conflict with chromium - one fix

[Charles Ess]

Hi all,

A couple of days ago, Chromium on my Pi4b+ (running the simh / pidp11 software / console just fine, including networking in BSD 2.11) stopped launching..

Attempting to run it from the terminal generated the following error messages (translated roughly from Norwegian, sorry):

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/etc/chromium.d/README: line 1- no command found Any

[36576:36576::0112/2205650.738679:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(353)] The profile appears to be in use by another Chromium-process (2183) by another computer (pidp-11). Chromium has the lowest profile so that it will not by corrupted. If you are sure that no other process is using the profile, you can unlock the profile and restart Chromium.

[36576:36576::0112/2205650.738679::ERROR:message_box_dialog.cc(146)] Unable to show a dialog outside the UI threat message loop: chromium - the profile appears to be in use by another Chromium-process (2183) by another computer (pidp-11). Chromium has the lowest profile so that it will not by infected. If you are sure that no other process is using the profile, you can unlock the profile and restart Chromium.

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I've tried a couple of ways of doing so - the one that worked was to issue the following command from the terminal:

rm -rf ~/.config/chromium/Singleton*

There may be much better ways to resolve the conflict - would be happy to learn what they are. Thanks in advance,

- charles

[Robin Hodgson]

FYI: Changing your machine's hostname will trigger the issue you observed. Your fix appears to be the proper way to address this issue.