Cannot start IPFS desktop: The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now.

I’m running Manjaro Linux (based on Arch) and tried to install IPFS Desktop from source after the official (.AppImage) version didn’t work.

But to my surprise, I got the same error.

I ran

• Git clone
• npm install
• npm start
  • The output of which is displayed below

[bernd@bernd-pc ipfs-desktop]$ npm start

> ipfs-desktop@0.9.0-beta.2 start /home/bernd/Build/ipfs-desktop
> cross-env NODE_ENV=development electron -r @babel/register src/index.js

[18816:0820/141831.072284: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 /home/bernd/Build/ipfs-desktop/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

Please note that I am also using nvm:

[bernd@bernd-pc ~]$ nvm ls
->     v11.15.0
        v12.8.0
         system
default -> 11.15.0 (-> v11.15.0)
node -> stable (-> v12.8.0) (default)
stable -> 12.8 (-> v12.8.0) (default)
iojs -> N/A (default)
unstable -> N/A (default)
lts/* -> lts/dubnium (-> N/A)
lts/argon -> v4.9.1 (-> N/A)
lts/boron -> v6.17.1 (-> N/A)
lts/carbon -> v8.16.0 (-> N/A)
lts/dubnium -> v10.16.2 (-> N/A)

Why won’t IPFS Desktop start? And what does the error mean anyways?

[ZeroAurora]

I’m running into this as well in Debian testing

[Tanja-4732]

Just out of curiosity: are you using any other Electron apps?

I am using VS Code (from the Manjaro repos) and Discord (from the AUR), which both work fine for me.