Problem:
For nodes with RHEL 8 operating systems, web tests conducted on Chrome versions 97 and 108 do not function as intended.
Reason:
The crashpad handler for chrome 97 and 108 gets redirected to the “/home/<serviceuser>/.config” directory, However, the crashpad handler is unable to access this directory since the Chrome doesn’t have access to write to this directory due to which the Chrome Instance launched is crashing.
Chrome cannot access the "/home/<serviceuser>/.config" directory since it is owned by "root:root" by default. This is because the group <serviceuser> only has "rx" rights, as can be seen below.
Fix:
The ownership of "/home/<serviceuser>/.config" must be changed to "serveruser:cp" by clients in order to resolve this issue.
Verify that the directory has the following permissions: user=rwx, group=rx, others=rx, or 766.
Kindly utilize root or superuser capabilities to execute the following commands to apply these modifications.
$ chown -R <serviceuser>:<servicegroup> /home/<serviceuser>/.config
$ chmod -R 766 /home/<serviceuser>/.config
NOTE: Please substitute the previously configured serviceuser and servicegroup, which are typically "serveruser" and "cp," respectively, for <serviceuser> and <servicegroup>.