nRF Connect for Desktop fails to start on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - sandbox problem

[John Connett]

nRF Connect for Desktop v4.4.1 fails to start on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat):

jrc@topaz:~$ nrfconnect
[4545:0427/112620.803915:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] 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 /tmp/.mount_nrfconxClxF6/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
jrc@topaz:~

Workaround is to use "--no-sandbox"

This is on a clean install of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) with relatively few additional packages

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

Hi,

jrc@topaz:~$ nrfconnect

What did you do with the appimage before this?

Regards,
Sigurd Hellesvik

[John Connett]

Downloaded nrfconnect-4.4.1-x86_64.appimage and chmod 0755.

Somehow the filename was changed to nrfconnect361x8664.AppImage. The contents are identical.

[Sigurd Hellesvik]

We do not support Ubuntu 24.04 yet.

For now, I suggest that you use the workaround you described