[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#603148: chromium-browser: does not work with home directory on AFS

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Package: chromium-browser
Version: 6.0.472.63~r59945-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream fixed-upstream
Forwarded: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44606

Chromium fails to start if AFS is used for the home directory:

  $ LC_ALL=C chromium-browser
  [24629:24629:4653558837445:ERROR:chrome/browser/process_singleton_linux.cc(855)] Failed to bind() /afs/mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/home/ansgar/.config/chromium/SingletonSocket: Operation not permitted
  [24629:24629:4653558838197:ERROR:chrome/browser/browser_main.cc(979)] Failed to create a ProcessSingleton for your profile directory. This means that running multiple instances would start multiple browser processes rather than opening a new window in the existing process. Aborting now to avoid profile corruption.

This has already been fixed upstream in the 7.0.517.24 release [1], the
patch is available in [2].

According to the upstream bug, LTSP installations might also be
affected.

Regards,
Ansgar

[1] <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/638>
[2] <http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=44606>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii  chromium-browser-ins 6.0.472.63~r59945-2 page inspector for the chromium-br
ii  libasound2           1.0.23-2.1          shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.30.0-1            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.5-6             high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                2.11.2-7            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2            1.8.10-6            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcups2             1.4.4-3             Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.2.24-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.88-2              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2       1.4.13-stable-1     An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1            2.0.1-7             XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1       2.8.0-2.1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.4.2-1             FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1              1:4.4.5-6           GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4          2.28.1-5            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11          1.4.5-2             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [lib 7.7.1-4             A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglewmx1.5         1.5.4-1             The OpenGL Extension Wrangler - ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.24.2-1            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.20.1-2            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libicu44             4.4.1-6             International Components for Unico
ii  libjpeg62            6b1-1               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d          4.8.6-1             NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d           3.12.8-1            Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.28.3-1            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0           1.2.44-1            PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6           4.4.5-6             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libv8-2.2.24         2.2.24-6            V8 JavaScript Engine
ii  libvpx0              0.9.1-1             VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6             2:1.3.3-3           X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6             2:1.1.2-1           X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2              2.7.7.dfsg-4        GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.6-1           X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.26-6            XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.0-2           X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.2+cvs20100307-2 desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3    compression library - runtime

chromium-browser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
pn  chromium-browser-l10n         <none>     (no description available)

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