element-web: FATAL Unable to start riot 1.3.2 after upgrade

% riot-web 
[19945:0806/110917.237662:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/Riot/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

% l /opt/Riot/chrome-sandbox 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.0M 2019-08-05 17:15 /opt/Riot/chrome-sandbox*

% apt policy riot-web 
riot-web:
  Installed: 1.3.2
  Candidate: 1.3.2
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.2 500
        500 https://packages.riot.im/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 6
Comments: 29 (5 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Upgrade electron-builder to 21.2.0 This is meant to help with: * macOS packaging for Electron 6 (https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/10473) * Linux desktop file should not have quotes (http... — committed to element-hq/element-web by jryans 5 years ago
Set SUID bit on chrome-sandbox for Debian This tweaks Linux packages for Riot to SUID `chrome-sandbox` after install. This is required as of Electron 5 for certain distros, such as Debian. This chan... — committed to element-hq/element-web by jryans 5 years ago
Set SUID bit on chrome-sandbox for Debian This tweaks Linux packages for Riot to SUID `chrome-sandbox` after install. This is required as of Electron 5 for certain distros, such as Debian. This chan... — committed to element-hq/element-web by jryans 5 years ago

Most upvoted comments

@ quazgar that would not work for the Flathub install.

gerroon on Aug 7, 2019

We did upgrade to Electron 5 as part of the recent release, so it could be related to this.

jryans on Aug 6, 2019