run chrome 30 without sandbox

Question

I'm trying to run chrome 30, in Linux, from the command line (executing google-chrome file of the version downloaded and unpacked in a folder).

If i run it without the option --no-sandbox the result is the following

[24419:24419:1016/012228:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(142)] 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/user/user.browsers/chrome-30/opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755. ./chrome-30.sh: line 5: 24419 Aborted (core dumped) $CHROME_FOLDER/google-chrome

If I run it with the option --no-sandbox, following also this procedure to configure it, the result is the error:

È stata creata una nuova finestra nella sessione corrente del browser.
[1016/012454:ERROR:nacl_helper_linux.cc(269)] NaCl helper process running without a sandbox!
Most likely you need to configure your SUID sandbox correctly

This last procedure works fine with chrome v31. Any help?

Solution

If you have root access, you should set up the SUID sandbox as per these instructions, and run without the --no-sandbox option.

If you don't have root access, you cannot set up a SUID sandbox and you have to use the --no-sandbox option, but only use it for testing because it is a security risk. In your case, it looks like you tried running a new Chrome window with --no-sandbox while another session was already running (that's what the message in Italian says). Try closing the existing session before starting a new one. To close the existing session, find the Chrome icon in the system tray, right click it and choose Exit. If you don't see the system tray icon, you can also try killall google-chrome or killall chromium, depending on which version you're using.