balenaEtcher (upstream needs to update to electron 13+) #1828

Crilum · 2022-05-16T22:58:36Z

Confirmations

I searched for similar bug reports in https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/issues and found none were relevant.
I tried updating Pi Apps and the issue is still not fixed. How to update Pi Apps?

What happened?

Etcher fails with seccomp sandbox error (see #1828 (comment) for upstream issues)

Description

Etcher has been broken for some time now..
See logs below.

This might have something to do with #1

What is your operating system?

Raspberry Pi OS 11 (Bullseye)

(Optional) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?

$ /opt/balenaEtcher/balena-etcher-electron
[Axios v1.7.9+5945ab1f] Transitional option 'clarifyTimeoutError' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
[Axios v1.7.9+5945ab1f] Transitional option 'forcedJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
[Axios v1.7.9+5945ab1f] Transitional option 'silentJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
[3191:0516/164142.592492:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(415)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
/opt/balenaEtcher/balena-etcher-electron: line 10:  3191 Trace/breakpoint trap   "${script_dir}"/balena-etcher-electron.bin "$@"

Crilum · 2022-05-16T23:02:07Z

Adding --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox fixes the problem.

ryanfortner · 2022-05-16T23:04:20Z

Interesting. I built the v1.7.9 debs using Debian Buster. I’ll try with Bullseye and see if there is any difference.

In the meantime, are you able to test on Buster @Crilum ?

Crilum · 2022-05-16T23:24:46Z

Yeah, I can do that.

Crilum · 2022-05-16T23:28:42Z

On bullseye, etcher just stalls after selecting an image..

ryanfortner · 2022-05-16T23:30:25Z

On bullseye, etcher just stalls after selecting an image..

did you select an .xz image? I remember having problems with etcher using those in the past.

Crilum · 2022-05-16T23:32:28Z

Yeah, I did actually.. It seemed to work before I did that.

Crilum · 2022-05-16T23:40:56Z

It works fine in buster. I noticed during the install that chmod failed to, well, chmod /opt/balenaEtcher/chrome-sandbox. It said there was no such file or directory.

$ /opt/balenaEtcher/balena-etcher-electron
[Axios v1.7.9+5945ab1f] Transitional option 'clarifyTimeoutError' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
[Axios v1.7.9+5945ab1f] Transitional option 'forcedJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
[Axios v1.7.9+5945ab1f] Transitional option 'silentJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
ready-to-show: 4.397s

ryanfortner · 2022-05-16T23:43:49Z

I noticed during the install that chmod failed to, well, chmod /opt/balenaEtcher/chrome-sandbox. It said there was no such file or directory.

That is safe to ignore.

I will add this to my to-do list and get new debs released as soon as I can.

Crilum · 2022-05-17T00:23:51Z

I just built on bullseye, we still have the seccomp-sandbox error:

webpack 5.11.0 compiled successfully in 41623 ms
do you want to run a test of etcher to see if compilation worked [y/n]? y
close etcher window to continue to packaging.
waiting for 5 seconds.....
Starting Etcher...

> balena-etcher@1.7.9 start
> ./node_modules/.bin/electron .

[Axios v1.7.9] Transitional option 'clarifyTimeoutError' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
[Axios v1.7.9] Transitional option 'forcedJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
[Axios v1.7.9] Transitional option 'silentJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
../../sandbox/linux/seccomp-bpf-helpers/sigsys_handlers.cc:**CRASHING**:seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0403
[8023:0516/181257.120324:FATAL:gpu_data_manager_impl_private.cc(415)] GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye.
/home/pi/src/etcher/etcher/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGTRAP
Etcher failed to start!

Here's the deb:

balena-etcher-electron_1.7.9%2B5945ab1f_armv7l.deb

theofficialgman · 2022-05-17T00:47:59Z

I have already told you before, this is an upstream etcher issue (balena-io/etcher#3647) due to a glibc change electron/electron#31091 . the version of electron used with etcher (12.2.3) is very very old and has this bug. they need to upgrade their codebase to one of the versions that doesn't have this issue.
The fix is available in Electron >= 14

this is an over 6 month old issue. until etcher gets their act together, just consider it unmaintained

Botspot · 2022-05-18T04:20:55Z

Would it be worthwhile to add the --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox flag for the time being?

Crilum · 2022-05-18T06:49:12Z

@Botspot I think it would. Otherwise Etcher is completely broken for all Bullseye users..

Botspot · 2022-05-18T14:36:22Z

@Botspot I think it would. Otherwise Etcher is completely broken for all Bullseye users..

I've opened an issue on @Itai-Nelken's repo.
Itai-Nelken/BalenaEtcher-arm#6

ryanfortner · 2022-05-18T16:42:11Z

@Crilum this issue should be fixed with #1838. The desktop entry in the new debs has --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox included in the run command.

theofficialgman · 2022-05-18T19:31:41Z

lets keep this open for tracking upstream electron, since this is only a temporary fix until they update

Botspot · 2022-07-17T22:28:12Z

Has balena updated their Electron version yet?

theofficialgman · 2022-07-17T22:34:57Z

Etcher hasn't had a commit since April.
I think balena may have abandoned the software

theofficialgman · 2022-11-20T16:07:32Z

upstream is opposed to fixing their repo balena-io/etcher#3647 (comment)

this issue is closed in pi-apps as since the v1.10.0 release I have packaged it with electron ^13.5.0
a09e87f
https://github.com/Pi-Apps-Coders/files/blob/main/CompileCommands.md#balenaetcher

Crilum added the bug Something isn't working label May 16, 2022

theofficialgman added Upstream Bug something isn't working that can only be fixed upstream and removed bug Something isn't working labels May 17, 2022

ryanfortner closed this as completed May 18, 2022

theofficialgman reopened this May 18, 2022

theofficialgman changed the title ~~balenaEtcher broken - seccomp failure~~ balenaEtcher (upstream needs to update to electron 13+) May 18, 2022

theofficialgman closed this as completed Nov 20, 2022

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