Some users lost access to google-chrome...

[vmunich]

Hi everyone,
i am running the latest Mageia.
All of a sudden I noticed that one of my user could no longer run google-chrome.
The program does not appear in his menu...

I reinstalled google-chrome-stable (downloaded the rpm from the google-chrome website) and that did not solve the problem.
What solved the problem was to give this user more permissions for /opt (where apparently chrome is installed).
chmod 755...
My question are:
- has anybody experienced this issue lately ? (user not being able to run chrome)
- what are the standard (recommended) permissions for /opt ?

I don't remember having changed anything so it came as a surprise
Thanks
Vincent

[Germ]

Look in:
/home/$USER/.config/google-chrome/

If there is a SingletonLock file, delete it.

[doktor5000]

If the permissions would have been insufficient it would logically be inaccessible for ALL users, not only for some. Might be helpful if you would add some more details.
I'm also running chrome and have had no such issues, although I've only got one user on my box.

You can easily check the default Mageia permissions:

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$ rpm -qlv filesystem | grep -w /opt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root                        0 Sep  6  2022 /opt