mkdir: cannot create directory '/.local': Permission denied

[MarcPinnell]

I've seen other similar posts, but none of the resolutions in those posts are helping me. I can open Chrome (and create a PDF) successfully from the command line, but when I try to use this library I am getting:

Chrome process stopped before startup completed. Additional info: mkdir: cannot create directory '/.local': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch '/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list': No such file or directory

This is the code I am using (failing in the "createBrowser" step):

$browserFactory = new BrowserFactory('google-chrome');

// starts headless chrome
$browser = $browserFactory->createBrowser([
	'headless'		=> false,
	'keepAlive' 	       => true,
	'windowSize'	        => [1920, 1080],
	'noSandbox'		=> true,
	'debugLogger'	=> 'php://stdout', // will enable verbose mode
	'ignoreCertificateErrors' => true,
	'customFlags' => [
		'--headless=new',
	],
]);

Any suggestions on how to make this work?

[buismaarten]

I see you are trying to use the new headless in Google Chrome, from my experience this doesn't work in Docker (yet).

[MarcPinnell]

We are not using this with Docker.

[ditatompel]

Chrome process stopped before startup completed. Additional info: mkdir: cannot create directory '/.local': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch '/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list': No such file or directory

Chrome should not create hidden /.local folder at the root of your operating system. This may be issue with the user environment variable who execute your php script.

[freelock]

hmm in my case it was trying to touch '/var/www/.local', inside the Docker container. I tried creating that as root, and setting it so it was writable by the user, and now I get a different error:

RuntimeException: Chrome process stopped before startup completed. Additional info: chrome_crashpad_handler: --database is required Try 'chrome_crashpad_handler --help' for more information. [6673:6673:0902/154840.854156:ERROR:socket.cc(120)] recvmsg: Connection reset by peer (104) in HeadlessChromium\Browser\BrowserProcess->HeadlessChromium\Browser{closure}() (line 422 of /var/www/html/endelman-survey/survey-dev/vendor/chrome-php/chrome/src/Browser/BrowserProcess.php).

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