Electron not working out of the box on Windows bash

Question

I'm running Electron's quick start project. I'm on Windows 10 running bash (the Ubuntu shell that comes with the OS).

Initially had some issues with npm and installed libasound2, libnss3-dev, libgconf-2-4, libxss1, and libxtst6 to fix them.

Finally stopped getting npm errors but then got this and I'm stuck:

/electron-quick-start$ npm start

> [email protected] start .../electron-quick-start
> electron .

[1117:1121/213915:FATAL:render_sandbox_host_linux.cc(40)] Check failed: 0 == shutdown(renderer_socket_, SHUT_RD). shutdown: Invalid argument
#0 0x000001e5468e <unknown>
#1 0x000001e6a38b <unknown>
#2 0x000001e6a94d <unknown>
#3 0x00000292cea2 <unknown>
#4 0x0000026f5d75 <unknown>
#5 0x0000026fc0df <unknown>
#6 0x0000026f5506 <unknown>
#7 0x00000121e5b7 <unknown>
#8 0x00000121d090 <unknown>
#9 0x000003475763 main
#10 0x7f43248a1ec5 __libc_start_main
#11 0x000000575dc9 <unknown>

Any advice?

Answer 1

This particular issue has been resolved in the Windows Insider builds, but others still remain that prevent Electron from working in WSL.

Answer 2

You can work around this problem (and the missing libraries you mentionned) by first installing Electron from Windows before executing it from bash.

I wrote some details on this GitHub issue : https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-prebuilt/issues/260