The ~120MB Electron binary download was silently failing because npm's
default 60s fetch timeout is too short on slower connections.
Changes to step 17/27:
- Set npm fetch-timeout to 600s and retries to 5 before running npm install
- If binary still missing after npm install, retry via install.js with
ELECTRON_FORCE_DOWNLOAD=true
- If still missing, fall back to direct wget download of the exact
versioned zip from GitHub releases (300s timeout, 3 tries, shows progress)
- Exit 1 with clear message if all three attempts fail
- Log chrome-sandbox permission step for visibility
https://claude.ai/code/session_01EyjEQLWbTXcZgbMDarf7NU
/home/kiosk/ has 750 permissions so the install user can't read inside
it. The -f check and both jq reads were running as the current user and
failing silently, causing the false "config.json not found" error.
Changed:
[[ ! -f "$config_file" ]] → sudo test -f "$config_file"
jq -r ... "$config_file" → sudo -u kiosk jq -r ... "$config_file"
jq ... > "$tmp" → sudo -u kiosk jq ... > "$tmp" && sudo mv
https://claude.ai/code/session_01EyjEQLWbTXcZgbMDarf7NU
npm install returns 0 even when Electron's postinstall binary download
fails, leaving node_modules/electron/dist/electron missing and causing
a blank screen with no useful error.
After npm install, explicitly check for the binary. If absent, retry
via ELECTRON_FORCE_DOWNLOAD=true node install.js. If still missing,
print a clear error and exit 1 instead of silently continuing to a
broken install.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01EyjEQLWbTXcZgbMDarf7NU
New file ubuntu-based-kiosk-v1.0.2.sh containing all changes made
since v1.0.1:
- Authelia auto-login addon (Addons → 5): AES-256 encrypted credentials,
startup API auth, full Dockerized server-side setup printed on save
- Fix: PipeWire .config dirs created as root caused Permission denied
at step [5.5/27] on fresh Ubuntu 24.04 minimal installs
- README install commands now pull latest script dynamically via
GitHub contents API (no more hardcoded version numbers)
SCRIPT_VERSION and VERSION constants updated to 1.0.2.
README changelog and current version updated to 1.0.2.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01EyjEQLWbTXcZgbMDarf7NU
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