[SOLVED] Xfce Debian and Chromium/Chrome

[GregE]

Thanks for the reply. I just un-installed Chromium and then re-installed Chromium 13.0.782.107-r942 with Synaptic. "google-chrome" or "google-chromium" from the command line returns - command not found. "chromium" from the command line returns errors:

[3969:3980:1467480739:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(158)] Creating shared memory in /dev/shm/.org.chromium.Chromium.ftTiqs failed: Too many levels of symbolic links
[3969:3980:1467480824:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(161)] Unable to access(W_OK|X_OK) /dev/shm: Too many levels of symbolic links
[3969:3980:1467480911:FATAL:shared_memory_posix.cc(163)] This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm' to fix.
Aborted

sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm ----- does not help

I do not have an /etc/environment file ------ removed last week

None of that means much to me. Try downloading the Chrome deb from Google and installing that. The Google version keeps everything in it's own folders in /opt. The Chromium from the repos is always going to be miles out of date. I am currently using version 15. It would appear your problems are not necessarily with Chrome but something more systematic.

[Swansen]

Thanks for the reply. I just un-installed Chromium and then re-installed Chromium 13.0.782.107-r942 with Synaptic. "google-chrome" or "google-chromium" from the command line returns - command not found. "chromium" from the command line returns errors:

[3969:3980:1467480739:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(158)] Creating shared memory in /dev/shm/.org.chromium.Chromium.ftTiqs failed: Too many levels of symbolic links
[3969:3980:1467480824:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(161)] Unable to access(W_OK|X_OK) /dev/shm: Too many levels of symbolic links
[3969:3980:1467480911:FATAL:shared_memory_posix.cc(163)] This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm' to fix.
Aborted

sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm ----- does not help

I do not have an /etc/environment file ------ removed last week

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 10#p410610
this worked for me with the same problem you were having. Installing chrome, not chromium for me, created even more problems and then i couldn't uninstall it... sssoo, pretty simple and effective solution given in that link.

[GregE]

Thanks for the reply. I just un-installed Chromium and then re-installed Chromium 13.0.782.107-r942 with Synaptic. "google-chrome" or "google-chromium" from the command line returns - command not found. "chromium" from the command line returns errors:

[3969:3980:1467480739:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(158)] Creating shared memory in /dev/shm/.org.chromium.Chromium.ftTiqs failed: Too many levels of symbolic links
[3969:3980:1467480824:ERROR:shared_memory_posix.cc(161)] Unable to access(W_OK|X_OK) /dev/shm: Too many levels of symbolic links
[3969:3980:1467480911:FATAL:shared_memory_posix.cc(163)] This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try 'sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm' to fix.
Aborted

sudo chmod 1777 /dev/shm ----- does not help

I do not have an /etc/environment file ------ removed last week

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 10#p410610
this worked for me with the same problem you were having. Installing chrome, not chromium for me, created even more problems and then i couldn't uninstall it... sssoo, pretty simple and effective solution given in that link.

Thanks for the link, but this problem is a different issue. Chromium in the Sid repos now works fine and is version 15.0.874.121. The issue with Xfce was that Chrome/Chromium would start and sometime work and sometimes stall - but only under Xfce. On Gnome or KDE it worked fine. It was always that there was something missing in Debian Xfce that Xubuntu had solved. Anyway all of this is in the past now (I hope).