Also having the same issue as 99linesofcode (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/visual-studio-code-bin#comment-942412)
/opt/visual-studio-code/chrome-sandbox
has 0755 perms but requires 4755 perms or vscode silently fails to open. AFAIK this only affects those with the kernel flag unprivileged_userns_clone = 0
set for security hardening, but can be remediated by the correct file permissions set.
Ofc, until this is fixed in packaging/upstream, updates will overwrite chrome-sandbox
and reset its perms. In the interim, the following, placed in /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
, offers a workaround:
# /etc/pacman.d/hooks/60-visual-studio-code-bin.hook
[Trigger]
Operation = Install
Operation = Upgrade
Type = Path
Target = opt/visual-studio-code/chrome-sandbox
[Action]
Description = "Fixing file permissions on /opt/visual-studio-code/chrome-sandbox"
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/chmod 4755 /opt/visual-studio-code/chrome-sandbox
NB, the lack of /
before opt
in Target =
isn't a typo.
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dcelasun commented on 2017-11-15 06:20 (UTC) (edited on 2020-02-06 21:33 (UTC) by dcelasun)
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uses vscode, not my file manager! How do I fix this?Install shared-mime-info-gnome. Also see this reddit thread.
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