Can't stay logged in on Google Chrome

Solution 1:

Okay, so my problem turned out to be that I had a corrupt Cookies file. I manually deleted the Cookies file in ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/ and that fixed the issue.

For ease of copy/paste, here are the commands:

cp ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Cookies ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Cookies.bak
rm ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Cookies

As Yalok has said in comments below, if you have multiple profiles, you can do this:

rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome/Profile*/Cookies

Solution 2:

In 2020, Chrome has a new thing to try: in the pic of you logged in next to the three dots in the upper right corner, click on it. There is a gear next to the "other people" choice. Deleting everyone (I had multiple copies of myself) and start over with the login and sync process. Did the trick for me (lubuntu 20.04 on an "Early 2011 MacBook Pro")