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Chromium Profile Not Accessed - Ubuntu 13.04

Asked by Dave Leland

The following error appears when opening Chromium:

"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."

I have verfied the Google and Gmail passwords, disconnected and re-connected the Google Account. Profile shows at this point and Chromium syncs properly. On restart of Chromium, the same error ocurrs (about 6 or 8 error windows).

One observation: Normally when Ubuntu starts, the keyring doesn't appear. However, the first time I open Chromum, it appears. There used to be a way to check the keyring in system settings. I don't see it in this version. Is this by design, or perhaps not installed correctly? - Dave

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try renaming the chromium configuration folder which is hidden in your home folder then launch the browser. You can then log in with yoyr account again and resync your settings

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Dave Leland (dave-leland) said : 		#2

Sorry, I am unable to find the configuration folder. Perhaps that is the problem..

Home

davel@davel-HP-Pavilion-P6000-Series:/home$ ls -a
. .. davel

Home /davel

davel@davel-HP-Pavilion-P6000-Series:~$ ls -a
. Desktop .local .thunderbird
.. .dmrc .macromedia Videos
.adobe Documents .mozilla .Xauthority
.bash_history Downloads Music .Xauthority.BIHH2W
.bash_logout examples.desktop Pictures .Xauthority.LEF11W
.bashrc .gconf .pki .xsession-errors
.cache .gnupg .profile .xsession-errors.old
.compiz .hplip Public
.config .ICEauthority .ssh
.dbus .icons Templates

Root Directory

davel@davel-HP-Pavilion-P6000-Series:/$ ls -a
. cdrom initrd.img lib64 opt sbin tmp vmlinuz.old
.. dev initrd.img.old lost+found proc selinux usr
bin etc lib media root srv var
boot home lib32 mnt run sys vmlinuz

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Dave Leland (dave-leland) said : 		#3

Sorry again. I found it in .config. Renamed the folder as you suggested and it works. Problem solved.
Thanks,
Dave

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Dave Leland (dave-leland) said : 		#4

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.