Apparmor stopping Google Chrome from launching in guest session
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lightdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
As mentioned in comment 5 of bug #1298021, it seems that Google have modified how they package Chrome in their repository.
Based on the fix for that bug, it appears that Chrome was packaged as /opt/google/
Adding the following additional line caused the browser to work in guest mode for me:
/opt/
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy lightdm
lightdm:
Installed: 1.10.1-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 1.10.1-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1.10.1-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1.
500 http://
Related branches
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
This bug was fixed in the package lightdm - 1.11.9-0ubuntu2
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lightdm (1.11.9-0ubuntu2) utopic; urgency=medium
* debian/ patches/ 06_apparmor- unix.patch: update for addr= rules patches/ 07_apparmor- chrome. patch: /[0-9]* /statm patches/ 08_apparmor- updates. patch: ig/unity. ini (continue workaround for /sys/vm/ overcommit_ memory
* debian/
- allow new path to Google Chrome (LP: #1361372)
- allow read of @{PROC}
* debian/
- allow 'rw' on /etc/compizconf
LP: 697678)
- allow read of @{PROC}
- allow write to /run/uuidd/request
-- Jamie Strandboge <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:18:12 -0500