[digiKam-users] running as root

[Maik Qualmann]

You need more lectures than you think. Otherwise you would have found the 
answer long ago on Google. Well, you will find out what environment variable 
needs to be set in order to start digiKam as root user.

Maik

Am Sonntag, 12. Februar 2023, 08:29:12 CET schrieb solarflow99:
> So where can I override with the --no-sandbox option?
> I don't need a lecture about running as root.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 11:13 PM Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You know that using root as the desktop user is a very bad idea. The
> > QWebEngine embedded in digiKam based on Chrome prevents the start as root
> > user.
> > 
> > Maik
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, 12. Februar 2023, 04:49:02 CET schrieb solarflow99:
> > > Is there any way to get around this?
> > > 
> > > # digikam
> > > digikam.facedb: Cannot found faces engine model "shapepredictor.dat"
> > > digikam.facedb: Faces recognition feature cannot be used!
> > > digikam.facedb: Cannot found faces engine DNN model
> > > "openface_nn4.small2.v1.t7"
> > > digikam.facedb: Faces recognition feature cannot be used!
> > > [4528:4528:0211/194624.865139:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(90)]
> > 
> > Running
> > 
> > > as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See
> > 
> > https://crbug.com/638180.
> > 
> > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,