff. – Soren A Sep 02 '21 at 08:43
  • You're behind on upgrades; as a fully upgraded focal system will report itself as 20.04.3 (https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2021/08/27/ubuntu-20-04-3-lts-released/ shows the ISO release date, but installed systems upgraded ~fortnight before that date) – guiverc Sep 02 '21 at 08:46
  • @SorenA my PHP project cloned inside that directory. – Devin Y Sep 02 '21 at 08:48
  • @guiverc Thanks. I just started developing on this server. Would it solve this issue after upgrade? – Devin Y Sep 02 '21 at 08:51
  • No; Chromium is a packaged as a confined snap, so has limited access outside of $HOME; yes you can add additional directories via snap connect (see an answer at https://askubuntu.com/questions/1184357/why-cant-chromium-suddenly-access-any-partition-except-for-home) but no exceptions exist for /var/ which is a system directory. That would require a classic confined snap – guiverc Sep 02 '21 at 08:54
  • @DevinY The error text say's :"Sorry, home directories outside of /home are not currently supported." ... and it is bad style to have development / projects in /var/www. Only copy / install necessary files there when deploying a new version of the project. – Soren A Sep 02 '21 at 08:56

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