unlock profile

[Stephen Partington]

Did you try a sudo killall chromium-browse. It looks like chromium is in
use and chrome cannot runb at the same time as they use the same profile.
On Jul 15, 2014 3:22 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> nope. that didn't do anything I reboot it and it said chrome was running
> on the same ps. :
>
> bmike1 at CQ57-1:~$ google-chrome
> [3101:3101:0715/151501:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(309)] The profile
> appears to be in use by another Google Chrome process (16915) on another
> computer (Presario-CQ57).  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.
> [3101:3101:0715/151501:ERROR:simple_message_box_views.cc(208)] 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 (16915) on
> another computer (Presario-CQ57).  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.
>
> bmike1 at CQ57-1:~$ sudo ps -A | grep chro
>  2557 ?        00:00:01 chromium-browse
>
>
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> sudo -ps -A | grep chro
>>
>> it might be running under an elevated process by accident during install.
>> worst case you can reboot the machine.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The thing about this is the error says the ps is 16915 but ps -e has no
>>> ps 16915.... I just checked again. :)
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am having a bear of a time with Chromium so I figured I would see if
>>>> Chrome worked any better so I download chrome and then tried to start it.
>>>> Nothing happened. So I opened a terminal emulator and started it from there
>>>> to see what errors would appear. Well, it seems to think chrome is running
>>>> and so has locked the profile. How does one ulock a profile. I tried
>>>> killing the process but that didn't work.
>>>>
>>>> --error--
>>>> [5029:5029:0715/141134:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(309)] The
>>>> profile appears to be in use by another Google Chrome process (16915) on
>>>> another computer (Presario-CQ57).  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.
>>>> [5029:5029:0715/141134:ERROR:simple_message_box_views.cc(208)] 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 (16915) on
>>>> another computer (Presario-CQ57).  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.
>>>>
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>
>>>
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>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
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