How can i run Google-Chrome as user?

fir0n · 11-08-2012, 06:35 AM

when i try to run google.chome from the applications menu nothing happens.
when i try to run from terminal it shows:

Quote:

sh-4.2$ google-chrome
[6009:6009:19900757483:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(137)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Aborted

what can i do?

schneidz · 11-08-2012, 07:04 AM

please tell us what distribution, version and gui you are using (that mite be useful information).

also, please post the output of this command:

Code:

ls -l /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox

edit: try this:

Code:

chmod 4755 /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox 
chown root /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox 
ls -l /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox

fir0n · 11-08-2012, 01:47 PM

i'm using slackware 14 and xfce

Code:

bash-4.2# ls -l /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14056 Sep 25 08:47 /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox
bash-4.2#

even after chmod and chown the result is the same

schneidz · 11-08-2012, 01:56 PM

actually when i did chown after chmod it reset the permission bits for some reason.

try doing chmod again... the bits should look like:

Code:

[schneidz@hyper ~]$ ll  fir0n
-rwsr-xr-x. 1 root schneidz 0 Nov  8 14:52 fir0n

Geremia · 03-17-2013, 02:23 AM

I wasn't able to get it working by correcting the permissions; however, turning off sandboxing did enable Chrome to start:

Code:

google-chrome --no-sandbox

We use secure Linux; I can't imagine sandboxing is necessary anyways.

Geremia · 01-20-2014, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schneidz

actually when i did chown after chmod it reset the permission bits for some reason.

Me, too! I wonder why.
This fixed my problem, though. Thanks!