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Can't get Chrome Remote Desktop running via SSH ubuntu terminal

I’m trying to start running Screaming Frog in the Google Cloud Platform console using the steps on the ScreamingFrog website but I’m having trouble getting the Remote Desktop to run in SSH. Every time I enter DISPLAY= /opt/google/chrome-remote-desktop/start-host --code="4/0AZEOvhVqPx3gYL01LCIWIK8idzut9v47hRYwL5QWi4EOhDt_JJaO0ZrPLMCs_EiMNacfCQ" --redirect-url="https://remotedesktop.google.com/_/oauthredirect" --name=$(hostname)

and then enter a 6-digit pin twice, I get:

[0725/094427.353260:ERROR:daemon_controller_delegate_linux.cc(99)]   File "/opt/google/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-remote-desktop", line 649
    as infile,
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[0725/094427.353287:ERROR:daemon_controller_delegate_linux.cc(207)] Failed to start host.
Couldn't start host.

And then when I try to verify that it’s running by entering sudo systemctl status --no-pager chrome-remote-desktop@$USER, I get

sudo systemctl status --no-pager chrome-remote-desktop@$USER
● [email protected] - Chrome Remote Desktop instance for myname
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
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  1. 0

    Below are the reasons to get this error:

    1. In your GCP project under firewalls check whether the
      default-allow-rdp is allowed or denied.
      Navigation to check : Go to your respective project > click on VPN Network > firewalls under these firewalls there will be some default rules that are allocated and check accordingly.

    2. Follow this official doc to
      configure_and_start_the_chrome_remote_desktop_service

    Below command is used to set up and start the Chrome Remote Desktop
    service on your VM instance, linking it with your Google Account using
    the authorization code:

    DISPLAY= /opt/google/chrome-remote-desktop/start-host
    –code="4/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    –redirect-url="https://remotedesktop.google.com/_/oauthredirect"
    –name=$(hostname)

    Note: The authorization code in the command line is valid for only a few minutes, and you can use it only once. So, kindly check on this
    and try to reinstall again.

    1. As per the sudo systemctl status , your service is not enabled due to this you are getting Active: inactive (dead). Follow this
      troubleshooting doc to re-enable the service

    Let me know if the issue is still persisting after referring to the above steps.

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  2. 0

    I believe you’re doing everything right and Google has pushed a faulty package here. Chrome remote desktop used to work for me before but when I updated the Debian package recently this error started to appear. From the looks of it it’s a faulty python script.

    I managed to fix it by manually changing the script, note though that that’s usually not a good idea because you’re editing stuff that was installed by a debian package.

    What you can do is open the file /opt/google/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-remote-desktop, for example with vim (you’ll need sudo most likely):

    sudo vim /opt/google/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-remote-desktop

    and reformat the code near line 645 to the following (indentations matter in Python!)

    try:
  for config_file in ["pipewire.conf", "pipewire-pulse.conf",
                      self.pipewire_session_manager + ".conf"]:
      with open(os.path.join(SCRIPT_DIR, config_file + ".template"), "r") as infile:
          with open(os.path.join(runtime_path, config_file), "w") as outfile:
              template = string.Template(infile.read())
              outfile.write(template.substitute({
                    "instance_name": instance_name,
                    "runtime_path": runtime_path,
                    "sink_name": sink_name}))

  logging.info("Launching pipewire")
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