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I used Google Chrome all the time in by browsing time; I think then I tried to upgrade the system to 16.04 (but failed) and now google chrome is not working (not sure if that is the reason or not).

It shows me this error:

[6405:6437:0806/161203:ERROR:nss_util.cc(744)] Error initializing NSS with a persistent database (sql:/home/maldini/.pki/nssdb): /usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure
[6405:6437:0806/161203:ERROR:nss_util.cc(212)] Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: NSS error code: -5925
[6405:6437:0806/161203:FATAL:nss_util.cc(214)] nss_error=-5925, os_error=0
Aborted (core dumped)

I've been searching a lot to solve this, and every time I see people refer to the answer here: Google Chrome error: Error initializing NSS without a persistent database

I tried it, and it is not working. Other solutions I found is to install and use Chromium Browser. I did installed it but it didn't work neither and it shows me the same error above.

Update

This is the output from the terminal when I try to run chromium as sudo:

sudo chromium-browser 
[0820/003010:ERROR:nss_util.cc(98)] Failed to create /home/maldini/.pki/nssdb directory.
[0820/003010:FATAL:chrome_main_delegate.cc(411)] Check failed: process_type.empty(). Unable to get the user data directory for process type: zygote
#0 0x7f3b087afdee base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()
#1 0x7f3b087ce42e logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()
#2 0x5646620584eb <unknown>
#3 0x7f3b10187da2 <unknown>
#4 0x7f3b101867fd content::ContentMain()
#5 0x5646620578ea <unknown>
#6 0x7f3afce73830 __libc_start_main
#7 0x5646620577a9 <unknown>

The output of

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable.
(Reading database ... 244298 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking google-chrome-stable (52.0.2743.116-1) ...
Setting up google-chrome-stable (52.0.2743.116-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser (gnome-www-browser) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable to provide /usr/bin/google-chrome (google-chrome) in auto mode
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
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3 Answers3

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I had the same problem:

$ google-chrome-stable 
[12296:12330:0719/235802.416830:ERROR:nss_util.cc(706)] Error initializing NSS with a persistent database (sql:/home/andy/.pki/nssdb): /usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so: undefined symbol: PR_GetEnvSecure
[12296:12330:0719/235802.416884:ERROR:nss_util.cc(201)] Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: NSS error code: -5925
[12296:12330:0719/235802.416891:FATAL:nss_util.cc(203)] nss_error=-5925, os_error=0
Aborted (core dumped)

I found that libnss3-nssdb was removed and libnss3 was upgraded in a partial upgrade on my Ubuntu 16.04. Now I try to install libnss3-nssdb:

$ sudo apt install libnss3-nssdb 
...    
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libnss3-nssdb : Depends: libnss3 (= 2:3.21-1ubuntu4) but 2:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

then downgrade libnss3:

$ sudo apt install libnss3=2:3.21-1ubuntu4

Finally it works.

Andy
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From your errors and the output of your comments you have been running applications as elevated user which is making you loose permission to parts of your home folder.

You can fix this by running this command to give permission back to you userID:

$ sudo chown -R [youruserID]:[youruserID] ~[youruserID]

Change [youruserID] to the username you login with. Don't include the brackets in the command. The second [youruserID] is your groupID which is by default the same as your userID.

I was able to duplicate the error in your question by running the same command you ran:

$ sudo chromium-browser

After you have fixed your personal with the chown command above, reinstall Google chrome by downloading the latest provided by Google from:
https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/

Install it either by Double Clicking the deb file from your file browser, or from the commandline with:

$ sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

For the Chromium install it directly from the default repository the same way you did the first time:

$ sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
L. D. James
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This may not work for you. I was getting a related error message and solved it by calling chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/path/to/some/temp/directory/i/made/up/to/hold/my/browsing/profile/and/history.

HTH.

isomorphismes
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