running vscode with gksudo or sudo permission #3068

ayanb1991 · 2016-02-17T03:33:10Z

visual studio not starting up when running it with gksudo or sudo permission on my Arch Linux. The window just got hanged every time. Starting normally works.

Can not save a file whose owner is root, Gives EACCESS_PERMISSION error. In case of other editors, saving the same file invoking gksudo automatically.

Tyriar · 2016-02-17T15:10:20Z

Repros on Ubuntu. Setup:

touch test
sudo chown root test
sudo ~/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code .

Output:

~/temp
❯ sudo ~/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code .
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell
[VS Code]: detected unresponsive

Process stats:

❯ ps aux | grep VSCode
root      2485  0.0  0.0  58860  3976 pts/0    S+   07:03   0:00 sudo /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code .
root      2486 15.6  0.6 1353480 113552 pts/0  Sl+  07:03   0:22 /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code .
root      2488  0.0  0.1 320284 28052 pts/0    S+   07:03   0:00 /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code --type=zygote --no-sandbox
root      2504  0.5  0.6 459360 105128 pts/0   Sl+  07:03   0:00 /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code --type=gpu-process --channel=2486.0.602618759 --no-sandbox --supports-dual-gpus=false --gpu-driver-bug-workarounds=2,27,30,45,55,57 --disable-accelerated-video-decode --gpu-vendor-id=0x10de --gpu-device-id=0x1187 --gpu-driver-vendor=NVIDIA --gpu-driver-version=352.63 --v8-natives-passed-by-fd --v8-snapshot-passed-by-fd
root      2550  0.1  0.2 916508 46500 pts/0    Sl+  07:03   0:00 /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/resources/app/out/bootstrap --type=SharedProcess
root      2562  105  2.9 2609236 485880 pts/0  Rl+  07:03   2:32 /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code --type=renderer --no-sandbox --lang=en-US --node-integration=true --enable-delegated-renderer --num-raster-threads=2 --gpu-rasterization-msaa-sample-count=8 --content-image-texture-target=3553 --video-image-texture-target=3553 --disable-accelerated-video-decode --channel=2486.1.575172126 --v8-natives-passed-by-fd --v8-snapshot-passed-by-fd
root      2586 58.2  0.5 959572 93820 pts/0    Sl+  07:03   1:23 /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/resources/app/out/bootstrap --type=pluginHost
root      2587  0.1  0.3 912380 49384 pts/0    Sl+  07:03   0:00 /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/Code /home/daniel/tools/VSCode-linux-x64/resources/app/out/bootstrap --type=watcherService
daniel    2824  0.0  0.0  13692  2220 pts/11   R+   07:06   0:00 grep --color=auto VSCode

Tyriar · 2016-02-18T03:03:38Z

Related issue: #1614
Related user voice feature request: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studio-code/suggestions/8915236-visual-code-w-terminal-integrated-and-super-admin

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T03:08:58Z

A system error occured (EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/daniel/.config/Code/User/snippets'): Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/daniel/.config/Code/User/snippets'
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:799:18)
    at new SnippetsTracker (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/workbench/parts/snippets/electron-browser/snippetsTracker.js:25:20)
    at create (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/base/common/types.js:150:14)
    at file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.js:193:45
    at AccessLock.runUnlocked (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.js:31:24)
    at ServicesMap.createInstance (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.js:192:31)
    at InstantiationService.createInstance (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.js:243:42)
    at WorkbenchContributionsRegistry.BaseRegistry.instantiate (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/platform.js:42:54)
    at WorkbenchContributionsRegistry.BaseRegistry.setInstantiationService (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/platform.js:38:22)Workbench.startup @ //home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/workbench/browser/workbench.js:145
index.html:26 [uncaught exception]: Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/daniel/.config/Code/User/snippets'onError @ index.html:26
index.html:29 Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/daniel/.config/Code/User/snippets'
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:799:18)
    at new SnippetsTracker (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/workbench/parts/snippets/electron-browser/snippetsTracker.js:25:20)
    at create (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/base/common/types.js:150:14)
    at file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.js:193:45
    at AccessLock.runUnlocked (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.js:31:24)
    at ServicesMap.createInstance (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.js:192:31)
    at InstantiationService.createInstance (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/instantiation/common/instantiationService.js:243:42)
    at WorkbenchContributionsRegistry.BaseRegistry.instantiate (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/platform.js:42:54)
    at WorkbenchContributionsRegistry.BaseRegistry.setInstantiationService (file:////home/daniel/dev/Microsoft/vscode/out/vs/platform/platform.js:38:22)

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T03:25:59Z

The EACCES errors can be fixed by tweaking permissions since .config is normally only 700: chmod 775 .config/

Once that's passed, vscode load and, gives a warning about how you shouldn't run as root. Only files owned by root can be modified in this instance of vscode.

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T03:30:04Z

When gksudo google-chrome is run this is presented:

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T03:32:55Z

This works with Chrome:

sudo mkdir /home/data/chrome-data
gksudo "google-chrome --user-data-dir=/home/daniel/chrome-data"

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T03:37:22Z

The whole thing is pretty messy after understanding it, it would be better to request sudo acces when a file is saved. Something like this might work? https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-sudo

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T19:52:48Z

I've managed to get it working fairly nicely being run with sudo using a custom user data dir, however it hangs unless run as the normal user at least once.

This is how it I can get around it currently:

# First launch, code will create the data dir then hang with no errors in console
sudo ../VSCode-linux-x64/code-oss --user-data-dir=/home/daniel/data-dir .
# Give daniel access to ~/data-dir
sudo chmod -R 777 /home/daniel/data-dir/
# Launches fine as regular user now
../VSCode-linux-x64/code-oss --user-data-dir=/home/daniel/data-dir .
# Remove daniel access
sudo chmod -R 700 /home/daniel/data-dir/
# Launches fine as root user now
sudo ../VSCode-linux-x64/code-oss --user-data-dir=/home/daniel/data-dir .

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T21:13:10Z

All files seem to be created correctly.

$ sudo tree ~/data-dir/
/home/daniel/data-dir/
├── DevTools Extensions
├── GPUCache
│   ├── data_0
│   ├── data_1
│   ├── data_2
│   ├── data_3
│   └── index
├── Local Storage
│   ├── file__0.localstorage
│   └── file__0.localstorage-journal
├── storage.json
└── User
    └── snippets

The welcome page never comes up though, and the menu bar hangs when I try to open the license.

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T23:14:06Z

Related: electron/electron#1348 electron/electron#4916

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T23:19:05Z

The issue is with xdg-open, notice how the non-sudo call exits with 0 but the sudo call errors and hangs.

~
❯ xdg-open http://www.google.com

~
❯ Created new window in existing browser session.
echo $?
0

~
❯ sudo xdg-open http://www.google.com
[0406/161820:ERROR:nss_util.cc(98)] Failed to create /home/daniel/.pki/nssdb directory.

Tyriar · 2016-04-06T23:28:26Z

http://linux.die.net/man/1/xdg-open

xdg-open is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not recommended to use xdg-open as root.

This commit adds the --user-data-dir argument which allows a custom data dir for Chromium's user data. This is useful when running as root on Linux since the root user does not have read or write permissions for the ~/.config/Code dir. Part of #3068

Ideally this is a temporary fix for gettingStarted and can be removed once the freeze is fixed in electron. Fixes #3068 Fixes #5067

ricardomaleixo · 2017-10-04T20:55:06Z

this is the solution to me.

access terminal with root and ...

code --user-data-dir="./vscode-root"

ubuntu 16.04

flw.vlw

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