When I click on the Google Chrome icon from the launcher it does not open. I tried searching in the dash and clicking on its icon but it does not open at all.
I tried the terminal as well, like this:
$ google-chrome
and this is the output:
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_settings_set_long_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS
(settings)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_settings_set_long_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS
(settings)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_settings_set_long_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS
(settings)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_settings_set_long_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS
(settings)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_settings_set_string_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS
(settings)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)'
failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)'
failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_icon_theme_prepend_search_path: assertion `GTK_IS_ICON_THEME
(icon_theme)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)'
failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_icon_theme_prepend_search_path: assertion `GTK_IS_ICON_THEME
(icon_theme)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)'
failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_icon_theme_prepend_search_path: assertion `GTK_IS_ICON_THEME
(icon_theme)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_settings_set_string_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS
(settings)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_settings_set_string_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS
(settings)' failed
(google-chrome:19866): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
IA__gtk_settings_set_string_property: assertion `GTK_SETTINGS
(settings)' failed
[19866:19866:0426/060718:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(239)]
readlink(/home/omar/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock) failed:
Invalid argument
[19866:19866:0426/060718:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(239)]
readlink(/home/omar/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock) failed:
Invalid argument
[19866:19866:0426/060718:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(263)] Failed
to create /home/omar/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock: File exists
[19866:19866:0426/060718:ERROR:process_singleton_linux.cc(239)]
readlink(/home/omar/.config/google-chrome/SingletonLock) failed:
Invalid argument
[19866:19866:0426/060718:ERROR:chrome_browser_main.cc(1157)] Failed to
create a ProcessSingleton for your profile directory. This means that
running multiple instances would start multiple browser processes
rather than opening a new window in the existing process. Aborting now
to avoid profile corruption.
Best Answer
If you don't find the
Singleton*files discussed in other answers, another source of this error is exhaustion of disk space.Try
df -hto see how much space you have left on your partitions; if any are full, free up some space and try again.