Google Chrome completely breaks after password export flag

[Miles]

Hello,

I was trying to export my passwords and turned on the flag for "Password import and export" under my Google account in Chrome. Immediately, the browser crashed. I have been unable to start Chrome since, unless I completely reinstall (so it does not have me logged in with that flag set).

I also installed Chromium (I am on Linux), and it worked until I logged in. After browser-wide login, that browser is unresponsive.

I started Chrome from terminal to see what is happening and here is the output:

[1411:1530:0320/203627.201803:ERROR:connection.cc(1947)] Passwords sqlite error 5, errno 0: database is locked, sql: PRAGMA auto_vacuum
[1411:1530:0320/203627.201842:ERROR:connection.cc(1947)] Passwords sqlite error 5, errno 0: database is locked, sql: PRAGMA journal_mode = TRUNCATE
[1411:1530:0320/203628.203391:ERROR:connection.cc(1947)] Passwords sqlite error 5, errno 0: database is locked, sql: PRAGMA cache_size=32
[1411:1530:0320/203628.203522:ERROR:connection.cc(1947)] Passwords sqlite error 5, errno 0: database is locked, sql: SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type=? AND name=? COLLATE NOCASE
[1411:1530:0320/203628.203620:ERROR:connection.cc(1947)] Passwords sqlite error 5, errno 0: database is locked, sql: SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type=? AND name=? COLLATE NOCASE
[1411:1530:0320/203628.203658:ERROR:connection.cc(1947)] Passwords sqlite error 5, errno 0: database is locked, sql: CREATE TABLE meta(key LONGVARCHAR NOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY, value LONGVARCHAR)
[1411:1530:0320/203628.203697:ERROR:login_database.cc(556)] Unable to create the meta table.
[1411:1530:0320/203628.203785:ERROR:password_store_default.cc(37)] Could not create/open login database.

I would like to turn this flag off so I can use Chrome with my Google account again. How can I turn the flag off without logging into a browser?

Thank you.
Best regards,
Miles

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[PhistucK]

:S that is too bad...

I guess you should create an issue at crbug.com.

It looks like that feature corrupted the backend data of Chrome Sync and it will break any installation of Chrome/Chromium once you sign it, even without the flag (as you saw in Chromium)...

I believe the flags are defined in the Local State file in the user data directory, but I hardly believe it will help.

☆PhistucK

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[Miles Cranmer]

I managed to launch chrome by using sudo and running it in --no-sandbox (so I guess the passwords file had a permissions issue?). After that, I turned off the flag. It looks like that was enough to transfer it to my user account's setting (or maybe that version of chrome is out of date, as I don't see the same name flag on my mac? On my mac I see two separate flags for import and export), so I can use Chrome in other operating systems without problem. I still have problems in non-sudo mode on Linux for some reason, so I think I will have to clear all my chrome and chromium files. Or maybe that flag is stuck for the old version of chrome.

Cheers,

Miles