npm start hangs on linux from broken electron 3

[ghost]

I'm on debian 9. After npm run burnthemall beaker hangs at npm start:

$ npm start

> beakerbrowser@ start /home/substack/projects/beaker
> gulp start

[16:37:52] Using gulpfile ~/projects/beaker/gulpfile.js
[16:37:52] Starting 'start'...
[16:37:52] Starting '<anonymous>'...
Spawning electron /home/substack/projects/beaker/node_modules/electron/dist/electron
[ dat-daemon ] Starting...

I ran into this behavior recently with another electron app and downgrading to version 2 fixes the issue.

[pfrazee]

Is it possibly related to electron/electron#13415 ?

[Michael-S]

@substack - Beaker broke for me a month or two back on Debian Sid (Unstable) and the default node package. I switched to downloading the release stable binaries from nodejs.org and everything worked fine.

[asoplata]

I get this same thing on Debian Stable; even though the versions are different, the issue might be electron/electron#12850 . I could get Beaker to start only by running

npm start > /dev/null

Based on very little evidence, I think this may be an Electron problem instead of a Beaker problem. HTH

[alexandre1985]

If you use the AppImage beaker's version you won't have this issue.
It is the best choice