Error: Failed to launch chrome

[jmorrisIII]

I installed jsreport using the link here. When I use the chrome-pdf or the html-to-xlsx recipe I get the error below. I found a possible solution here from @bjrmatos but not sure if I need to install additional software.

Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
jsreport 2.6.1

Error

Error: Failed to launch chrome!
[0206/092523.200380:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(89)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.


TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/troubleshooting.md

    at onClose (/srv/jsreportapp/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:342:14)
    at Interface.helper.addEventListener (/srv/jsreportapp/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/Launcher.js:331:50)
    at Interface.emit (events.js:203:15)
    at Interface.close (readline.js:397:8)
    at Socket.onend (readline.js:173:10)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:203:15)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1145:12)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)

[pofider]

In the linked installation steps we don't start the process as root.
You seem to do. I recommend to start over installation as none root.

Or if you need to start as root, change in jsreport.config.json prop chrome to have

"chrome": {
  "launchOptions": {
    "args": ["--no-sandbox"]
  }
}

[jmorrisIII]

Thanks @pofider adding the launchOptions worked but I will redo as non root user.

[devagrawal09]

I am also running into this issue. I am using jsreport-core, so I don't have a global configuration file. I already tried passing in { launchOptions: { args: [ '--no-sandbox' ] } } to the jsreport-chrome-pdf but it doesn't work. How do I pass the --no-sandbox configuration?

[pofider]

@devagrawal09 please report the jsrepor-core problems to the jsreport-core repository

However this should work

jsreport.use(require('jsreport-chrome-pdf')({ launchOptions: { args: [ '--no-sandbox' ] } }))