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[MichaelMauderer]

Discord username

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What type of issue is this?

Permanent – Occurring repeatably

Is this issue blocking you from using Enso?

• Yes, I can't use Enso because of this issue.

Is this a regression?

• Yes, previous version of Enso did not have this issue.

What issue are you facing?

When opening a project (new or old does not matter), the IDE stays blank.

Expected behaviour

The project should open.

How we can reproduce it?

Run IDE with ./run ide watch --skip-wasm-opt --ide-option -debug.dev-tools=true --ide-option -debug --backend-source release --backend-release latest --ide-option
Create a new project
Open the project

Screenshots or screencasts

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Logs

There are many errors about the shader compilation in the developer console:

Enso Version

develop

Browser or standalone distribution

Standalone distribution (local project)

Browser Version or standalone distribution

standalone

Operating System

Linux

Operating System Version

Manjaro

Hardware you are using

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[MichaelMauderer]

I will be opening a PR to fix this in a few minutes. It seems this is fixed by a bump of the electron version.

[Akirathan]

Reopening the issue, since I can still reproduce it on all the nightly AppImages that I have locally (on the screenshot):

And also on my local build run ide build from 07-21.

Running the AppImage with -window=false and attaching with my browser works as expected. My once I try to open or create any project in the electron app, I just have a blank screen with the same errors on the console mentioned in the issue description.

My Specs:

Fedora 38
Kernel 6.4.6-200
Thinkpad P1 Gen 4
CPU:  Intel i7-11800H 11th Gen
GPU:  NVIDIA Quadro RTX A2000 4GB VRAM

[farmaazon]

Another bump is required. I've already done it in #7350 .

[kazcw]

This problem presented a bit differently on my machine (Linux); I'll note it here in case something like this happens again:

• The Electron IDE opens blank. Devtools can be opened (either with the shortcut or the CLI option), but the devtools window is also blank.
• The problem started occurring for all new builds, even of old versions. Old builds of old versions still work.
• The problem is fixed by the electron version bump in Fix Component Browser Preview #7441.

[somebody1234]

Oh, so this is what I ran into last week (the shader issue mentioned in the OP, also Linux).
For some reason, the next day it was working fine again.

(For posterity: the error message in the screenshot is "Unable to compile shader program".)

[enso-bot]

Keziah Wesley reports a new STANDUP for the last Friday (2023-07-28):

Progress: Spent most of the time debugging why I couldn't build a working IDE anymore; it turned out to be a different presentation of the time-traveling Electron bug. It should be finished by 2023-07-28.

Next Day: Next day I will be working on the #7197 task. Enso font.