Troubleshooting

Permissions and sandbox issues during installation or running Umami Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04

Those using Ubuntu 24 may encounter problems when starting or installing an application like The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. To solve this problem, you need to use this workaround.

The temporary solution is disabling the kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns:

sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/41066#issuecomment-1913509942

The electron team is working on this to fix it in future electron updates, so as soon as we have a new electron version, we will update Umami Desktop.