Removing temporary directory on Windows fails with no error

[MarshallOfSound]

Running on a Windows Server 2008 build agent the packager fails to generate artifacts with no error

Which version of electron-packager are you using?

Tested on both 7.2.0 and 7.3.0. The exact same config was working a few days ago so perhaps something has changed in the dependency tree?

What CLI arguments are you passing? Alternatively, if you are using the API, what parameters are
you passing to the packager() function?

const defaultPackageConf = {
  'app-bundle-id': packageJSON.name,
  'app-category-type': 'public.app-category.healthcare-fitness',
  'app-copyright': `Copyright © ${(new Date()).getFullYear()} ${packageJSON.author.name}, All rights reserved.`, // eslint-disable-line
  'app-version': packageJSON.version,
  arch: 'ia32',
  asar: true,
  'build-version': packageJSON.version,
  dir: '.',
  icon: './build/assets/img/main',
  ignore: ignoreFn,
  name: packageJSON.productName,
  out: './dist/',
  overwrite: true,
  platform: 'win32',
  prune: true,
  tmpdir,
  version,
  'version-string': {
    CompanyName: packageJSON.author.name,
    FileDescription: packageJSON.productName,
    ProductName: packageJSON.productName,
    InternalName: packageJSON.productName,
  },
};

What version of Electron are you building with?

Tried building with Electron 1.2.x and 1.3.x

What is the host platform are you running electron-packager on?

Windows Server 2008, x64

What target platform(s)/architecture(s) are you building for?

Windows x86

Is there a stack trace in the error message you're seeing?

No, there is no error, it just stops. When running with DEBUG enabled the extract-zip module declares itself complete then a second later the process exits with exit code 0.

[malept]

That is really weird. Can you reproduce this on another (host) operating system?

The exact same config was working a few days ago so perhaps something has changed in the dependency tree?

That seems possible.

[MarshallOfSound]

@malept It successfully builds on OSX with mono and wine and such installed. It's really strange, no errors, no crashes. The process just dies.

I'm trying to console log my way to the crash now.

[MarshallOfSound]

@malept Isolated the cause as being 2 different versions of node. It succeeds on node 6.x and fails on node 4.x. This coincides with us dropping a dependency on babel-register.

Has a bit of unsupported ES6 syntax slipped in somewhere?

[malept]

@MarshallOfSound Shouldn't have. Tests run successfully on Windows x64 (7.3.0 test run). Admittedly there are certain tests which do not run on our Windows CI, but I think they're all Mac related so it wouldn't be relevant to your particular problem.

[malept]

Out of curiosity, did you test on non-Windows with Node 4.x?

[MarshallOfSound]

@malept Yep and it failed silently like on the windows agent. Reintroducing babel-register fixed the issue but I'd love to know the root cause

[malept]

@MarshallOfSound I can't reproduce this with electron-quick-start. Repro instructions (tested on x64 Debian):

1. nodeenv --prebuilt --node 4.4.7 /tmp/node4 && source /tmp/node4/bin/activate
2. git clone $electron_quick_start_url && cd electron-quick-start
3. npm install --save-dev electron-packager
4. node_modules/.bin/electron-packager --asar --app-version=1.0.0 . --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 --out=dist --overwrite --prune

The folder dist/electron-quick-start-win32-ia32/ exists with what appears to be the correct contents.

[MarshallOfSound]

@hugolpz That appears to be a completely different issue

[hugolpz]

(I followed malept steps above and can't reproduce this with electron-quick-start. My apologizes.)

[neonhomer]

We just ran into this issue where one of our Windows 10 machines would stall with no error or any information like @MarshallOfSound. After some extensive debugging we found that fs-extra was silently failing when trying to remove the tempBase folder.

We cleared out the C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp folder and it works fine now.

[malept]

Well that's weird.

CC: @jprichardson