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Error process_singleton_posix.cc(353)] The profile appears to be in use by another Google Chrome process (182991) on another computer (fedora). Chrome has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chrome.

Debugging the error

Starting google Chrome from the command line to see the full error

[~] $ google-chrome
[5010:5010:0522/092516.066269:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(353)] The profile appears to be in use by another Google Chrome process (182991) on another computer (fedora). Chrome has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chrome.
[5010:5010:0522/092516.066336:ERROR:message_box_dialog.cc(146)] Unable to show a dialog outside the UI thread message loop: Google Chrome - The profile appears to be in use by another Google Chrome process (182991) on another computer (fedora). Chrome has locked the profile so that it doesn't get corrupted. If you are sure no other processes are using this profile, you can unlock the profile and relaunch Chrome.

Confiurming the process is not running

[~] $ ps -ef | grep 182991
laurence    5037    4517  0 09:25 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto 182991
[~] $ kill -9 182991
bash: kill: (182991) - No such processes
[~] $ ps -q 182991
    PID TTY          TIME CMD

Removing the lock file

Checking the lock files confirms that they are dead symlinks. Removing the lock files and restarting Chrome should fix the issue.


(laurence@carbon) Wed May 22 09:31:14
[~] $ ls -al ~/.config/google-chrome/Singleton*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 laurence laurence 19 May 21 14:51 /home/laurence/.config/google-chrome/SingletonCookie -> 9428542987787973970
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 laurence laurence 13 May 21 14:51 /home/laurence/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock -> fedora-182991
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 laurence laurence 46 May 21 14:51 /home/laurence/.config/google-chrome/SingletonSocket -> /tmp/.com.google.Chrome.8fTDRT/SingletonSocket

Removing the lock files

(laurence@carbon) Wed May 22 09:32:04
[~] $ rm -f ~/.config/google-chrome/Singleton*