Karma - Chrome failed 2 times (cannot start). Giving up

I had the same problem and tried a lot of the suggested solutions I found, but what finally solved it for me was to delete the node_modules folder and getting everything new via npm install.

Had the same issue with my build environment.

What i did is to follow the advice of Rafael Cichocki to enable the debugging:

logLevel: config.LOG_DEBUG

Then tried to launch the chrome-browser with exactly the same line that was visible int he debug output.

Turned out that chrome browser was crashing due to missing ttf fonts. So running:

apt-get install ttf-freefont

Solved that issue for me and karma started to launch chrome.