Travis build failing on "The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but..."

Question

My Angular app tests are passing locally, however they are failing on travis with the following error:

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 /opt/google/chrome/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.

Answer 1

I solve the issue by editing my karma.conf.js file and adding the following object to my customLaunchers:

ChromeHeadlessNoSandbox: {
  base: 'ChromeHeadless',
  flags: ['--no-sandbox']
}

so my karma.conf.js looks like the following:

module.exports = function (config) {
  config.set({
    // other parameters...
    browsers                : [
      'ChromeHeadlessNoSandbox'
       // other browsers (if any)
    ],
    customLaunchers: {
      ChromeHeadlessNoSandbox: {
        base: 'ChromeHeadless',
        flags: ['--no-sandbox']
      }
      // other browsers (if any)
    },
  });
};

then I run my test with --browser=ChromeHeadlessNoSandbox