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" wrote: > nope. that didn't do anything I reboot it and it said chrome was running > on the same ps. : > > bmike1@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@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 > 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 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 >>> 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~(-: >>>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >