Electron-forge issue: running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported

[randyb100]

Hi all,

I'm having an issue getting this to work. I tried editing the package.json file to add in the --no-sandbox argument, but it only works if I change it to say "yarn --no-sandbox." Then it doesn't load the package at all.

This is on Linux if that matters any. I am not using the Docker version.

It does link me to https://crbug.com/638180 and appears to be a Chromium issue. I simply don't know where to add in the --no-sandbox argument in the code! Can anyone help?

[Mathboss42]

Hi, late to the party, so I'm pretty sure you've figured something out since, but leaving this reply here in case it helps somebody else.

I am running an electron project with electron-forge inside a node:22 Docker container on WSL2.

I've been having issues with the same argument while trying to run the electron-forge start command (through npm run start). I tried a bunch of things such as adding the -- --no-sandbox arguments directly to the command in the package.json or in the command line, or using app.commandLine.appendSwitch('--no-sandbox'), or adding the argument to the startElectronArgs array in forge.config, but to no avail, I kept getting the same "running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported" error on startup.

The thing that ended up working for me was setting the environment variable DISABLE_ELECTRON_SANDBOX to 1. Not exactly sure yet why the other methods didn't work, but thought I would leave this here for someone else to find in case it helped.

Have a good one.