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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Chrome shows errors after being run with "sudo"

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After being run with "sudo", Chrome starts to pop up a pair of boxes
  that say "Your preferences cannot be read" (and, obviously, fails to
  read the preferences.) The problem is that two of the files in the
  ~user/.config directory are now owned by root and have 0700 as their
  permissions, and therefore cannot be read by the non-root user.

  Instant (but not permanent) fix: sudo chown $LOGNAME:$LOGNAME
  ~/.config/chromium/{Local\ State,Default/Preferences}

  Permanent fix: Write the pref data to the EUID's (rather than the
  RUID's) ~/.config directory. Failing that, at least make the error
  message clearer and more useful - perhaps by listing the affected
  files and giving the above solution so that the user knows what to do
  to fix it.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: chromium-browser 12.0.742.112~r90304-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct 13 07:49:10 2011
  Desktop-Session:
   DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome-classic
   XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome-classic:/etc/xdg
   XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome-classic:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
  Env:
   MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

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