19

Possible Duplicate:
Hide 'Your profile could not be opened correctly'

Whenever I launch google-chrome, a window is displayed which contains this message:

Your profile could not be opened correctly.

Some features may be unavailable. Please check that the profile exists and you have permission to read and write its contents.

What is the source of this problem?

Community
  • 1
lovingubuntu10.04
  • 233
  • 4
    This is not a duplicate. The other article is about hiding the error message on a public Internet café machine; this one is about correcting the error. Please unmark it as a duplicate. – Peter Flynn Jan 02 '14 at 10:07

2 Answers2

32

This worked for me. Give it a try, this procedure includes a backup of your google-chrome profile folder, so that you can revert it if this seems not to work for you.

Pasted here for your convenience.

  1. If the browser is open, close it down.
  2. Open a terminal and run: mv ~/.config/google-chrome ~/.config/google-chrome-old
  3. Launch google-chrome, you will be asked to choose your search engine, your choice.
  4. Close coogle-chrome (yes, click the close button)
  5. After closing the browser you will have a new user profile at ~/.config/google-chrome
  6. Then let's copy your profile into the new place by running the next in the terminal. cp -r ~/.config/google-chrome-old/Default ~/.config/google-chrome/

I hope this help you.

Good luck!

Geppettvs D'Constanzo
  • 19,552
  • can i remove after all this google-chrome-old folder? – hingev Apr 30 '12 at 13:43
  • 1
    Yeah, sure you can. It was created just as a backup in case that you wish to restore the profile as mentioned in step 6. You can -indeed- to simply remove the original files without backing up, after which Google Chrome will create a new (empty) one. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Apr 30 '12 at 15:23
  • This is yet working in Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Apr 19 '13 at 00:24
  • hm. i am pretty sure it works in 13.04, why do you think it will not work ? – hingev Apr 19 '13 at 11:28
  • Oh well, I wasn't asking. Just informing that it works in 12.04 but thank you anyway. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Apr 19 '13 at 15:12
  • great solutions,work for me – Mr Lou Apr 25 '13 at 02:45
  • 13
    I got this same error, and found it was because there was a google-chrome process that was stuck in the background. I just did "killall -KILL chrome" in the terminal and that fixed it. – Ben Davis Jun 01 '13 at 15:57
  • Removing the google-chrome directory did not work for me — Chrome came up with the same error pop-up when restarted, and did not prompt for anything. I also found an old process and killed it, but that too made no difference at all: I still get the error message. This is Version 31.0.1650.63 Ubuntu 13.04 (31.0.1650.63-0ubuntu0.13.04.1~20131204.1) under Ubuntu 13.04 – Peter Flynn Jan 02 '14 at 10:12
  • 1
    Somehow the same process didn't work for of on 12.04 a couple of times until I rebooted the computer. I haven't tried this on 13.04 or newer and it seems to be a new kind of a bug on chrome. If you already tried rebooting please inform. Thank you! – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Jan 02 '14 at 13:55
  • @BenDavis worked for me, thanks. Make it an answer! For those who use chromium the command is killall -KILL chromium-browser – jutky Jul 09 '15 at 21:27
  • The killall command did it for me – Anyone Jul 25 '16 at 06:02
9

Probably it is a bad permission on the directory where the profile is stored. Your user should have rw permission and be the owner of it.

~/.config/google-chrome

is probably the directory so you may have to execute:

sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/.config/google-chrome
sudo chown -R your_user ~/.config/google-chrome

or simply remove the directory so Chrome will make a new one:

rm -r ~/.config/google-chrome
laurent
  • 6,779