SELinux and google-chrome "Aw, Snap!" crashes

JB jb.1234abcd at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 15:42:26 UTC 2010


John Austin <ja <at> jaa.org.uk> writes:

> ... 
> I have interpreted chrome as google-chrome above
> 

The above is the proper way to call the browser.

$ which google-chrome
/usr/bin/google-chrome

The  /usr/bin/google-chrome is a bash script that sets up an environment, among
others libraries to be called, which prevents the errors received below.

> ...
> ####################################################################
> I have also carried out the above literally
> ie running chrome and NOT google-chrome - is that as intended?
> 
> It fails as follows
> 
> [root <at> milos ~]# semanage permissive -a chrome_sandbox_t
> --------------------------------
>  ja <at> milos 5$ /opt/google/chrome/chrome
> /opt/google/chrome/chrome: error while loading shared libraries:
libnss3.so.1d: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> ...

JB




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