[GH-ISSUE #2547] Discord issues returned

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Originally created by @7twin on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/2547

Version: firejail version 0.9.59

There was a multitude of issues about this already and all had their fixes, but sadly none of them worked for me, whenever I try to open discord with firejail it exits with execvp: No such file or directory and no window appears.

Starting discord from the start menu makes discord appear, though it won't be listed in firejail --list, so I checked the path, it seems it gets installed into "/opt/discord/Discord", which is possibly the issue?

Some things I remember trying:

install the -git/-apparmor/.. versions from aur and git cloned directly from master, all still have the issue
run discord via direct path(s) and firejail discord profile specified
comment out various instructions inside the profiles as mentioned in other issues (always returning to the original state after)
firecfg --clean before installing any other versions, to avoid "symlink exists already"
try to install discord-canary instead (same issue)

~/ firejail discord
Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/discord.profile
Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/discord-common.profile
Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/disable-common.inc
Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/disable-devel.inc
Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/disable-passwdmgr.inc
Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/disable-programs.inc
Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/whitelist-common.inc
Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/whitelist-var-common.inc
Parent pid 12129, child pid 12130
Warning: skipping alternatives for private /etc
Warning: skipping pki for private /etc
Warning: skipping crypto-policies for private /etc
Private /etc installed in 22.75 ms
Private /opt installed in 203.11 ms
13 programs installed in 53.16 ms
Warning: cleaning all supplementary groups
Warning: cleaning all supplementary groups
Warning: /sbin directory link was not blacklisted
Warning: /usr/sbin directory link was not blacklisted
Child process initialized in 365.82 ms
execvp: No such file or directory

Parent is shutting down, bye...

Originally created by @7twin on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/issues/2547 Version: `firejail version 0.9.59` There was a multitude of issues about this already and all had their fixes, but sadly none of them worked for me, whenever I try to open discord with firejail it exits with `execvp: No such file or directory` and no window appears. Starting discord from the start menu makes discord appear, though it won't be listed in `firejail --list`, so I checked the path, it seems it gets installed into "/opt/discord/Discord", which is possibly the issue? Some things I remember trying: - install the -git/-apparmor/.. versions from aur and git cloned directly from master, all still have the issue - run discord via direct path(s) and firejail discord profile specified - comment out various instructions inside the profiles as mentioned in other issues (always returning to the original state after) - `firecfg --clean` before installing any other versions, to avoid "symlink exists already" - try to install discord-canary instead (same issue) ``` ~/ firejail discord Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/discord.profile Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/discord-common.profile Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/disable-common.inc Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/disable-devel.inc Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/disable-passwdmgr.inc Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/disable-programs.inc Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/whitelist-common.inc Reading profile /usr/local/etc/firejail/whitelist-var-common.inc Parent pid 12129, child pid 12130 Warning: skipping alternatives for private /etc Warning: skipping pki for private /etc Warning: skipping crypto-policies for private /etc Private /etc installed in 22.75 ms Private /opt installed in 203.11 ms 13 programs installed in 53.16 ms Warning: cleaning all supplementary groups Warning: cleaning all supplementary groups Warning: /sbin directory link was not blacklisted Warning: /usr/sbin directory link was not blacklisted Child process initialized in 365.82 ms execvp: No such file or directory Parent is shutting down, bye... ```

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2026-05-05 08:17:34 -06:00

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@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019):

Have you tried disabling private-bin yet? Looks like that might be missing something.

$ firejail --ignore=private-bin discord

If that doesn't help, you can experiment by commenting (disabling) some options in the discord profiles. Due to their layout you'll need to edit /etc/firejail/{discord,Discord,discord-canary,DiscordCanary,discord-common}.profile files.

@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019): Have you tried disabling `private-bin` yet? Looks like that might be missing something. $ firejail --ignore=private-bin discord If that doesn't help, you can experiment by commenting (disabling) some options in the discord profiles. Due to their layout you'll need to edit /etc/firejail/{discord,Discord,discord-canary,DiscordCanary,discord-common}.profile files.

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2026-05-05 08:17:35 -06:00

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@7twin commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019):

@glitsj16 I haven't tried private-bin ignore yet, but here's what it does if I do:

Reading profile /etc/firejail/discord.profile
Reading profile /etc/firejail/discord-common.profile
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-common.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-devel.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-passwdmgr.inc
Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-programs.inc
Parent pid 3303, child pid 3304
Warning: skipping pki for private /etc
Warning: skipping crypto-policies for private /etc
Private /etc installed in 21.15 ms
Private /opt installed in 255.34 ms
Warning: cleaning all supplementary groups
Warning: cleaning all supplementary groups
Warning: /sbin directory link was not blacklisted
Warning: /usr/sbin directory link was not blacklisted
Child process initialized in 389.64 ms
Error getpwuid: main.c:250 init_cfg: No such file or directory

Parent is shutting down, bye...

Regarding trying to comment out random options: that'll take me a while as there seems to be quite a lot of options to go through, but I'll give it a try.

@7twin commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019): @glitsj16 I haven't tried private-bin ignore yet, but here's what it does if I do: ``` Reading profile /etc/firejail/discord.profile Reading profile /etc/firejail/discord-common.profile Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-common.inc Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-devel.inc Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-passwdmgr.inc Reading profile /etc/firejail/disable-programs.inc Parent pid 3303, child pid 3304 Warning: skipping pki for private /etc Warning: skipping crypto-policies for private /etc Private /etc installed in 21.15 ms Private /opt installed in 255.34 ms Warning: cleaning all supplementary groups Warning: cleaning all supplementary groups Warning: /sbin directory link was not blacklisted Warning: /usr/sbin directory link was not blacklisted Child process initialized in 389.64 ms Error getpwuid: main.c:250 init_cfg: No such file or directory Parent is shutting down, bye... ``` Regarding trying to comment out random options: that'll take me a while as there seems to be quite a lot of options to go through, but I'll give it a try.

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2026-05-05 08:17:36 -06:00

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@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019):

@7twin I realize debugging this could take some time indeed. But with a bit luck there might be a chance this could get fixed sooner rather than later, at least if my assumptions are correct.

Error getpwuid: main.c:250 init_cfg: No such file or directory

That message suggests private-etc needs acces to a few other files, /etc/group and /etc/passwd in particular. Or it might need login.defs. Commands to try:
$ firejail --ignore=private-bin --private-etc=group,passwd discord
$ firejail --ignore=private-bin --private-etc=login.defs discord

@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019): @7twin I realize debugging this could take some time indeed. But with a bit luck there might be a chance this could get fixed sooner rather than later, at least if my assumptions are correct. > Error getpwuid: main.c:250 init_cfg: No such file or directory That message suggests `private-etc` needs acces to a few other files, /etc/group and /etc/passwd in particular. Or it might need login.defs. Commands to try: $ firejail --ignore=private-bin --private-etc=group,passwd discord $ firejail --ignore=private-bin --private-etc=login.defs discord

gitea-mirror commented

2026-05-05 08:17:36 -06:00

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@7twin commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019):

@glitsj16 first command worked it seems, though the discord log might be interesting:

[Modules] Installing discord_voice@0 from /opt/discord/resources/bootstrap/discord_voice.zip
[Modules] Failed installing discord_voice@0: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/opt/discord/resources/bootstrap/discord_voice.zip'
[Modules] Finished module installations. [success: 0] [failure: 5]

Though when I then tried the second command it logged: [Modules] No updates to install re-trying the first one too, so possibly it just worked with both, will give it a more detailed test later today, but that looked promising already, of course the less needs to be allowed for the jail to work the better too.

@7twin commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019): @glitsj16 first command worked it seems, though the discord log might be interesting: ``` [Modules] Installing discord_voice@0 from /opt/discord/resources/bootstrap/discord_voice.zip [Modules] Failed installing discord_voice@0: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/opt/discord/resources/bootstrap/discord_voice.zip' [Modules] Finished module installations. [success: 0] [failure: 5] ``` Though when I then tried the second command it logged: `[Modules] No updates to install` re-trying the first one too, so possibly it just worked with both, will give it a more detailed test later today, but that looked promising already, of course the less needs to be allowed for the jail to work the better too.

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2026-05-05 08:17:37 -06:00

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@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019):

@7twin Progress indeed. It might be a good idea to disable private-etc alltogether and comparing the results with a --noprofile run. I'm not very familiar with discord and/or its modules layout, but you seem to be on a promising track here. Would be nice to see these recent discord troubles fixed, happy hunting 😄 .

@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019): @7twin Progress indeed. It might be a good idea to disable private-etc alltogether and comparing the results with a --noprofile run. I'm not very familiar with discord and/or its modules layout, but you seem to be on a promising track here. Would be nice to see these recent discord troubles fixed, happy hunting :smile: .

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2026-05-05 08:17:37 -06:00

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@7twin commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019):

@glitsj16 update:

it works perfectly fine so far with firejail --ignore=private-bin --private-etc=group,passwd discord
firejail --ignore=private-bin --private-etc=login.defs discord most often throws Error getpwuid: main.c:250 init_cfg: No such file or directory
if betterdiscord is installed it then fails to load, not sure how I would allow it to load it in either though, as it is relative paths:

@7twin commented on GitHub (Mar 9, 2019): @glitsj16 update: - it works perfectly fine so far with `firejail --ignore=private-bin --private-etc=group,passwd discord` - `firejail --ignore=private-bin --private-etc=login.defs discord` most often throws `Error getpwuid: main.c:250 init_cfg: No such file or directory` - if betterdiscord is installed it then fails to load, not sure how I would allow it to load it in either though, as it is relative paths: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32747235/54074630-ef44c300-4262-11e9-9ee5-4da9865aa24b.png)

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2026-05-05 08:17:37 -06:00

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@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 18, 2019):

@7twin I'm looking into updating the discord profiles with dropped private-bin/additions to private-etc. That should at least fix things for the basic setup. As to your question about the plugin, the only remark I can add here is that betterdiscord seems to be abandoned and the AUR page recommends people to use alternative packages. Have you tried any of those suggestions?

@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 18, 2019): @7twin I'm looking into updating the discord profiles with dropped private-bin/additions to private-etc. That should at least fix things for the basic setup. As to your question about the plugin, the only remark I can add here is that `betterdiscord` seems to be abandoned and the [AUR page](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/betterdiscord/) recommends people to use alternative packages. Have you tried any of those suggestions?

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2026-05-05 08:17:38 -06:00

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@7twin commented on GitHub (Mar 18, 2019):

@glitsj16 yes, the regular betterdiscord got abandoned until v2 comes out, in the meantime there is rauenzis fork that he maintains until v2 comes out and I used the Linux installer, mentioned here: https://rauenzi.github.io/BetterDiscordApp/

I think I saw rauenzis fork on AUR too, but I use the script to install it in always.

@7twin commented on GitHub (Mar 18, 2019): @glitsj16 yes, the regular betterdiscord got abandoned until v2 comes out, in the meantime there is rauenzis fork that he maintains until v2 comes out and I used the Linux installer, mentioned here: https://rauenzi.github.io/BetterDiscordApp/ I think I saw rauenzis fork on AUR too, but I use the script to install it in always.

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@ghost commented on GitHub (Apr 13, 2019):

@7twin Adding group, login.defs and password to private-etc in a1fe101aca automatically closed this. Feel free to reopen when needed.

@ghost commented on GitHub (Apr 13, 2019): @7twin Adding group, login.defs and password to private-etc in https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/commit/a1fe101acad1b1c51c23138adcc2a4dfeb429424 automatically closed this. Feel free to reopen when needed.

gitea-mirror commented

2026-05-05 08:17:39 -06:00

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@7twin commented on GitHub (Apr 13, 2019):

@glitsj16 Thanks, sounds exciting, does this also address the plug in or only vanilla discord?

@7twin commented on GitHub (Apr 13, 2019): @glitsj16 Thanks, sounds exciting, does this also address the plug in or only vanilla discord?

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