Error: Failed to launch the browser process!

[mgiacomo72]

Hi, I installed you plugin but after configuration an error in homebridge status page is shown:

[9/15/2020, 7:47:24 PM] [website-camera] Starting new instance of Chromium: /usr/bin/chromium-browser [9/15/2020, 7:47:24 PM] [website-camera] Error: Failed to launch the browser process! cannot read mount namespace identifier of pid 1: Permission denied

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

at onClose (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-website-to-camera/node_modules/puppeteer-core/lib/Launcher.js:615:20)
at Interface.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/homebridge-website-to-camera/node_modules/puppeteer-core/lib/Launcher.js:605:56)
at Interface.emit (events.js:327:22)
at Interface.close (readline.js:416:8)
at Socket.onend (readline.js:194:10)
at Socket.emit (events.js:327:22)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:1220:12)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)

I use Ubuntu Linux distribution and "Lubuntu" interface, this is my config in homebridge:

   {
        "platform": "website-camera",
        "cameras": [
            {
                "name": "Test",
                "url": "https://github.com",
                "height": 400,
                "width": 400,
                "chromiumPath": "/usr/bin/chromium-browser"
            }
        ]
    }

can you heal me to understand how solve the situation?

Thanks in advance

Best regards Giacomo

[mgiacomo72]

To complete my issue, chromium-browser opens correctly from the command line terminal in the desktop environment.

[werthdavid]

Are you running homebridge with a different user?

[mgiacomo72]

Hi David,

I use an ubuntu distribution with LXQT as my desktop environment. The desktop LQT environment LXQT automatically login in with user “homebridge”.

From the desktop environment opening a terminal window, the program "/usr/bin/chromium-browser” opens correctly.

Opening the Homebridge terminal from the web interface, I have the same user “homebridge”, you can see the attached image:

So I think that everything is running with the same user… Do you have any idea what else i can check?

Thanks in advance

Best regards Giacomo

Il giorno 17 nov 2020, alle ore 10:38, David Werth notifications@github.com ha scritto:

Are you running homebridge with a different user?

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[WattageGuy]

Any solution? Same problem.

[werthdavid]

@WattageGuy do you have the same error with "permission denied"?