`awrit` will not run on Ubuntu 24.04 due to new AppArmor defaults

[Maverobot]

Nothing is shown after running awrit. Not sure what is wrong here.

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Kitty: 0.42.2

[pallymore]

Same issue here -

Kitty: 0.42.1
OS: macOS Sequoia 15.6 arm64

[chase]

Nothing is shown after running writ. Not sure what is wrong here.

OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Kitty: 0.42.2

Please provide the contents of: cat ~/awrit/awrit_error.txt

[chase]

Same issue here -

Kitty: 0.42.1 OS: macOS Sequoia 15.6 arm64

I'm afraid I cannot reproduce this in the same environment with a fresh install. How did you install awrit?

[pallymore]

Same issue here -
Kitty: 0.42.1 OS: macOS Sequoia 15.6 arm64

I'm afraid I cannot reproduce this in the same environment with a fresh install. How did you install awrit?

fresh install w/ curl -fsS https://chase.github.io/awrit/get | bash

I use fish shell - maybe that's why?

this is in my error log:

12 |     return path.join(process.env.ELECTRON_OVERRIDE_DIST_PATH, executablePath || 'electron');
13 |   }
14 |   if (executablePath) {
15 |     return path.join(__dirname, 'dist', executablePath);
16 |   } else {
17 |     throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again');
               ^
error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
      at getElectronPath (/Users/yrzhang/awrit/node_modules/electron/index.js:17:11)
      at <anonymous> (/Users/yrzhang/awrit/node_modules/electron/index.js:21:18)

let me try to install again.

[pallymore]

tried in both fish and zsh it's just giving me these

[chase]

tried in both fish and zsh it's just giving me these

Have you checked the error log to see if there's anything new?

What you're seeing is the response for the theme values from Kitty, but shortly after it should be showing something.

[Maverobot]

Nothing is shown after running writ. Not sure what is wrong here.
OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Kitty: 0.42.2

Please provide the contents of: cat ~/awrit/awrit_error.txt

❯ cat ~/awrit/awrit_error.txt
[6010:0816/091200.595868:FATAL:sandbox/linux/suid/client/setuid_sandbox_host.cc:169] 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/zheng/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

[chase]

❯ cat ~/awrit/awrit_error.txt
[6010:0816/091200.595868:FATAL:sandbox/linux/suid/client/setuid_sandbox_host.cc:169] 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/zheng/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

Can you check that the owner and permissions of ~/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox are correct?

ls -l ~/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox

[Maverobot]

Yes. The ownership seems to be wrong:

❯ ls -la /home/zheng/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zheng zheng 48256 Aug 15 21:58 /home/zheng/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox*

I changed the ownership and permissions:

❯ sudo chown root /home/zheng/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox

~
❯ sudo chmod 4755 /home/zheng/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox

and then:

~
❯ ls -l ~/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root zheng 48256 Aug 15 21:58 /home/zheng/awrit/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox*

However, the awrit gets stuck in a blank screen after being executed.

[chase]

However, the awrit gets stuck in a blank screen after being executed.

Does the error log say anything different now?

[Maverobot]

However, the awrit gets stuck in a blank screen after being executed.

Does the error log say anything different now?

It is different now but it looks quite normal...

❯ cat ~/awrit/awrit_error.txt
size { cols: 114, rows: 55, width: 1824, height: 1980 }

[chase]

❯ cat ~/awrit/awrit_error.txt
size { cols: 114, rows: 55, width: 1824, height: 1980 }

That's pretty odd.

Can you provide the output from kitty? kitty --debug-rendering awrit

[Maverobot]

❯ cat ~/awrit/awrit_error.txt
size { cols: 114, rows: 55, width: 1824, height: 1980 }

That's pretty odd.

Can you provide the output from kitty? kitty --debug-rendering awrit

Thanks for the quick reply. Here it is:

❯ kitty --debug-rendering awrit
[0.051] Ignoring unknown config key: open_url_modifiers
[0.053] Cannot use both macos_titlebar_color and background_opacity
[0.169] Creating window with geometry: 640x480@0x0
[0.181] Creating window with geometry: 640x400@0x0
[0.185] GL version string: '4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 25.0.7-0ubuntu0.24.04.1' Detected version: 4.6
[0.272] OS Window created
[0.288] Child launched
[0.324] Window resized to: 1876 2058 from: 640 400
[0.325] Window moved to: 1936 28 from: 0 0
[0.343] [glfw error 65544]: process_desktop_settings: failed with error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Settings” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
[0.344] Got notification server capabilities: frozenset({'actions', 'x-dunst-stack-tag', 'private-synchronous', 'synchronous', 'icon-static', 'body-markup', 'x-canonical-private-synchronous', 'body-hyperlinks', 'body'})
[1.109] [PARSE ERROR] Ignoring attempt to turn on/off C1 controls as we only support C0 controls