Electron does not work from a window on Windows bash

Question

I am launching an Electron quick start project. I work on Windows 10 running bash (the Ubuntu shell that ships with the OS).

Initially, there were some problems with npm and libasound2 , libnss3-dev , libgconf-2-4 , libxss1 and libxtst6 to fix them.

Finally stopped receiving npm errors, but then got it, and I got stuck:

 /electron-quick-start$ npm start > electron-quick-start@1.0.0 start .../electron-quick-start > electron . [1117:1121/213915:FATAL:render_sandbox_host_linux.cc(40)] Check failed: 0 == shutdown(renderer_socket_, SHUT_RD). shutdown: Invalid argument #0 0x000001e5468e <unknown> #1 0x000001e6a38b <unknown> #2 0x000001e6a94d <unknown> #3 0x00000292cea2 <unknown> #4 0x0000026f5d75 <unknown> #5 0x0000026fc0df <unknown> #6 0x0000026f5506 <unknown> #7 0x00000121e5b7 <unknown> #8 0x00000121d090 <unknown> #9 0x000003475763 main #10 0x7f43248a1ec5 __libc_start_main #11 0x000000575dc9 <unknown> 

Any tips?

Answer 1

This particular issue has been resolved in Windows Insider builds, but others still remain, which prevents Electron from working in WSL.

Answer 2

You can work around this problem (and the missing libraries you mentioned) by first installing Electron from Windows before executing it from bash.

I wrote some details on this GitHub issue: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-prebuilt/issues/260