Failing to start electron

[JesterOrNot]

Describe the bug
When trying to start an electron app I get

gitpod-electron@1.0.0 start /workspace/Gitpod-Electron
electron .

[1450:1124/220307.833744: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 /workspace/Gitpod-Electron/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

To Reproduce
open https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/JesterOrNot/Gitpod-Electron
Expected behavior
Electron app starts as expected
Additional Information

[svenefftinge]

Are you using the workspace-vnc image?
https://github.com/eclipse-theia/theia has a working setup for electron.

[JesterOrNot]

Yes it is

[JesterOrNot]

@svenefftinge any thoughts?

[jankeromnes]

I've noticed this error in the windows95 repo as well, which used to work fine. There may have been an electron or chromium change that breaks Gitpod. I'll take a look.

[jankeromnes]

The solution is to start Electron with --no-sandbox, like so:

https://github.com/JesterOrNot/ElectricMusic/blob/master/package.json#L12

See also https://community.gitpod.io/t/problem-setting-up-a-project-to-work-with-electron/278