Comment # 4 on bug 1191012 from Stefan Dirsch

There is a discussion on opensuse-factory mailing list with subject "new glibc
from Tumbleweed snapshot 20210920 affects electron based apps"  (original
subject: "New Tumbleweed snapshot 20210920 released!")

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today, after i installed recent updates, including the updates from snapshot
20210920, vscode did not work any more.

after some searching, i found
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/133804

so i worked around the problem with||||||||the "--no-sandbox" commandline
parameter.

then i noticed also other applications do not work any more.

i noticed, that all non-working applications are chromium/electron based
applications like slack, hamsket, vivaldi, discord, msteams.

all of them don't work any more, unless you use the "--no-sandbox" commandline
parameter.

after some more searching i found:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1944468

the reason for all this seems to be the new glibc, which was coming with
snapshot 20210920

is this already known?

in the above ubuntu issue a new/patched glibc is mentioned.

does such fix also exist for opensuse?
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The patch is for Electron to behave correct, not for glibc.

Some people hacked around it by disablling the new clone3() syscall,
but this is no solution. It's like buying a Porsche and then put a
very slow engine into it.

If you speak about openSUSE packages like docker: yes, we fixed the
applications we were aware of. But we cannot fix e.g. third party
binaries and openQA does not cover all applications
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this means, all Electron based applications need to be fixed.

and as long as such an application has not been fixed, the "--no-sandbox"
workaround has to be used with this application.
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