ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(121)] Failed to launch GPU process

Question

i am trying to configure debugging port for google chrome extension for Visual studio for client side debugging in terminal using below commands and getting the below error,

/Applications/Google\\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\\ Chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222

[96138:85251:0321/103001.249367:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(121)] Failed to launch GPU process.

Created new window in existing browser session.

i have tried export BROWSER=google-chrome too, but its not working. i hope i have to type this command in terminal . I am using MAC high Sierra , How can i resolve it.

Answer 1

I had a similar error when working with the bokeh python3 library on Ubuntu 16.04. I found a solution on a thread for jupyter notebook on github.

From: Github Issue

I had this same error ("ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(108)] Failed to launch GPU process"). After running jupyter notebook, I would get a new tab in google-chrome, but it would be blank.

Following but slightly modifying @wewan's advice, I ran "export BROWSER=google-chrome". Then running jupyter notebook worked as expected. I am using Ubuntu 16.04, Google Chrome 62.0.3202.62, and Jupyter 4.3.0. Also, if this works, you'll obviously want to add the export command to your .bashrc or .bash_profile

I did a raw export at the command line, and it corrected my issue.

export BROWSER=google-chrome

If this works, you will want to add this to your profile. I am not well-versed with Macs, but I believe there is a .bashrc file to which you can add the export.