Public bug reported: When I attempt to "Clear browsing data" in chromium I see the following in a terminal.
[...] RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty RemoveFilesRecursively: unlink dir: Directory not empty [3640:3669:0206/181710:ERROR:plugin_data_remover_impl.cc(263)] ClearSiteData returned error I tried rm -rf ~/.config/chromium ; rm -rf ~/.cache/chromium but this made no difference. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: chromium-browser 32.0.1700.102-0ubuntu0.13.10.1~20140128.970.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25-generic 3.11.10 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Feb 6 22:28:34 2014 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = ubuntu XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ DetectedPlugins: (no entry found in the Preferences file) DiskUsage: b'Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 ext4 176G 51G 117G 31% /\nnone tmpfs 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup\nudev devtmpfs 3.8G 4.0K 3.8G 1% /dev\ntmpfs tmpfs 774M 1.1M 773M 1% /run\nnone tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock\nnone tmpfs 3.8G 80K 3.8G 1% /run/shm\nnone tmpfs 100M 56K 100M 1% /run/user\n' Inodes: b'Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 12M 607K 11M 6% /\nnone 967K 2 967K 1% /sys/fs/cgroup\nudev 957K 506 956K 1% /dev\ntmpfs 967K 507 967K 1% /run\nnone 967K 3 967K 1% /run/lock\nnone 967K 5 967K 1% /run/shm\nnone 967K 29 967K 1% /run/user\n' Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = :/opt/gurobi560/linux64/lib InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-01 (128 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: chromium-browser UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-02-06 (0 days ago) chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n' ** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1277271 Title: Chromium can't clear browsing data To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1277271/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs