Inoperable on Apple Silicon with macOS 11 Big Sur

[gregcotten]

Loads up with no window - File-New Repository causes an immovable white window to appear.

Related to this Electron issue I imagine.

[tierninho]

@gregcotten Thanks for the issue, you may be correct. However, we have had reports of white screens before so feel free to share your logs if you want us to investigate further, else we will upgrade in due time. Logs can be found in the Help menu.

[markmunoz]

I am confirming the same behavior. Going to the logs directory and it is just empty, no files present in the ~/Library/Application Support/GitHub Desktop/logs directory.

[jdjingdian]

Confirming the same issue, feeling desperate that I can't use Github Desktop on my DTK

[1998code]

Not working +1. Still no workaround?

[jbotte]

I'm running a vs code experimental build that i believe uses a new electron version compiled for silicon... maybe that is what GitHub desktop needs to be built with as well?

Here is what their vs code build uses

Electron: 11.0.0-beta.4
Chrome: 86.0.4234.0
Node.js: 12.18.3
V8: 8.6.373-electron.0

[mobilinked]

Not working here after upgrade to Big Sur beta 7

[jbotte]

I have no window display, but if I try to click new repo that's when I get white screen

[mobilinked]

Tested on Big Sur beta 9 - not work.

[niik]

Hey folks, I just wanted to let you know that this is something we're keeping an eye on but we'll have to wait until electron releases an update that we can upgrade to. We typically stay at least one major version behind electron but it's too early to say whether we will make an exception for this.

If you know of any desktop specific bugs related to Big Sur and/or Apple ARM please let us know in a separate issue but for now I'd ask that you please refrain from commenting only to say Desktop doesn't run on the development transition kit.

[jbotte]

Markus, Thanks for the reply, makes sense. Would happily volunteer to test beta builds if it becomes an option.

[rstockm]

Well here it is:

https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon

https://www.electronjs.org/releases/beta?version=11

[dmitshur]

Has this issue been resolved (and not closed)? I can't reproduce the original issue—I've tried GitHub Desktop v2.6.0 on an M1 Mac with macOS 11.0.1 and it starts up with visible windows. I was able to add a repository and view some commits. File→New Repository works okay too.

It seems some other people are also finding that v2.6.0 works under Rosetta, see ThatGuySam/doesitarm#293 (comment) and comments below. Though I didn't find anything in the release notes mentioning this.

[jbotte]

i still do not have the ability to run it on rosetta, i get no initial launch screen and if i click any of the menu items i get a new window opening to white.

[gregcotten]

They may need to set LSRequiresNativeExecution to true in the app's Info.plist to prevent someone running the app under Rosetta 2 translation.

[niik]

Has this issue been resolved (and not closed)? I can't reproduce the original issue—I've tried GitHub Desktop v2.6.0 on an M1 Mac with macOS 11.0.1 and it starts up with visible windows. I was able to add a repository and view some commits. File→New Repository works okay too.

@dmitshur Yes, we've gotten several reports of Desktop (x64) working just great on the production version of Apple's M1 processor. We're still working towards being able to deliver arm64 builds of Desktop but that's separate from this issue.

i still do not have the ability to run it on rosetta, i get no initial launch screen and if i click any of the menu items i get a new window opening to white.

@jbotte Could you please confirm that you're running on production hardware, i.e. not the Developer Transition Kit (DTK)? We know that Desktop can't run on the DTK.

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I'm going to tentatively close this out and ask that if anyone experiences issues running Desktop on production M1 hardware that they please open a new issue for that specific problem. @dennisameling has been contributing heavily towards us being able to ship arm64 binaries of Desktop (for both macOS and Windows), feel free to follow along on that journey in #9691, #11142, #11021 and more.

[jbotte]

@niik thanks, yea I am running DTK that must be my issue.

[gregcotten]

Yikes, what a terrible issue to have on a Developer Kit that is supposed to mirror production hardware! What on the DTK causes this to happen?!

[jbotte]

Shame too since i use the Git Client when working on the apps I am supposed to be testing . womp womp

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[spushpa5]

I am still struggling to work with the GitHub desktop in my mac Big Sur- Getting while window. Is there any workaround available??

[vdthatte]

+1 have the same issue