Ubuntu install orphaned path

[emanuel4you]

... Setting up balena-etcher-electron (1.5.117) ... chmod: cannot access '/opt/balena-etcher-electron/chrome-sandbox': No such file or directory

[kb2ma]

Yes, the postinst file is out of sync with the filesystem.

kbee@system76:~/tmp/etcher/control$ cat postinst
#!/bin/bash

# Link to the binary
ln -sf '/opt/balena-etcher-electron/balena-etcher-electron' '/usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron'

# SUID chrome-sandbox for Electron 5+
chmod 4755 '/opt/balena-etcher-electron/chrome-sandbox' || true

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime || true
update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications || true

[lurch]

@thundron I'm also seeing this same error after following the instructions in #3051 (I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS)

Need to get 86.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4,291 kB disk space will be freed.
Get:1 https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/balena/etcher/deb/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 balena-etcher-electron amd64 1.5.117 [86.8 MB]
Fetched 86.8 MB in 7s (12.3 MB/s)                                              
(Reading database ... 589767 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../balena-etcher-electron_1.5.117_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking balena-etcher-electron (1.5.117) over (1.5.100) ...
Setting up balena-etcher-electron (1.5.117) ...
chmod: cannot access '/opt/balena-etcher-electron/chrome-sandbox': No such file or directory
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...

However if I ls /opt I see that there is a /opt/balenaEtcher directory? And

$ ls -l /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 May  3 08:10 /usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron -> /opt/balena-etcher-electron/balena-etcher-electron

is a broken symlink :confused:

[M3LiNdRu]

It looks like there is something wrong with the path. Following commands provided by @kb2ma above using /opt/balenaEtcheras directory works properly:

# Link to the binary
ln -sf '/opt/balenaEtcher/balena-etcher-electron' '/usr/bin/balena-etcher-electron'

# SUID chrome-sandbox for Electron 5+
chmod 4755 '/opt/balenaEtcher/chrome-sandbox' || true

update-mime-database /usr/share/mime || true
update-desktop-database /usr/share/applications || true

I guess this path is build using some sort of convention and the convention is broken.

@lurch @kb2ma Would you mind if I create a PR to solve this?

[lurch]

No need to ask my permission! I don't work on this project, I'm just an "interested 3rd party" :wink:

[M3LiNdRu]

duplicated issue: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3074

fix: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/commit/d8cb8f78154910f46b70f4b2537d57169b1a0b60

[lurch]

duplicated issue: #3074

Seems strange that a bug apparently fixed in Feb 2020 would still be affecting Etcher in May 2021? :confused: :man_shrugging:

[valdominic]

Is this issue fixed?

[M3LiNdRu]

Is this issue fixed?

It looks like the fix was released. However, .deb package still have the issue, so not sure what release is packaged inside the current .deb package.

@valdominic following the above steps provided by @kb2ma should fix the issue in my Debian

[lurch]

@M3LiNdRu I've just taken a look at the issue you linked to, and I think that's a similar-but-different error. #3074 seems to be about a bug in the script used to start Etcher, whereas this issue is about a bug in the package used to install Etcher?

[valdominic]

Is this issue fixed?

It looks like the fix was released. However, .deb package still have the issue, so not sure what release is packaged inside the current .deb package.

@valdominic following the above steps provided by @kb2ma should fix the issue in my Debian

@M3LiNdRu , when i try to run the fix that @kb2ma has provided above, it gives me an error

Here is the error

bash: /home/debianbox/tmp/etcher/control$: No such file or directory

[Eratosthenes]

I'm having this issue as well FYI.

[KernelDeimos]

How is this still broken?

[cerosilva]

Not sure, but i just tried uninstalling and reinstalling it again and still have getting the same 'chmod: cannot access '/opt/balena-etcher-electron/chrome-sandbox': No such file or directory' error.

Could this be the reason why my bootable USB is not working at boot time? It's showing up in explorer and i can work with the files. but it's not booting up my system with the loaded Distro.

[theofficialgman]

bumping this because the control file is STILL broken

scriptPath here is set incorrectly https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/blob/master/afterPack.js

[do-nat]

I just tried to install the apt package and this issue is still occuring. Is nobody working on this?

[M3LiNdRu]

I just tried to install the apt package and this issue is still occuring. Is nobody working on this?

@do-nat What linux distribution are you using?

FYI, not reproduced on Debian 11

[do-nat]

@M3LiNdRu I'm using PopOS, which is an Ubuntu derivate

[suparious]

I just got this issue on a default install of Ubuntu 22.10

chmod: cannot access '/opt/balena-etcher-electron/chrome-sandbox': No such file or directory

It seems the actual folder is /opt/balenaEtcher/ and not ls -la /opt/balena-etcher-electron/

ls -la /opt/balenaEtcher/:

balena-etcher-electron.bin
chrome_100_percent.pak
chrome_200_percent.pak
chrome-sandbox
icudtl.dat
libEGL.so
libffmpeg.so
libGLESv2.so
libvk_swiftshader.so
libvulkan.so.1
LICENSE.electron.txt
LICENSES.chromium.html
locales
resources
resources.pak
snapshot_blob.bin
swiftshader
v8_context_snapshot.bin
vk_swiftshader_icd.json