failed to run on ubuntu

[marawannwh]

i get this when i run "electron ."

[10282:1229/111606:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(173)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSUIDSandboxDevelopment for more information on developing with the sandbox on.
[10322:1229/111611:INFO:renderer_main.cc(200)] Renderer process started
null
[10282:1229/111614:INFO:CONSOLE(109)] "Download the React DevTools for a better development experience: https://fb.me/react-devtools", source: /home/marwan/sqltabs/node_modules/react/lib/React.js (109)
[10282:1229/111615:INFO:CONSOLE(83)] "Uncaught Error: Module did not self-register.", source: /home/marwan/sqltabs/node_modules/libpq/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js (83)

and the application just opens in an empty window

[sasha-alias]

The error means it failed to import libpq driver which is C-compiled so depends on platform architecture. Do you have 32bit or 64bit version of Ubuntu? The available build is only for x64

[marawannwh]

64bit

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libpq-dev is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-3.13.0-63 linux-headers-3.13.0-63-generic
  linux-image-3.13.0-63-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-63-generic
  python-wicd wicd-daemon
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.

[sasha-alias]

Something went wrong during compilation of libpq binding.
Check the electron version you have, should be 0.27.3:

$ electron --version
[2769:1229/143739:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(173)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxSUIDSandboxDevelopment for more information on developing with the sandbox on.
v0.27.3

If version is OK try to recompile libpq binding:

rm -rf node_modules/libpq/
export npm_config_disturl=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell
export npm_config_target=0.27.3
export npm_config_arch=x64
export npm_config_runtime=electron
npm install git+https://github.com/sasha-alias/node-libpq.git

Expected output would be smth like:

npm WARN package.json microevent@1.0.0 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json sqldoc@0.3.0 No repository field.
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings/1.2.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nan
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nan
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings/1.2.1

> libpq@1.6.4 install /home/alp/sqltabs/node_modules/libpq
> node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory `/home/alp/sqltabs/node_modules/libpq/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/addon/src/connection.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/addon/src/connect-async-worker.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/addon/src/addon.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/addon.node
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/addon.node: Finished
  COPY Release/addon.node
make: Leaving directory `/home/alp/sqltabs/node_modules/libpq/build'
npm WARN unmet dependency /home/alp/sqltabs/node_modules/c3 requires d3@'<=3.5.0' but will load
npm WARN unmet dependency /home/alp/sqltabs/node_modules/d3,
npm WARN unmet dependency which is version 3.5.12
libpq@1.6.4 node_modules/libpq
├── bindings@1.2.1
└── nan@1.9.0

If the compilation fails ensure you have picked by your shell the environment variables npm_config_disturl, npm_config_target, npm_config_arch, npm_config_runtime.
just echo them:

$ echo $npm_config_target 
0.27.3

Also ensure you have pg_config from libpq-dev package installed and accessible in your PATH:

$ pg_config --version
PostgreSQL 9.3.10

[marawannwh]

it worked, i don't know what was wrong
i did libpq recompiling, and used bash instead of fish

thanks, great app

[sasha-alias]

fish has a different way of setting environment variables, it's not fully bash compatible so instead of
export you should use set command.