Chrome does not start on OSX after fresh install
It does not matter if I install it via brew or the official google website.
When I start it, it returns an error message:
Path: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Identifier: com.google.Chrome
Version: 78.0.3904.70 (3904.70)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Google Chrome [25447]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2019-10-29 21:12:38.185 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15 (19A602)
Report Version: 12
Bridge OS Version: 4.0 (17P572)
Anonymous UUID: 624E795F-4392-2D73-55A9-FA070AADAF67
Sleep/Wake UUID: BA0934C2-9072-4B7F-8D72-335B29B00F6C
Time Awake Since Boot: 41000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 780 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Signal: Trace/BPT trap: 5
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x5
Terminating Process: exc handler [25447]
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.google.Chrome.framework 0x000000010d705f43 0x108af0000 + 79781699
1 com.google.Chrome.framework 0x0000000108af3b35 0x108af0000 + 15157
2 com.google.Chrome.framework 0x000000010b241a25 0x108af0000 + 41228837
3 com.google.Chrome.framework 0x000000010b24194e 0x108af0000 + 41228622
4 com.google.Chrome.framework 0x000000010daf8e19 0x108af0000 + 83922457
5 com.google.Chrome.framework 0x000000010b240f44 0x108af0000 + 41226052
6 com.google.Chrome.framework 0x0000000108af347b ChromeMain + 187
7 com.google.Chrome 0x0000000101ff5904 main + 372
8 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff6ccf8405 start + 1
Thread 1:
0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6cf015b4 start_wqthread + 0
Thread 2:
0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6cf015b4 start_wqthread + 0
Thread 3:
0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6cf015b4 start_wqthread + 0
Thread 4:
0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6cf015b4 start_wqthread + 0
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x00007fda1e71a0b0 rbx: 0x00007fda1e60e1a0 rcx: 0x00000000000003e6 rdx: 0x0000000000000000
rdi: 0x0000000000000005 rsi: 0x00007ffeedc0b518 rbp: 0x00007ffeedc0b500 rsp: 0x00007ffeedc0b500
r8: 0x0000000000000005 r9: 0x0000000000000000 r10: 0x0000000000000000 r11: 0x0000000000000008
r12: 0x00007ffeedc0b518 r13: 0x00007ffeedc0b998 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x00007ffeedc0ba60
rip: 0x000000010d705f43 rfl: 0x0000000000000293 cr2: 0x000000010b3114c0
Logical CPU: 2
Error Code: 0x00000000
Trap Number: 3
Binary Images:
0x101ff4000 - 0x10201dfff +com.google.Chrome (78.0.3904.70 - 3904.70) <DDDD5CED-62D1-33FC-BB57-92084EDA4B95> /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
0x1089ef000 - 0x108a7d93f dyld (732.8) <42C11B81-6928-369F-B03E-D57355572700> /usr/lib/dyld
0x108af0000 - 0x110ee0f17 +com.google.Chrome.framework (78.0.3904.70 - 3904.70) <A82589DF-0869-36A1-8720-5B06C9042155> /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Frameworks/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Versions/78.0.3904.70/Google Chrome Framework
0x7fff3155b000 - 0x7fff31752ff2 com.apple.avfoundation (2.0 - 1722.27.4.5) <EC398B56-6AFF-3B51-837C-E2F9999097EA> /System/Library/Frameworks/AVFoundation.framework/Versions/A/AVFoundation
0x7fff31753000 - 0x7fff3181eff8 com.apple.audio.AVFAudio (1.0 - ???) <2ED23D7A-9635-3D52-BEFE-3044062B023A> /System/Library/Frameworks/AVFoundation.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/AVFAudio.framework/Versions/A/AVFAudio
[...]
External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 1
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 288158
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=744.4M resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=744.4M(100%)
Writable regions: Total=108.3M written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=108.3M(100%)
VIRTUAL REGION
REGION TYPE SIZE COUNT (non-coalesced)
=========== ======= =======
Activity Tracing 256K 1
CoreServices 88K 1
Dispatch continuations 24.0M 1
Kernel Alloc Once 8K 1
MALLOC 71.6M 31
MALLOC guard page 16K 4
PROTECTED_MEMORY 4K 1
STACK GUARD 56.0M 5
Stack 10.0M 5
VM_ALLOCATE 44K 2
__DATA 45.8M 354
__DATA_CONST 20K 1
__FONT_DATA 4K 1
__LINKEDIT 351.1M 4
__OBJC_RO 31.8M 1
__OBJC_RW 1760K 1
__TEXT 393.3M 352
__UNICODE 564K 1
mapped file 54.2M 10
shared memory 640K 15
=========== ======= =======
TOTAL 1.0G 792
Model: MacBookPro15,1, BootROM 1037.0.78.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.10572.0.0,0), 6 processors, 6-Core Intel Core i7, 2,6 GHz, 16 GB, SMC
Graphics: kHW_IntelUHDGraphics630Item, Intel UHD Graphics 630, spdisplays_builtin
Graphics: kHW_AMDRadeonPro560XItem, Radeon Pro 560X, spdisplays_pcie_device, 4 GB
Memory Module: BANK 0/ChannelA-DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR4, 2400 MHz, SK Hynix, -
Memory Module: BANK 2/ChannelB-DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR4, 2400 MHz, SK Hynix, -
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x7BF), wl0: Jul 24 2019 00:02:16 version 9.30.357.3.32.5.33 FWID 01-22b80374
Bluetooth: Version 7.0.0f8, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
USB Device: USB 3.1 Bus
USB Device: Apple T2 Bus
USB Device: Touch Bar Backlight
USB Device: Touch Bar Display
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: Headset
USB Device: Ambient Light Sensor
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Apple T2 Controller
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 47.3
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 47.3
At first it was not responding at all. After I put sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome once, now I get the error message. (Yes, I had a version of Chrome or Chromium up and running before the reinstall).
How can I fix this? And does someone have similar problems?
Tillus3 Answers
Sorry for being late!!
I was having the same issue and this helped:
In the Mac menu bar at the top of the screen, click Go.
Select Go to Folder.
Enter ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/ in the text field, then press Go.
Locate the folder called "Default" in the directory window that opens and rename it as "Backup default."
Try opening Google Chrome again. A new "Default" folder is automatically created as you start using the browser.
You solved it but i wanted to tell that only default folder need to be changed.
Shubh SaraswatI actually had a similar issue where this answer gave me a strong clue about what was wrong. In my case, I did not have a 'Chrome' folder under ~/Library/Application Support/Google/ although I did have a 'Drive' folder, as I clearly installed Google Drive before installing Chrome.
I created the 'Chrome' folder manually and, as soon as I retried opening Chrome, it populated that folder with dozens of files and started successfully.
Apparently Google developers count on Chrome being the only Google product installed when it first launches?
I had the same issue. Owner of the directory was root, so this command helped me
sudo chown %username%:staff ~/Library/Application Support/Google
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