How to fix EasyEDA Pro on Linux: The SUID sandbox helper binary was found ...

Problem

When starting EasyEDA pro on Linux, it doesn’t start up and terminates with the following error message:

[384694:0217/215920.963708:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /home/user/easyeda-pro/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

Solution

As the error message suggests, the folder chrome-sandbox in the EasyEDA Pro installation directory needs to be owned by root and have the setuid bit set. You can fix this by running the following command in a terminal:

Don’t forget to replace the directory in the command with the actual path to your EasyEDA Pro installation! (copy & paste it from the error message)

sudo chown -R root:root /home/user/easyeda-pro/chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod -R 4755 /home/user/easyeda-pro/chrome-sandbox