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[wakou]

Hi guys, when Chromium starts, the first tab pops-up a warning:

You are using an unsupported command-line flag: --no-sandbox. Stability and security will suffer.

None of my launchers has this flag set. Googling about for this warning gives some answers, most of them re. MSWin 7, including removing the flag from the command line of the launcher (none is set) and adjusting various options in about:flags but none seem to be relevant.

However if I go to about: in the address box, the following result shows up:

Chromium
24.0.1290.0 (Developer Build 160607)

OS
Linux

WebKit
537.13 (Unknown URL@0)

JavaScript
V8 3.14.1.2

Flash
11.2 r202

User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1290.0 Safari/537.13 SUSE/24.0.1290.0

Command Line
/usr/lib64/chromium/chromium --no-sandbox --password-store=kwallet --flag-switches-begin --enable-autologin --show-autofill-type-predictions --flag-switches-end

Executable Path
/usr/lib64/chromium/chromium

Profile Path
/home/stephen/.config/chromium/Default

/usr/lib64/chromium/chromium

is a 'shared library' and I don't know to to change things within it.

In that directory /usr/lib64/chromium are two scripts, chromium-generic and chromium-kde, both of which mention this switch:

SUSE Paste

SUSE Paste

I don't know if these are relevant or even being used.


The above scripts have a line pointing to:

APPNAME=chromium
LIBDIR=/usr/lib64/chromium
GDB=/usr/bin/gdb
CHROME_SANDBOX=/usr/lib/chrome_sandbox

The is no such file/dir in /usr/lib/chrome_sandbox

And further down:

if [ ! -u $CHROME_SANDBOX ] ; then
SANDBOX="--no-sandbox"
fi

Should I create an empty file there? Or a directory?


Or should I boycott Google altogether as despite their 'don't be evil' motto they are are evading corporation tax in the UK....

[john_hudson]

This may be a specific problem with the 64 bit version; there was a similar problem with the 32 bit version several versions ago. A quick check with my (otherwise identical) 32 bit version shows that /usr/lib/chrome_sandbox does exist and I have the same scripts in /usr/lib/chromium/ but I do not get the same message.

[nrickert]

The is no such file/dir in /usr/lib/chrome_sandbox

The file "/usr/lib/chrome_sandbox" is part of the package "chromium-suid-helper". That should have been installed. If it is not there, then install it.

[wakou]

Thanks guys, but:

sudo zypper in chromium-suid-helper
root's password:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'chromium-suid-helper' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'chromium-suid-helper-24.0.1290.0-1.19.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...


Nothing to do.

[Knurpht]

Try the version(s) from the network:chromium repo, they work perfectly.

[wakou]

Thanks Knurpht, I did that.. (I think!) but it is still the same...
Here is about:version

Chromium
25.0.1352.0 (Developer Build 171464)

OS
Linux

WebKit
537.21 (Unknown URL@0)

JavaScript
V8 3.15.8

Flash
11.2 r202

User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.21 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1352.0 Safari/537.21 SUSE/25.0.1352.0

Command Line
/usr/lib64/chromium/chromium --no-sandbox --password-store=kwallet --flag-switches-begin --enable-autologin --show-autofill-type-predictions --flag-switches-end

Executable Path
/usr/lib64/chromium/chromium

Profile Path
/home/stephen/.config/chromium/Default

[nrickert]

Thanks guys, but:

'chromium-suid-helper' is already installed.

Maybe uninstall it, and then install it again. Somehow that file (it seems to be the only file in "chromium-suid-helper") has gone missing.

[wakou]

I thought I had solved this, but it is back. I did a complete uninstall, and re-installed from the chromium repo. Any ideas anyone? Or other forums/resources?

[Knurpht]

I thought I had solved this, but it is back. I did a complete uninstall, and re-installed from the chromium repo. Any ideas anyone? Or other forums/resources?

openSUSE version?

Uninstalling/Reinstalling is (in by far most of the times) not the way to go.

Please post output of

zypper lr -d

and

rpm -qa | grep chromium

[wakou]

Hi Knurpht, I was following the advice offered by nrickert in the post above yours.
Here is zypper lr -d :~> zypper lr -d # | Alias | Name - Pastebin.com

And :

~> rpm -qa |grep chromiumchromium-desktop-kde-26.0.1403.0-348.1.x86_64
chromium-ffmpeg-26.0.1393.0-100.1.x86_64
chromium-suid-helper-26.0.1403.0-348.1.x86_64
chromium-26.0.1403.0-348.1.x86_64