Failed converting Markdown when running inside VSCode (snap) terminal

[zhelnio]

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• chromium installed using the system default apt install (installs snap package)
• vscode installed using snap
• marp installed globaly

$ npm list -g --depth=0
/usr/local/lib
├── @marp-team/[email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

Converting in default (gnome) terminal:

marp slides_ru.md --allow-local-files --output out/slides_ru.pdf
[  INFO ] Converting 1 markdown...
[  WARN ] Insecure local file accessing is enabled for conversion from slides_ru.md.
[  WARN ] Some of the local files are missing and will be ignored. Make sure the file paths are correct.
[  INFO ] slides_ru.md => out/slides_ru.pdf

Converting in VS Code terminal:

marp slides_ru.md --allow-local-files --output out/slides_ru.pdf
[  INFO ] Converting 1 markdown...
[  WARN ] Insecure local file accessing is enabled for conversion from slides_ru.md.
[ ERROR ] Failed converting Markdown. (Puppeteer was unable to kill the process which ran the browser binary.
          This means that, on future Puppeteer launches, Puppeteer might not be able to launch the browser.
          Please check your open processes and ensure that the browser processes that Puppeteer launched have been killed.
          If you think this is a bug, please report it on the Puppeteer issue tracker.
          Error cause: Error: kill EACCES
          at ChildProcess.kill (internal/child_process.js:438:26)
          at BrowserRunner.kill (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@marp-team/marp-cli/node_modules/puppeteer-core/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:149:27)
          at ChromeLauncher.launch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@marp-team/marp-cli/node_modules/puppeteer-core/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/Launcher.js:111:20))

P.S. the same error text was shown when I've tried to export pdf using VS Code marp extension

[yhatt]

Marp CLI in a terminal seems to get working in the latest version (except warning about some missing links to local files). Thus, I think that it's VS Code's snap specific.

Is CHROME_PATH=/snap/bin/chromium marp slides_ru.md --allow-local-files --output out/slides_ru.pdf getting work in VS Code terminal?

We've confirmed it is snap specific. This error is not reproduced in VS Code installed by .deb.

marp-vscode is still throwing error because we are waiting updation of the containing CLI in the extension until new version made stable. See also: marp-team/marp-vscode#166, marp-team/marp-vscode#165

[yhatt]

Minimum reproducible example

$ echo '' | DEBUG="puppeteer:*" npx @marp-team/marp-cli -o ~/marp.pdf

[  INFO ] Converting 1 markdown...
  puppeteer:launcher Calling /usr/bin/chromium-browser --disable-background-networking --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages --disable-default-apps --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-extensions --disable-features=TranslateUI --disable-hang-monitor --disable-ipc-flooding-protection --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-renderer-backgrounding --disable-sync --force-color-profile=srgb --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --enable-automation --password-store=basic --use-mock-keychain --user-data-dir=/tmp/marp-cli-conversion --headless --hide-scrollbars --mute-audio about:blank --export-tagged-pdf --remote-debugging-pipe +0ms
  puppeteer:protocol:SEND ► {"method":"Target.setDiscoverTargets","params":{"discover":true},"id":1} +0ms
  puppeteer:error Error: read ECONNRESET
  puppeteer:error     at Pipe.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:205:27) +0ms
[ ERROR ] Failed converting Markdown. (Puppeteer was unable to kill the process which ran the browser binary.
          This means that, on future Puppeteer launches, Puppeteer might not be able to launch the browser.
          Please check your open processes and ensure that the browser processes that Puppeteer launched have been killed.
          If you think this is a bug, please report it on the Puppeteer issue tracker.
          Error cause: Error: kill EACCES
          at ChildProcess.kill (internal/child_process.js:492:26)
          at BrowserRunner.kill (/home/yhatt/.npm/_npx/12762/lib/node_modules/@marp-team/marp-cli/node_modules/puppeteer-core/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:149:27)
          at ChromeLauncher.launch (/home/yhatt/.npm/_npx/12762/lib/node_modules/@marp-team/marp-cli/node_modules/puppeteer-core/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/Launcher.js:111:20))

The originally reported error message shows that Puppeteer cannot close the process but it's actually not the root cause. Error: read ECONNRESET has thrown internally because unexpected closing of connection to Chromium was brought by some reason.

[yhatt]

I found out the root of this issue. AppArmor profile prohibits classic snap (VS Code) from inheriting file descriptors (in Puppeteer).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1849753

@zhelnio It's probably insecure but CHROME_PATH="/snap/chromium/current/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chrome" marp would maybe help you.

[yhatt]

Update: canonical/snapd#10029 may fix it.