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Fix for “Aw, Snap!” when loading Twitter on Chrome on Fedora 15 with SELinux enforcing enabled

By on June 11, 2011

Good thing I found the fix in the Chromium issues list because I was already tempted to disable SELinux altogether.

Daniel Walsh explains:

We are trying to control what the chrome-sandbox is allowed to do, since it is setuid. The bug that you are seeing is caused by a file/directory being created in the homedir with the wrong label on it. In F15 we did not have policycoreutils-restorecond installed by default, which would have fixed the mislabeled directory. We can add this to a comps file to make sure it gets installed in the future. In F16 we have the ability to label these files/directories correctly on creation.

The quick fix is to execute the following command:

restorecon -R ~/.config

The command also solves the problem where the Xmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer and Delicious Bookmarks Extensions keeps on crashing on Chrome on Fedora 15.

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22 responses to “Fix for “Aw, Snap!” when loading Twitter on Chrome on Fedora 15 with SELinux enforcing enabled”

  1. grebgrub
    grebgrub June 15, 2011 at 02:29 |

    THANK YOU
    sorry for shouting but thanks so much for the fix!

  2. Randell
    Randell June 17, 2011 at 00:34 |

    You’re welcome, grebgrub! Glad to help. =)

  3. Scottthomas
    Scottthomas June 21, 2011 at 07:56 |

    Worked like a charm!

    This problem was driving me insane (I thought it was a flash issue). Imagine my delight when Google returned this post, with all the right keywords represented in the title!

    Thanks Randell.

  4. Randell
    Randell June 28, 2011 at 20:04 |

    You’re welcome, Scottthomas! =)

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  6. John Thompson
    John Thompson July 9, 2011 at 09:19 |

    Thanks very much for this fix, Randell! Nice blog. I added your RSS feed to my Google Reader page.

  7. John
    John July 24, 2011 at 03:19 |

    Fantastic! This was rather annoying as iGoogle was causing Chrome to crash for me, not great when its your homepage :) Thanks for the fix, worked like a charm.

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  9. Yves
    Yves August 2, 2011 at 01:27 |

    Thank you!

  10. Jeroen
    Jeroen August 9, 2011 at 15:53 |

    Thank you, this was working for me.

  11. anggriawan
    anggriawan September 12, 2011 at 20:17 |

    Thank you. It works! :)

  12. Mike Bullet
    Mike Bullet September 15, 2011 at 11:38 |

    This is what I got:

    Command not found. Failed to search for file: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

  13. André Dietishei
    André Dietishei September 19, 2011 at 18:57 |

    awesome, finally able to get to twitter.com again. thank you!

  14. Stuart Brightwell
    Stuart Brightwell September 20, 2011 at 15:43 |

    Wow, so simple?? THANK YOU!!!!!

  15. Lenrek
    Lenrek September 21, 2011 at 12:24 |

    I thought this was bug in Chrome. Thank you so much!

  16. Mark Darbyshire
    Mark Darbyshire September 22, 2011 at 07:45 |

    This post is a life-saver! I think for me Chrome was crashing for any site with offline functionality. Thank you for the fix. :)

  17. Dirk Holten
    Dirk Holten September 22, 2011 at 19:01 |

    Wow! I was desperately trying to access Google calendar! Thank you for posting this!

  18. snowman
    snowman October 21, 2011 at 03:29 |

    Super, thanks much for your advice … Chrome finally working properly.

  19. champi
    champi October 23, 2011 at 18:30 |

    thank you very much. it helped fixing the iGoogle site too :)

  20. Dandapani
    Dandapani November 16, 2011 at 02:53 |

    As far as I am concerned, for the normal desktop user of Fedora, SELinux is of the Devil. All my Fedora frustrations come down to problems with SELinux. I just turn it down from enforcing to permissive at each install. SELinux is nothing more than a full time job generator for the creators and serves no helpful purpose but to frustrate Fedora users.

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