Ubuntu 21.10 Chrome wont open

Question

After a fresh installation of Ubuntu 21.10 I cant get google chrome to start. When I double click it, nothing happens. When I run google-chrome as non root user I get this output-

chrome_crashpad_handler: --database is required
Try 'chrome_crashpad_handler --help' for more information.

using --database does not work either.

When I run google-chrome as root user I get this output-

[6196:6196:0418/092051.706344:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(90)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.

If I add --no-sandbox it opens the "Welcome to Google-Chrome" tab but its blank. Also I need it to work with non root permissions as I am planning to start chrome in kiosk mode.

I have tried:

Re installing Chrome, even through terminal
Deleting chrome configuration files
Re installing Ubuntu!

This has never happened to me, even on other Ubuntu installations on the same laptop model I am using. Any advice?

Having run google-chrome as root previously may exactly have been what is causing your issue. Never run graphical programs as root unless they are designed for that. Delete your google chrome profile: it will solve the issue — vanadium, Apr 18 '22 at 07:35
I have tried opening it the GUI way before trying do in terminal. I did delete my profile again but it does not change anything. — milner236, Apr 18 '22 at 08:22
Weird, I deleted the profile for the 4th time and only now it did work. Thanks anyways! — milner236, Apr 18 '22 at 08:57
I was pretty sure something went wrong deleting your profiles previous times. — vanadium, Apr 18 '22 at 09:11

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 01 '23 at 22:47

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In my case, deleting ~/.config/google-chrome worked.

Here's what you should type to delete you profile and make chrome works again (hopefully):

rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome

edited Oct 01 '23 at 22:47

stumblebee

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answered Jan 28 '23 at 18:12

SHANNAX

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '23 at 13:01

In my case the ~/.config/chromium was symlinked to the /dev/null for some unknown reason and I've got the this error:

$ chromium                                                                                                                             
chrome_crashpad_handler: --database is required                                                                                                                              
Try 'chrome_crashpad_handler --help' for more information.                                                                                                                   
[134448:134448:1020/095648.288463:ERROR:socket.cc(120)] recvmsg: The connection was terminated by the remote party (104)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core made)

Ubuntu 21.10 Chrome wont open

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