Google Chrome 20 fails to start in ubuntu 12.04

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Published on 2012-07-03T13:20:34Z Indexed on 2012/07/03 21:18 UTC
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Several days ago Google Chrome stoped working after an update.

If I start it in the terminal I can see the following output:

[6:6:4528137750:FATAL:sandbox_init_linux.cc(378)] prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS) failed: Invalid argument

Any idea how to solve this?

Chrome version: 20.0.1132.47
Ubuntu: 12.04 x64
Kernel: 3.2.0-21-generic #34-Ubuntu

EDIT:
It is possible to start chrome with --no-sandbox switch.

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