Error: The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly

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I'm sorry to just paste an error code, but I have no clue what else to try. I have looked at all the guides on this site, but nothing quite matches my issue. I am using an ubuntu subsystem on windows 10 for the project "Zettlr". Here is the error code I get when running 'yarn start'

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 node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Done in 17.85s.

I am trying to run this, but it wants me to change access and ownership. chmod has no effect (which I understand is due to the windows storage system) but I have no idea how to get this program to run correctly. I have also ran chown. From my stat check, the chmod mode for the file is 777, so it should be accessable anyway. Could anyone direct me to a guide for this, or explain what I can do?

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Mike Slinn On BEST ANSWER

Sounds like the files you are working with are on NTFS volumes, mounted somewhere under /mnt. Move your project to a native Linux partition, for example under $HOME, /var, /opt, etc.

chmod and its friends (chgrp, chown) should all work 100% on native Linux volumes.