Re: chromium will not start

[Roger Heflin]

It means likely it crashed while it had the profile locked and the
program is too stupid to reclaim the lost lock.

That seems to be a really common bug in a lot of programs.  They test
the lock/unlock and make sure other separate copies won't use the
profile when another process is using it, but developers all think
their program won't crash so there is no way to lose a lock. and so
they forget to handle the program crashing with the profile being
locked and lose the lock.   And there are cases that lock reclaim can
fail on if the lock reclaim process suspects that the holder is not
the same host.
The hostname referenced is probably another name for your IP address
of your workstation.   try a dig <name> and or a ping name and see if
it comes back as your IP address

Best guess is do a find ~/ -iname "*lock*" -ls    and see if there is
a file that looks like a lock.

THese are the ones I find

24 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/SingletonLock -> mylaptop2023-laptop-1663681
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Feature\ Engagement\
Tracker/EventDB/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Feature\ Engagement\
Tracker/AvailabilityDB/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/coupon_db/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/PersistentOriginTrials/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Extension\ State/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/shared_proto_db/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/shared_proto_db/metadata/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Extension\ Scripts/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Session\ Storage/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/commerce_subscription_db/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Site\ Characteristics\ Database/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35
./.config/chromium/Default/optimization_guide_hint_cache_store/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Local\ Extension\
Settings/gphhapmejobijbbhgpjhcjognlahblep/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35
./.config/chromium/Default/optimization_guide_model_metadata_store/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/GCM\ Store/Encryption/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Download\ Service/EntryDB/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/AutofillStrikeDatabase/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/BudgetDatabase/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Sync\ Extension\
Settings/gphhapmejobijbbhgpjhcjognlahblep/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Extension\ Rules/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/parcel_tracking_db/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Segmentation\ Platform/SignalDB/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Segmentation\
Platform/SegmentInfoDB/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Segmentation\
Platform/SignalStorageConfigDB/LO
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Local\ Storage/leveldb/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/Sync\ Data/LevelDB/LOCK
  0 Nov 24 14:35 ./.config/chromium/Default/discounts_db/LOCK

And it may be that the first lock in my list has a name (on yours)
that confuses the lock reclaim.   Possibly the ip address does not
resolve to the same name both forward and reverse, and/or it resolves
to several different names/ips.

On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:21 PM Michael Hennebry
 wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> > Restart you computer and try again.  Let us know
> > <win><R> shutdown /r /f /t 00
>
> Did that.  Didn't help.
>
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