Bitwarden's appimage fails to run

[philotux]

Did you try the flatpak? I'm interested in seeing whether that works for you.

No, I didn't. If I understand flatpaks correctly, they need quite big downloads (as well as installed size on disk) of runtimes which can amount to some GBs only for installing an application which is not more that some MBs. But of course next time you install an application which runs on the same runtime the download size is "normal". So I have been avoiding them but if I decide to install Bitwarden's after all, I'll surely let you know how it works.

I wanted to try the appimage since it won't install on the system and runs like a portable app. Bitwarden has a .deb as well, I might give that a try.

[manyroads]

Did you try the flatpak? I'm interested in seeing whether that works for you.

No, I didn't. If I understand flatpaks correctly, they need quite big downloads (as well as installed size on disk) of runtimes which can amount to some GBs only for installing an application which is not more that some MBs. But of course next time you install an application which runs on the same runtime the download size is "normal". So I have been avoiding them but if I decide to install Bitwarden's after all, I'll surely let you know how it works.

I wanted to try the appimage since it won't install on the system and runs like a portable app. Bitwarden has a .deb as well, I might give that a try.

Are you even sure that Bitwarden is worth the effort? I found it to be nowhere near as good as Keepassx and LastPass. But that's me....

[philotux]

Are you even sure that Bitwarden is worth the effort? I found it to be nowhere near as good as Keepassx and LastPass. But that's me....

No, not sure at all.
I was just being curious to see how their Linux app works (looks like). I am leaning toward giving up the idea all together now. I am actually quite happy with KeePassXC and it's browser integration.

[Stevo]

Both the appimage and their deb version start up on my system, but I have tons of stuff installed for testing packages that I build.

Maybe it would work if you installed nodejs from backports or the testing repo, though.

[philotux]

Maybe it would work if you installed nodejs from backports or the testing repo, though.

Installed the test and then the backports versions of nodejs. Bitwarden's appimage won't still start on my system. Running it from the terminal, I get the same error messages as posted before. Dubble clicking on it in thunar, nothing happens. However in both cases, looking at the processes in gnome-system-monitor, I can see some "sleeping" Bitwarden processes and no graphical presence on the screen.

[ghostdawg]

I haven't tried any of the apps, flatpak, appimage etc...but I do run Bitwarden's AddOn with Firefox. I haven't seen any issues, it works for me!

[chris1302s]

I've just been trialling MX Linux 19 and also struggled to run the Bitwarden appimage. I've discovered that if you run the appimage file with the --no-sandbox switch it'll work fine. I used the 'create launcher' feature to create a shortcut with the switch to run the app. Hope this helps.

[Jerry3904]

I haven't tried any of the apps, flatpak, appimage etc...but I do run Bitwarden's AddOn with Firefox. I haven't seen any issues, it works for me!

I use it on Opera, where it also works well.

[philotux]

I've discovered that if you run the appimage file with the --no-sandbox switch it'll work fine.

Thanks for sharing!
I have tried your solution and can confirm that it works fine on my MX 19 as well. I just wonder if there are any caveats running the app with no sandboxing.

...but I do run Bitwarden's AddOn with Firefox. I haven't seen any issues, it works for me!

The AddOn works fine for me as well on FF.

[Stevo]

It turns out that it was running for me on Liquorix kernels, which do support the sandboxing.

Before installing the latest Liquorix kernel, be sure that you have updated the DKMS drivers that your hardware is using, per the warnings, and removed any that you aren't using.