Boostnote doesn't start after Electron upgrade

[AlexMV12]

Current behavior

Boostnote hangs in loading on the start screen, some errors are present in the console.
The app won't start.

Expected behavior

The app should start normally.

Steps to reproduce

1. Update Electron to the latest version
2. Try to start the app

Environment

• Version : 0.11.16
• OS Version and name : Archlinux

As I said, this happens after upgrading electron from version

4.1.4

To version

5.0.6

I have installed Boostnote via AUR.
Feel free to ask more information if needed.

[Flexo013]

Does this issue also occur when using the latest version 0.11.17?

[AlexMV12]

Does this issue also occur when using the latest version 0.11.17?

I couldn't find version 0.11.17: building the app from source solves the issue, but I don't know if it's what you wanted me to do.

[Flexo013]

You can find the 0.11.17 installer here: https://github.com/BoostIO/boost-releases/releases/tag/v0.11.17

[AlexMV12]

Sorry man, I couldn't find it in the release tags of this repo.

However, I tried and it works.
With 0.11.17 the app opens as usual.
As a workaround, one can use the AUR package boostnote-bin which is already update to 0.11.17.

[frizop]

I built locally (because there's no rpm packages) and get this same error

I used the docker container provided:

docker build -t local/boostnote .

FROM docker.io/ubuntu:16.04                                                                                                       
MAINTAINER Kazuhisa Hara <kazuhisya@gmail.com>                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                  
ENV TZ="JST-9" \                                                                                                                  
    DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive"                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                  
RUN apt-get update && \                                                                                                           
    apt-get install -y  curl --no-install-recommends                                                                              
RUN curl -OLk https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x && bash ./setup_7.x                                                            
RUN apt-get install -y \                                                                                                          
      nodejs git rpm fakeroot --no-install-recommends                                                                             
RUN npm install -g grunt-cli                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                  
RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote/ /boostnote &&\                                                      
    useradd -m mock && chown -R mock.mock /boostnote                                                                              
                                                                                                                                  
USER mock                                                                                                                         
WORKDIR /boostnote                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                  
RUN npm install                                                                                                                   
RUN grunt build                                                                                                                   

I also tried setup_8.x as well, to the same result.

[2114L3]

multiple archlinux machines impacted by this as repos have released 5.0.6

[2114L3]

ok dokey
aur have acknowledged the error.
and unknown to me that the AUR maintainer had been patching boostnote to support electron 4 as this project is still using version 3 as per the package.json
appears atleast for archlinux, there is greater issue of boostnote not keeping up with electron

[ZeroX-DG]

@Rokt33r Can you help us investigate this problem?

[jhemelhof]

AUR package maintainer reporting in. I've created a patch for Electron v5.x compatibility and have updated the package. At my end everything is working again, so could you update the package and see if any issues still remain?

[2114L3]

thanks @clone1612
that's got me working again with the AUR install, love your work!

[AlexMV12]

@clone1612 I can confirm that the AUR package is now working as expected.
Thank you everybody for your work.

[frizop]

I tried building that PR and it doesn't resolve my issue. Dunno if the conclusion is the same or not though. I'll also note, there is no alt-menu available when starting boostnote under the new electron. I was unable to get to the debug window.