Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported

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After starting with resin-electronjs I’ve since updated to electron 5 since I was having some issues with UI elements. Unfortunately now I’m running into some issues with my container it appears. I’ve resolved several issues along the way but now I am absolutely stuck on this error message:

10.07.19 16:31:11 (-0500) app [45:0710/213111.584824:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(89)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.

I’ve done a bit of research and tried several solutions, including setting the no sandbox flag via electron:

app.commandLine.appendSwitch(’–no-sandbox’);

Has anyone managed to get an electron 5 app running here?

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We have asked internally to see if anyone has tried this yet, and we will post back here if we have anything :+1:

Thanks for the info either way, and if you do happen to solve it in the meantime, please do update us, it would be very welcomed.

Rich

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You can try adding --no-sandbox after electron here https://github.com/balena-io/resin-electronjs/blob/master/app/start.sh#L21 .

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Or create a user and run your app with it.

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–no-sandbox

Thanks so much @zvin (and you too @richbayliss) - that did work. I’m a little disappointed that electron wouldn’t handle that switch but this is fine for now. I’ll also look at creating a separate non root user to run the application which seems like the objectively better approach.

You guys are awesome.

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Se soluciona haciendo la instalación como usuario local. Por ejemplo, se le dan los permisos sudo chmod u+x fichero.appimage y después el programa para poder abrirlo hacer lo siguiente: ./fichero.appimage --no-sandbox
Y así se soluciona.