Package: chromium Version: 21.0.1180.89~r154005-1 Severity: normal Already reported at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144802 but I feel this *might* be a Debian-specific issue, as chromium seems to be having difficulty with the local file system.
What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Create a new linux account, ie. adduser dummy 2. Open terminal, execute "sux dummy" 3. Start chromium in terminal: "chromium&" What is the expected result? chromium starts What happens instead? chromium does not start, and pukes this error instead: $ chromium& [1] 11026 dummy@x60s:/home/ckoen$ [11026:11026:6734994198:FATAL:chrome_browser_main.cc(1214)] Check failed: PathService::Get(chrome::DIR_USER_DATA, &user_data_dir_). Must be able to get user data directory! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages chromium depends on: ii chromium-inspector 20.0.1132.57~r145807-1 ii gconf-service 3.2.5-1+build1 ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2 ii libcups2 1.5.3-1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.0-1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.19-stable-3 ii libexpat1 2.1.0-1 ii libflac8 1.2.1-6 ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-2 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.5-1+build1 ii libgcrypt11 1.5.0-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1 ii libgnome-keyring0 3.4.1-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2 ii libjpeg8 8d-1 ii libnspr4 2:4.9.1-1 ii libnss3 2:3.13.5-1 ii libnss3-1d 2:3.13.5-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-1 ii libpulse0 2.0-6 ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-6 ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-2 ii libudev0 175-7 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.3-2 ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0-4 ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-5 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.7-1 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-13 ii libxss1 1:1.2.2-1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 chromium recommends no packages. Versions of packages chromium suggests: pn chromium-l10n <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org