Run whatsapp-web.js on UBUNTU 20.04 no GUI

[myhardez]

Hi sir

I will ask sir , i try run this on UBUNTU 20.04 no GUI but have error Can I run this on UBUNTU 20.04 no GUI ?

error log

root@wa-server:/whatsapp-api# npm run start

whatsapp-api@1.0.0 start /whatsapp-api node app.js

(node:15485) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Failed to launch the browser process! [0109/091009.834081:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(90)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180.

TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md

at onClose (/whatsapp-api/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:193:20)
at Interface.helper_js_1.helper.addEventListener (/whatsapp-api/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:183:68)
at Interface.emit (events.js:203:15)
at Interface.close (readline.js:397:8)
at Socket.onend (readline.js:173:10)
at Socket.emit (events.js:203:15)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1145:12)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)

(node:15485) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1) (node:15485) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code. root@wa-server:/whatsapp-api# node --version v10.19.0 root@wa-server:/whatsapp-api#

[mbilgidhis]

Short answer is yes, you can run on Ubuntu 20.04 with no GUI. I run it with no problems at all. And make sure you had already installed the dependencies mentioned on this link. Take a look at Debian section.

From your log, it seems you run with root user, have you tried using non-root user?

[myhardez]

thank you sir

[victormga]

this is puppeteer/chromium related. to solve it, you need to read about how to enable chromium sandbox on your OS, or run it without sandbox using root.

[rmaafs]

thank you sir

How to solve this?

[glbatistabh]

solution: puppeteer: {headless: true}

        let client = new Client({
          session: session,
          //qrTimeoutMs: 120000,
          //authTimeoutMs: 120000,
          //restartOnAuthFail: true,
          //takeoverOnConflict: true
          //takeoverTimeoutMs: 5000
          puppeteer: {headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox', '--disable-extensions']}
        });

[ameybh]

Simple boilerplate for only terminal instance: ameybhavsar24/ww-bot/index.js

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[myhardez]

const client = new Client({ restartOnAuthFail: true, puppeteer: { headless: true, args: [ '--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox', ], }, session: sessionCfg });

I try again, but have error please help me

[i9team]

Insira essa linha em seu args: '--disable-extensions'

Além disso, você precisa instalar o chromium em seu servidor:

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb 
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb 
sudo apt-get install -f 

Depois de ter instalado o chromium, você precisa habilita-lo: node node_modules/puppeteer/install.js

Lembre-se que você deve fazer esses passos em sua pasta do projeto onde está rodando o wpp

[Lepist]

Hi guys, can you show your dockerfile with whatsapp-web.js. I have troubles with running application on Ubuntu. Its well work on windows but on Ubuntu doesn't work properly. I saw 2 errors with running whatsapp-web.js on linux: 1) Error: Failed to launch the browser process! /node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-982053/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2) ERR_CONNECTION... web.whatsapp.com (application don't send QR in a few minutes and than send error)

[BalikLayarID]

solution: puppeteer: {headless: true}

        let client = new Client({
          session: session,
          //qrTimeoutMs: 120000,
          //authTimeoutMs: 120000,
          //restartOnAuthFail: true,
          //takeoverOnConflict: true
          //takeoverTimeoutMs: 5000
          puppeteer: {headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox', '--disable-extensions']}
        });

This solution work for me on Debian Linux 10... if still not work, try install dependencies based on https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md#chrome-headless-doesnt-launch-on-unix

[SannanOfficial]

@i9team Yours is the only solution that works here for me, thanks!

[SannanOfficial]

Well, really a combination of all options work 😜

    puppeteer: {
      headless: true,
      ignoreHTTPSErrors: true,
      args: [
        "--no-sandbox",
        "--disable-setuid-sandbox",
        "--disable-extensions",
      ],
    },

[Jossymolina]

Hello, The error no longer appears but now the result does not appear. It just goes black and I don't know what's happening.