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Fix Crostini Wayland/X (sommelier) service

If you can't get X11 or Wayland GUI Linux apps to start anymore on Chrome OS, try the following.

In the Terminal app, this will show the status of your systemd user services/units:

systemctl --user

If sommelier@0.service and sommelier-x@0.service show a failed status, the following worked for me:

sudo ln -s /opt/google/cros-containers/bin/sommelier.elf /usr/bin/
systemctl --user restart sommelier@0.service
systemctl --user restart sommelier-x@0.service
export DISPLAY=:0

Check again to see if those services are started now:

systemctl --user

Hopefully now X/Wayland apps work again.

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vdegenne commented Dec 29, 2020

You are such a genius... Thanks a tone !
Has this issue been reported to the Chrome OS team by the way? Seems like a bug after all.

@TheTechRobo
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Thank you very much! This worked.

@DarkevilPT
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and how to fix the android container if it freezes?

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