Re: [vserver] Chrome on a vserver

From: Bruno Prémont <bonbons_at_linux-vserver.org>
Date: Wed 24 Feb 2010 - 17:41:00 GMT
Message-ID: <20100224184100.5bd839c4@neptune.home>

On Wed, 24 February 2010 "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:

> Hello, all. Has anyone gotten the Google Chrome browser to work in a
> VServer? No need to spend a lot of time on this. We are prepared to
> go do battle with it but, if someone else has solved it already, it
> would save us the time. It looks like its default configuration
> insists in writing to /dev/shm. Am I correct to assume that is a
> very bad idea in a vserver guest? Thanks - John
>
> [1538:1538:4716833642534:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-linux-64/build/src/base/shared_memory_posix.cc(192)]
> Creating shared memory in /dev/shm/com.google.chrome.xLMyJH failed:
> No such file or directory
> [1538:1538:4716833642580:ERROR:/usr/local/google/b/slave/chrome-official-linux-64/build/src/base/shared_memory_posix.cc(194)]
> This is frequently caused by incorrect permissions on /dev/shm. Try
> 'sudo chmod 777 /dev/shm' to fix.

Would it help to symlink /dev/shm to somewhere under /tmp (assuming
/tmp is tmpfs)? Otherwise you could add a tmpfs for /dev/shm in fstab of
your vserver's configuration.

Bruno
Received on Wed Feb 24 17:48:42 2010

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