[Bug] after install develop on Macos, only back screen from electron, works npm run server, fails back on master

[sdetweil]

Environment

[2025-03-22 08:12:49.356] [INFO] System information:

SYSTEM: manufacturer: Apple Inc.; model: Macmini9,1; virtual: false

OS: platform: darwin; distro: macOS; release: 15.3.2; arch: arm64; kernel: 24.3.0

VERSIONS: electron: 32.3.3; used node: 20.18.1; installed node: 20.18.1; npm: 10.8.2; pm2: 5.4.3

OTHER: timeZone: America/Phoenix; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined

Which start option are you using?

npm run start

Are you using PM2?

No

Module

None

Have you tried disabling other modules?

• Yes
• No

Have you searched if someone else has already reported the issue on the forum or in the issues?

• Yes

What did you do?

Steps to reproduce the issue:

used n to install required node version, 22.14.1

checked out develop branch
remove node_modules
npm install

npm start
electron starts, black screen., no index.html load
get this error
[34408:0322/081249.790421:ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(608)] Network service crashed, restarting service.
reported
electron/electron#43400 (set to singleprocess in switches doesn't help)

checkout master
use n to install 20.18.1
remove node_modules
npm install
npm start, same problem

develop ok on Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04

connect to server from other browser on same or other system ok,
(using sample config)

What did you expect to happen?

expected to work

What actually happened?

black screen

in dev window mode npm run start:dev

Additional comments

No response

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this change.

[khassel]

Macos is not mentioned in our documentation (fortunately).

I had similar issues when running on a pi zero 2w where meanwhile the 512MB memory are not sufficient anymore (depending on used os and installed modules).

I think this issue is not related to mm but electron.

[sdetweil]

something in the save electron config folder
removing

~/Library/Application Support/Electron

fixes the problem

[sdetweil]

this also fails on ubuntu same network service failed error..

### OS:       platform: linux; distro: Ubuntu; release: 22.04.5 LTS; arch: arm64; kernel: 6.8.0-56-generic
### VERSIONS: electron: 32.2.7; used node: 20.18.1; installed node: 20.18.1; npm: 10.8.2; pm2: 5.4.3
### OTHER:    timeZone: America/Phoenix; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined 
[2025-03-23 21:17:51.963] [LOG]    

I don't see this in the electron release issues..

[sdetweil]

on windows, install used electron 35.0.3 and it worked ok
tried on mac, it installed 35.1.0

### SYSTEM:   manufacturer: Apple Inc.; model: Macmini9,1; virtual: false
### OS:       platform: darwin; distro: macOS; release: 15.3.2; arch: arm64; kernel: 24.3.0
### VERSIONS: electron: 35.1.0; used node: 22.14.0; installed node: 22.14.0; npm: 10.9.2; pm2: 5.4.3
### OTHER:    timeZone: America/Phoenix; ELECTRON_ENABLE_GPU: undefined 

but works ok

also works on ubuntu, also got 35.1.0

[sdetweil]

possibly this fixes
#3754