[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#686625: chromium: Must be able to get user data directory!

[clayton]

Package: chromium
Version: 21.0.1180.89~r154005-1
Severity: normal

Already reported at
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144802
but I feel this *might* be a Debian-specific issue, as chromium seems to be having difficulty with the local
file system.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a new linux account, ie. adduser dummy
2. Open terminal, execute "sux dummy"
3. Start chromium in terminal: "chromium&"

What is the expected result?
chromium starts

What happens instead?
chromium does not start, and pukes this error instead:

$ chromium&
[1] 11026
dummy at x60s:/home/ckoen$ [11026:11026:6734994198:FATAL:chrome_browser_main.cc(1214)] Check failed: 
PathService::Get(chrome::DIR_USER_DATA, &user_data_dir_). Must be able to get user data directory!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector  20.0.1132.57~r145807-1
ii  gconf-service       3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libasound2          1.0.25-4
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libbz2-1.0          1.0.6-4
ii  libc6               2.13-35
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-2
ii  libcups2            1.5.3-1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.0-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5      2.0.19-stable-3
ii  libexpat1           2.1.0-1
ii  libflac8            1.2.1-6
ii  libfontconfig1      2.9.0-7
ii  libfreetype6        2.4.9-1
ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.1-2
ii  libgconf-2-4        3.2.5-1+build1
ii  libgcrypt11         1.5.0-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.32.3-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0   3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libjpeg8            8d-1
ii  libnspr4            2:4.9.1-1
ii  libnss3             2:3.13.5-1
ii  libnss3-1d          2:3.13.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libpng12-0          1.2.49-1
ii  libpulse0           2.0-6
ii  libspeex1           1.2~rc1-6
ii  libstdc++6          4.7.1-2
ii  libudev0            175-7
ii  libx11-6            2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcomposite1      1:0.4.3-2
ii  libxext6            2:1.3.1-2
ii  libxfixes3          1:5.0-4
ii  libxml2             2.8.0+dfsg1-5
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.7-1
ii  libxslt1.1          1.1.26-13
ii  libxss1             1:1.2.2-1
ii  xdg-utils           1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

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