launching chrome in ssh session

[Thiago Farina]

Hi list,

Is it possible to run chrome under a ssh session? Is it CHROME_HEADLESS for this? If so, how?

I tried the following:

$ export CHROME_HEADLESS

$ ./out/Debug/chrome --no-sandbox

Then I got the following:

[6348:6348:0812/184453:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(194)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSUIDSandboxDevelopment for more information on developing with the sandbox on.

[6348:6351:0812/184453:FATAL:browser_main_loop.cc(242)] <unknown>: Command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=cea5186ec39ed9406aaf94f800000006 --binary-syntax --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.\n

#0 0x7f87a429264e base::debug::StackTrace::StackTrace()

#1 0x7f87a42e3412 logging::LogMessage::~LogMessage()

#2 0x7f87a92bb797 content::(anonymous namespace)::GLibLogHandler()

#3 0x7f879d45ff61 g_logv

#4 0x7f879d460172 g_log

#5 0x7f8790b2cd2a <unknown>

#6 0x7f8790b2d087 <unknown>

#7 0x7f879d458d13 g_main_context_dispatch

#8 0x7f879d459060 <unknown>

#9 0x7f879d45945a g_main_loop_run

#10 0x7f8790b2c98b <unknown>

#11 0x7f879d47a9b5 <unknown>

#12 0x7f879ef96e9a start_thread

#13 0x7f879b78638d clone

Aborted (core dumped)

$ [6350:6350:0100/000000:ERROR:zygote_linux.cc(612)] write: Broken pipe

[0812/184454:ERROR:nacl_helper_linux.cc(311)] NaCl helper process running without a sandbox!

Most likely you need to configure your SUID sandbox correctly

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[Stefan Zager]

Not sure what you expect to happen.  Do you expect that a chrome window will appear on your local machine, from a chrome process running on the remote machine?  If so, then 'ssh -X' should allow you to do this, but I expect the display performance to be in the range of poor to unusable.

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[Thiago Farina]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Stefan Zager <sza...@google.com> wrote:

Not sure what you expect to happen.  Do you expect that a chrome window will appear on your local machine, from a chrome process running on the remote machine?

Nope. I don't expect/want a window to appear.

Just getting it running so I can start a debug session is enough for my needs.

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[Junichi Uekawa (上川純一)]

Hi,

I usually use xvfb-run command to run chrome under a xvfb framebuffer for testing.

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[Stefan Zager]

Assuming the remote host has X running, you should be able to do this by setting the DISPLAY env var:

$ DISPLAY=0:0 <command>

Alternately, you can run xvfb, and send the display there:

$ xvfb :1

$ DISPLAY=0:1 <command>

[Primiano Tucci]

CHROME_HEADLESS does not do what the name suggests (running without UI).
Is a magic var used by a mixture of fetch-time, build-time and run-time code (yay) to tell that chrome is running on a bot.

It does stuff like exclude breakpad, skip user prompts etc.

In essence  CHROME_HEADLESS is meant to be CHROME_UNATTENDED. 

But that (CHROME_UNATTENDED) would have been too clear as a name and there would have been the risk that somebody might have understood it. Hence CHROME_HEADLESS :-)

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[Thiago Farina]

Got it!

Thank you Stefan!

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Thiago Farina