chrome quit, won't restart

[Steven Stern]

On 10/27/2011 03:30 PM, jackson byers wrote:
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.35.14-97.fc14.i686.PAE
> 
> 
> chrome suddenly quit; no response to clicks on icon
> 
> trying manually:
> 
> $ /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome &
> [2] 4311
> $ [4311:4311:95679337296:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(250)] Failed
> // snip //
> 
> [2]+  Exit 20                 /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
> 
> 
> I then rebooted, and chrome came up as usual.
> 
> advice?
> 
> Jack

sometimes, chrome doesn't go away when you close it, then it gets into
this state.

>From terminal, "ps -ef | grep chrome" to see if it's running and, if so,
"killall chrome" to kill it.


-- 
-- Steve