Chromium is just not going to be helpful here.  If you've got root,
you'll have to do something like:

# chmod 4755 /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chrome-sandbox
# chown root /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chrome-sandbox

then run chromium as user.

Fabian

On 28-06-2019 09:27:49 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Many thanks for your response.
> 
> I tried running chromium to see if it would work.
> 
> I did as user and then as root.
> 
> mikef@fart:~$ /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/bin/chromium
> [1459:1459:0628/081848.057654:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] The SUID
> sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than
> run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that
> /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chrome-sandbox is owned by root
> and has mode 4755.
> 
> as root
> 
> root@fart:/home/mikef/gentoo# /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/bin/chromium
> [1568:1568:0628/082021.807096:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(89)] Running as
> root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See [1]https://crbug.com/638180.
> 
> Suggestions on a fix here would be appreciated.
> 
> If I get away with using the xorg-server of debian than that would be very
> helpful.
> 
> Regards
> 
> MF
> 
> 
> 
>  References:
>    1. https://crbug.com/638180
> 
> read_char: errno==EILSEQ; invalid byte sequence for UTF-8: 
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Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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