After version 15.1, Chrome fails to run under www-data account in Ubuntu

[volkanceylan]

This is just an information for those who might be having issues with Puppeteer after upgrading to 15.1+. I guess this not a Puppeteer issue but is about new headless mode or Chrome for testing changes. I spent several hours trying to identify the issue, and the only error I was seeing was something like:

One or more errors occurred. (Failed to launch browser! chrome_crashpad_handler: --database is required Try 'chrome_crashpad_handler --help' for more information.

There is no information on what has failed and running that chrome_crashpad_handler under www-data account is not helpful.

Seems like the problem is, the latest Chrome tries to create /var/www/.config/google-chrome-for-testing folder even if there are no errors etc. As I didn't have /var/www/.config folder it was crashing. I created .config and changed owner to www-data and it started working again.

[volkanceylan]

A similar issue: puppeteer/puppeteer#11023