Chrome does not start on OSX after fresh install

Question

It does not matter if I install it via brew or the official google website.

When I start it, it returns an error message:

Path:                  /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Identifier:            com.google.Chrome
Version:               78.0.3904.70 (3904.70)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Google Chrome [25447]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2019-10-29 21:12:38.185 +0100
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.15 (19A602)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     4.0 (17P572)
Anonymous UUID:        624E795F-4392-2D73-55A9-FA070AADAF67

Sleep/Wake UUID:       BA0934C2-9072-4B7F-8D72-335B29B00F6C

Time Awake Since Boot: 41000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       780 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Trace/BPT trap: 5
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x5
Terminating Process:   exc handler [25447]

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.google.Chrome.framework     0x000000010d705f43 0x108af0000 + 79781699
1   com.google.Chrome.framework     0x0000000108af3b35 0x108af0000 + 15157
2   com.google.Chrome.framework     0x000000010b241a25 0x108af0000 + 41228837
3   com.google.Chrome.framework     0x000000010b24194e 0x108af0000 + 41228622
4   com.google.Chrome.framework     0x000000010daf8e19 0x108af0000 + 83922457
5   com.google.Chrome.framework     0x000000010b240f44 0x108af0000 + 41226052
6   com.google.Chrome.framework     0x0000000108af347b ChromeMain + 187
7   com.google.Chrome               0x0000000101ff5904 main + 372
8   libdyld.dylib                   0x00007fff6ccf8405 start + 1

Thread 1:
0   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x00007fff6cf015b4 start_wqthread + 0

Thread 2:
0   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x00007fff6cf015b4 start_wqthread + 0

Thread 3:
0   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x00007fff6cf015b4 start_wqthread + 0

Thread 4:
0   libsystem_pthread.dylib         0x00007fff6cf015b4 start_wqthread + 0

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x00007fda1e71a0b0  rbx: 0x00007fda1e60e1a0  rcx: 0x00000000000003e6  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000000000005  rsi: 0x00007ffeedc0b518  rbp: 0x00007ffeedc0b500  rsp: 0x00007ffeedc0b500
   r8: 0x0000000000000005   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x0000000000000000  r11: 0x0000000000000008
  r12: 0x00007ffeedc0b518  r13: 0x00007ffeedc0b998  r14: 0x0000000000000000  r15: 0x00007ffeedc0ba60
  rip: 0x000000010d705f43  rfl: 0x0000000000000293  cr2: 0x000000010b3114c0

Logical CPU:     2
Error Code:      0x00000000
Trap Number:     3


Binary Images:
       0x101ff4000 -        0x10201dfff +com.google.Chrome (78.0.3904.70 - 3904.70) <DDDD5CED-62D1-33FC-BB57-92084EDA4B95> /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
       0x1089ef000 -        0x108a7d93f  dyld (732.8) <42C11B81-6928-369F-B03E-D57355572700> /usr/lib/dyld
       0x108af0000 -        0x110ee0f17 +com.google.Chrome.framework (78.0.3904.70 - 3904.70) <A82589DF-0869-36A1-8720-5B06C9042155> /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Frameworks/Google Chrome Framework.framework/Versions/78.0.3904.70/Google Chrome Framework
    0x7fff3155b000 -     0x7fff31752ff2  com.apple.avfoundation (2.0 - 1722.27.4.5) <EC398B56-6AFF-3B51-837C-E2F9999097EA> /System/Library/Frameworks/AVFoundation.framework/Versions/A/AVFoundation
    0x7fff31753000 -     0x7fff3181eff8  com.apple.audio.AVFAudio (1.0 - ???) <2ED23D7A-9635-3D52-BEFE-3044062B023A> /System/Library/Frameworks/AVFoundation.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/AVFAudio.framework/Versions/A/AVFAudio

[...]

External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 1
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 288158
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=744.4M resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=744.4M(100%)
Writable regions: Total=108.3M written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=108.3M(100%)

                                VIRTUAL   REGION 
REGION TYPE                        SIZE    COUNT (non-coalesced) 
===========                     =======  ======= 
Activity Tracing                   256K        1 
CoreServices                        88K        1 
Dispatch continuations            24.0M        1 
Kernel Alloc Once                    8K        1 
MALLOC                            71.6M       31 
MALLOC guard page                   16K        4 
PROTECTED_MEMORY                     4K        1 
STACK GUARD                       56.0M        5 
Stack                             10.0M        5 
VM_ALLOCATE                         44K        2 
__DATA                            45.8M      354 
__DATA_CONST                        20K        1 
__FONT_DATA                          4K        1 
__LINKEDIT                       351.1M        4 
__OBJC_RO                         31.8M        1 
__OBJC_RW                         1760K        1 
__TEXT                           393.3M      352 
__UNICODE                          564K        1 
mapped file                       54.2M       10 
shared memory                      640K       15 
===========                     =======  ======= 
TOTAL                              1.0G      792 

Model: MacBookPro15,1, BootROM 1037.0.78.0.0 (iBridge: 17.16.10572.0.0,0), 6 processors, 6-Core Intel Core i7, 2,6 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 
Graphics: kHW_IntelUHDGraphics630Item, Intel UHD Graphics 630, spdisplays_builtin
Graphics: kHW_AMDRadeonPro560XItem, Radeon Pro 560X, spdisplays_pcie_device, 4 GB
Memory Module: BANK 0/ChannelA-DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR4, 2400 MHz, SK Hynix, -
Memory Module: BANK 2/ChannelB-DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR4, 2400 MHz, SK Hynix, -
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x7BF), wl0: Jul 24 2019 00:02:16 version 9.30.357.3.32.5.33 FWID 01-22b80374
Bluetooth: Version 7.0.0f8, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en0
USB Device: USB 3.1 Bus
USB Device: Apple T2 Bus
USB Device: Touch Bar Backlight
USB Device: Touch Bar Display
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: Headset
USB Device: Ambient Light Sensor
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Apple T2 Controller
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 47.3
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 47.3

At first it was not responding at all. After I put sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome once, now I get the error message. (Yes, I had a version of Chrome or Chromium up and running before the reinstall).

How can I fix this? And does someone have similar problems?

Answer 1

I actually had a similar issue where this answer gave me a strong clue about what was wrong. In my case, I did not have a 'Chrome' folder under ~/Library/Application Support/Google/ although I did have a 'Drive' folder, as I clearly installed Google Drive before installing Chrome.

I created the 'Chrome' folder manually and, as soon as I retried opening Chrome, it populated that folder with dozens of files and started successfully.

Apparently Google developers count on Chrome being the only Google product installed when it first launches?