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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2018
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chromium not opening whilst connected to VNC in centOS (Hyper-V VM)

Reported by intellih...@gmail.com, Feb 21 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0

Steps to reproduce the problem:
I have a VM running centOS 7 as a development machine. I use VNC (tigerVNC) to VNC into the VM. Chromium works perfectly when just opening through the hyper-V console but does not open when connected to VNC. When I click through gnome to open Chromium it appears to open (processing) but then nothing happens further.

I doubt this to be a bug with Chromium but really have no way of further troubleshooting why it won't open so would really appreciate some assistance.

What is the expected behavior?
Chromium should open in VNC

What went wrong?
It does not open

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 61.0.3163.100  Channel: stable
OS Version: centOS 7.4
Flash Version: 

These are some of the logs in /var/log/messages when I try and open:

Feb 21 11:25:28 local dbus[747]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Feb 21 11:25:28 local dbus-daemon: dbus[747]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Feb 21 11:25:29 local chromium-browser.desktop: Created new window in existing browser session.
Feb 21 11:25:53 local dbus[747]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.bluez': timed out
Feb 21 11:25:53 local dbus-daemon: dbus[747]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.bluez': timed out
Feb 21 11:26:07 local gnome-software-service.desktop: 09:26:07:0822 Gs  no app for changed window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com
Feb 21 11:26:07 local gnome-software-service.desktop: 09:26:07:0828 Gs  no app for changed launch-new-instance@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com
Feb 21 11:26:07 local gnome-software-service.desktop: 09:26:07:0829 Gs  no app for changed alternate-tab@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com
Feb 21 11:26:07 local gnome-software-service.desktop: 09:26:07:0840 Gs  no app for changed places-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com
Feb 21 11:26:07 local gnome-software-service.desktop: 09:26:07:0853 Gs  no app for changed apps-menu@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com
 
Labels: Needs-Milestone
Components: Services>Chromoting
Labels: Triaged-ET TE-NeedsTriageHelp
The issue seems to be out of TE-scope due to unavailability of centOS 7 as a development machine. Hence, adding label TE-NeedsTriageHelp for further investigation from dev team.

Thanks...!!
Components: -Services>Chromoting UI>Browser>Profiles
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This is the problem:

  Feb 21 11:25:29 local chromium-browser.desktop: Created new window in existing browser session.

Chrome doesn't support running against multiple DISPLAYs in the same profile. You'll need to either use the --user-data-dir command-line option or (better) set the CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR environment variable, perhaps in your vnc session script if tigerVNC has one. See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkcr/docs/user_data_dir.md#Overriding-the-User-Data-Directory for more details (there's nothing VNC-specific there, but there's some useful information).

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