jaminben Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 Hi, Anyone using Google Chrome version 41 and having issues with the GPO setting 'Set user data directory'? I've updated a few machines today and now when executing Chrome they just still and do nothing.... looking in event viewer I see the below error: Faulting application name: chrome.exe, version: 41.0.2272.87, time stamp: 0x54f95f94 Faulting module name: chrome.dll, version: 41.0.2272.87, time stamp: 0x54f959a9 Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000000000005a2de Faulting process id: 0xecc Faulting application start time: 0x01d05a7a525d44fb Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\41.0.2272.87\chrome.dll Report Id: 9028cf1f-c66d-11e4-8261-70f3957f13ca Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: If I remove the setting from GPO everything works as expected but moving from machine to machine I loose saved settings. Thanks Ben
DGardiner Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 this would explain the ticket i got earlier... chrome isn't launching - time to go poke at it them
DGardiner Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 Im updating the GPOs for chrome - just to see if that helps there were a lot of files with larger/newer sizes
DGardiner Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) Ok, i had the old user data dir in ${profile}\Google\Chrome, this caused a crash.... i cleared it and stuff works again i then i tried setting it to ${roaming_app_data}\Google\Chrome\ and its working.. this means either the data stored in the old dir is damaged somehow(i should have tried clearing it first....) or the $profile value is broken somehow hope that helps you Scratch that..... tried restarting chrome and its dead again... deleting the local state file i the specified folder seems to get it to start again this also fails after restarting... Edited March 9, 2015 by DGardiner
jaminben Posted March 9, 2015 Author Posted March 9, 2015 Looks like your at about the same stage as me... I tried deleting profile data, changing path to ${roaming_app_data}\Google\Chrome\ etc and nothings working ATM. Will have to take another look tomorrow.
DGardiner Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Looks like your at about the same stage as me... I tried deleting profile data, changing path to ${roaming_app_data}\Google\Chrome\ etc and nothings working ATM. Will have to take another look tomorrow. Just so you are aware the policy change seems to be causing some machines to launch a chrome instance and hang no idea why but you have to kill the process to get it going again... this is really annoying google are trying to break into the enterprise but not helping themselves here...
jaminben Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 Ours doesn't have a process to kill... but we do get an error in event viewer. Have you tried getting a more recent ADMX file?
DGardiner Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Ours doesn't have a process to kill... but we do get an error in event viewer. Have you tried getting a more recent ADMX file? yeah i updated yesterday - the hang only seems to be occurring on a handful of machines if you haven't already adding the update policies and disable chrome updates might be a good thing
DGardiner Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Ok, I'll try that. it will atleast stop computers that haven't upgraded from doing so - not sure if it will help but until a version that works comes out
jaminben Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 I've downloaded the ADMX file again and it's still listed as version 1.0 still.... I can't see anywhere in the GPO 'Disable Chrome Updates', can you tell me what the option is called please? Do you also use 'Disable Synchronisation of Google Data'?
DGardiner Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 I've downloaded the ADMX file again and it's still listed as version 1.0 still.... I can't see anywhere in the GPO 'Disable Chrome Updates', can you tell me what the option is called please? Do you also use 'Disable Synchronisation of Google Data'? its a separate adm Policy Templates - The Chromium Projects and yeah mine still says 1.0 but when i copied it into sysvol the files were all different sizes/newer 1
DGardiner Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=464616 just found this - gonna have a crack at it after lunch
jaminben Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 (edited) Did you have any luck? I think as their aware of the issue it should be fixed pretty quickly. EDIT: I changed our test GP from: ${documents}\Google\Google Chrome\ to ${documents}\Google\Google Chrome And its working again. Edited March 10, 2015 by jaminben 2
DGardiner Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Did you have any luck? I think as their aware of the issue it should be fixed pretty quickly. EDIT: I changed our test GP from: ${documents}\Google\Google Chrome\ to ${documents}\Google\Google Chrome And its working again. Nah sorry, got handed some other stuff to do and haven't got around to it yet. good to hear your testing is going well though does it re-open after the initial setup?
jaminben Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 Because the test users already had data in the redirected folder it just worked (no initial setup needed). 1
DGardiner Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Because the test users already had data in the redirected folder it just worked (no initial setup needed). Thats good to hear
DGardiner Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Thats good to hear can also confirm its working as expected now and everything is back to normal
ONO Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 Did you have any luck? I think as their aware of the issue it should be fixed pretty quickly. EDIT: I changed our test GP from: ${documents}\Google\Google Chrome\ to ${documents}\Google\Google Chrome And its working again. Thank you very much for sharing this, jaminben. I went down the route of going back to a version of Chrome that was "stable", but actually being able to dish out updates is much better I doubt it will be of any use now, but this is a powershell script I was using to clear out the AppData (pointing at "AppData\Roaming\Chrome") of all users on a given PC. $ErrorActionPreference= 'silentlycontinue' $pcName = Read-Host "Enter name of PC" $target = "\\" + $pcName + "\c$\Users" $users = Get-ChildItem $target foreach ($user in $users) { $item = $target + "\" + $user + "\AppData\Roaming\Chrome" Remove-Item $item -Recurse -Force Write-Host -NoNewLine "." } # If running in the console, wait for input before closing. if ($Host.Name -eq "ConsoleHost") { Write-Host "Press any key to continue..." $Host.UI.RawUI.FlushInputBuffer() # Make sure buffered input doesn't "press a key" and skip the ReadKey(). $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyUp") > $null } 1
Arthur Posted March 21, 2015 Posted March 21, 2015 The latest stable channel update (v41.0.2272.101) released a couple of days ago fixes the trailing slash bug.
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