Caprine: the snap version won't open

[zany130]

Ubuntu 18.04 kernal 4.19.36

snap won't open trying to open form the terminal gives me this
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 /snap/caprine/22/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
I have tried Uninstalling and reinstalling

[malyzeli]

Problem occurs only with latest Caprine version 2.31.0.

Please update issue title accordingly (include version number) for better clarity.

To keep Caprine working you can rollback to previous version 2.30 using snap revert until issue is resolved.

> snap revert caprine
caprine reverted to 2.30.2

[boriseto]

He tried uninstalling and reinstalling again. I don't think that the "revert" command would help him since there is nothing to revert to now.

You can go to releases and download the 2.30.2 snap version.

[malyzeli]

Yay, good point!
In that case downloading compiled release should work..
Btw is there any way to install specific version using snap CLI?

[boriseto]

Yes. Download the snap locally and then "snap install filename - - dangerous"

[weirdbricks]

Hello,

I am seeing the same issue with 2.31.0 on Ubuntu 18:

Output:

$ caprine 
[24620:0429/082256.665293: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 /snap/caprine/22/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Running with sudo gave me a different message:

sudo caprine 
[sudo] password for lamprosc: 
mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Documents': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Desktop': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Downloads': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Music': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Pictures': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Videos': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Public': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Templates': No such file or directory

Snap version:

snap list
Name               Version                     Rev   Tracking  Publisher        Notes
caprine            2.31.0                      22    stable    sindresorhus     -

Ubuntu version:

cat /etc/issue.net 
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

I reverted back to the previous version by using:

sudo snap revert caprine
caprine reverted to 2.30.2

and caprine works again. Please let me know if there's any further details I can provide.

[vanushwashere]

Same error on Ubuntu-based Kde Neon distro
Reinstalled manually as @boriseto suggested

[skiwichu]

Same issue on Ubuntu 19.04

[linuxxxer]

error: cannot revert "caprine": no revision to revert to
I tried to revert Caprine on Linux Mint 19.1, apparently this error I got

[sloika]

I also cannot revert it, so I downloaded the previous version (2.30.2). It works well so far.

[linuxxxer]

I installed the previous version too, works good, only icon is missing, but it doesn't matter for me.

[xaviervilla]

16.04 affected as well.

as malyzeli stated above, snap revert caprine fixed the issue immediately :+1:

[p3x-robot]

do you guys if it works with 5.0.2?

[ztangent]

Seems like it's fine with the latest Caprine update! (Version, 2.31.1, installed using the .deb version, haven't tried through Snap.)

[yerbestpal]

@ztangent this issue is related to the snap build only.

[p3x-robot]

if there is an appimage, same issue

[inoculos]

Hello,

I am seeing the same issue with 2.31.0 on Ubuntu 18:

Output:

$ caprine 
[24620:0429/082256.665293: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 /snap/caprine/22/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

Running with sudo gave me a different message:

sudo caprine 
[sudo] password for lamprosc: 
mkdir: cannot create directory '/run/user/0': Permission denied
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Documents': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Desktop': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Downloads': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Music': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Pictures': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Videos': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Public': No such file or directory
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/root/snap/caprine/22/snap/caprine/22/Templates': No such file or directory

Seems off those files are in /Root. Would chown allow them to load? I am curious if thats is were they install in working versions.

[sindresorhus]

There's a new version out. Can you check if that works better?

[hhsnopek]

@sindresorhus it's now working on Ubuntu 18.04.2, kernel 4.15.0-1043, snap version 2.39

thank you for the release 🎉

[sindresorhus]

Great!

[Slapbox]

@sindresorhus can you describe how you resolved this?