Joplin doesn't start

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Hi,

I've installed Joplin 2.8.8 on my laptop runned by Debian 9, using the recommended method (with a command line).

The app seems to be installed, the icon is in the application panel… but when I click on it nothing happens at all. I don't have any error messages, just nothing.

I've tried reinstalling the app, but the installer told me "Joplin 2.8.8 already installed".

Can you help me? Thanks in advance!

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What happens if you run the appimage directly via the terminal? Assuming you don't have some kind of appimage integration tool like appimage launcher then it should be in `~/.joplin'.

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I'm not a Linux expert, but I went to the directory and tried this command line:

./Joplin.AppImage

I got this answer:

[7902:0730/084638.549079: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_JoplinDXVWsG/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

I've also tried the same command as superuser, and here is what I got:

[[0730/084710.981683:FATAL:electron_main_delegate.cc(297)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.

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Try running with --no-sandbox. I think it is needed for older Debian versions.

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It worked! First, I got this:

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 100: unknown element "blank" xdg-settings: invalid application name Try 'xdg-settings --help' for more information. [5667:0730/133613.148408:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process. (node:5624) electron: The default of nativeWindowOpen is deprecated and will be changing from false to true in Electron 15. See https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/28511 for more information. (Use @ joplinapp-desktop --trace-warnings ... to show where the warning was created)

And then, a few seconds later, Joplin started. Thank you!

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