Bug 1539244

Summary:	chrome-remote-desktop does not start
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paramjit Oberoi <p_s_oberoi>
Component:	chromium	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	27	CC:	liblit, tcallawa, yaneti
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Description Paramjit Oberoi 2018-01-27 05:42:48 UTC

Description of problem:
chrome-remote-desktop fails to start with the following error:

$ /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-remote-desktop -s 1366x765 --start --foreground
2018-01-26 21:31:30,825:ERROR:Could not execute /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/user-session: No such file or directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
chrome-remote-desktop-63.0.3239.108-1.fc27.x86_64

How reproducible:
1. run chrome-remote-desktop using the command above
2. it fails with an error about user-session

Actual results:
2018-01-26 21:31:30,825:ERROR:Could not execute /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/user-session: No such file or directory

Expected results:
chrome-remote-desktop should start a desktop session and start accepting connections.

Additional info:
I tried symlinking user-session:
sudo ln -s /etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/user-session /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/user-session

That led to a similar error about remoting_user_session. I tried symlinking that:
sudo ln -s /etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/remoting_user_session /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/remoting_user_session

That led to an error about libbase.so:
/usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/remoting_user_session: error while loading shared libraries: libbase.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/libbase.so already existed, so I not sure what to do next.

Comment 1 Paramjit Oberoi 2018-05-09 04:50:28 UTC

Workaround: on Fedora 28, with chrome-remote-desktop-65.0.3325.181-1.fc28.x86_64, it works for me after making user-session setuid root:

$ sudo chmod +s /usr/lib64/chrome-remote-desktop/user-session

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 14:56:38 UTC

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Comment 3 Paramjit Oberoi 2018-11-28 07:03:24 UTC

This has been fixed for a while now, actually.