Electron crash on Windows on v5.0.0

[sandeepsow]

"electron": "^11.1.0",
"@journeyapps/sqlcipher": "^5.0.0",
node version: 12.20.0
npm version: 6.14.8

error:

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 3228369023
npm ERR! [email protected] ele: electron .
npm ERR! Exit status 3228369023
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] ele script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache_logs\2021-01-27T13_27_23_388Z-debug.log

The electron exe is closing if I run db.run("PRAGMA key ='mySecret'");

Could you please help on this.

[rkistner]

The output from above doesn't say much unfortunately.

To debug:

1. Check the known issue here: Incompatible with electron-rebuild / electron-forge #65.
2. Check the debug log file mentioned in the output.
3. Run electron directly, instead of via NPM.

[sandeepsow]

hey, thanks for the quick response. please find complete log.

Am using "electron-builder": "^22.9.1",

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe',
1 verbose cli 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli 'run',
1 verbose cli 'ele'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]
4 verbose run-script [ 'preele', 'ele', 'postele' ]
5 info lifecycle [email protected]preele: [email protected]
6 info lifecycle [email protected]ele: [email protected]
7 verbose lifecycle [email protected]ele: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle [email protected]ele: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin;C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\app\node_modules.bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY;C:\Program Files\nodejs;C:\Users\Administrator.windows-build-tools\python27;C:\Users\Administrator.windows-build-tools\python27;C:\Users\Administrator.windows-build-tools\python27;C:\Users\Administrator.windows-build-tools\python27;C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm
9 verbose lifecycle [email protected]ele: CWD: C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\app
10 silly lifecycle [email protected]ele: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'electron .' ]
11 silly lifecycle [email protected]ele: Returned: code: 3228369023 signal: null
12 info lifecycle [email protected]ele: Failed to exec ele script
13 verbose stack Error: [email protected] ele: electron .
13 verbose stack Exit status 3228369023
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:314:20)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:314:20)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1022:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:287:5)
14 verbose pkgid [email protected]
15 verbose cwd C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\app
16 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.18363
17 verbose argv "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "run" "ele"
18 verbose node v12.20.0
19 verbose npm v6.14.8
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 3228369023
22 error [email protected] ele: electron .
22 error Exit status 3228369023
23 error Failed at the [email protected] ele script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 3228369023, true ]

[jsavage86]

I’m having the exact same problem no matter if I’m using electron by itself or electron forge on Windows. It runs fine when there is no pragma key but crashes if I try to create an encrypted database. I’m running the example from the readme.

Node 12.18.3
Chrome 87.0.4280.141
Electron 11.2.3

[rkistner]

#70 should fix this issue.

For future reference on debugging a crash like this, this is a good guide: https://felixrieseberg.com/debugging-electron-apps-on-windows/

In my case, crash reports were not created automatically. What did help is enabling electron's crashReporter:

// In main process
const { crashReporter, app } = require('electron');

crashReporter.start({submitURL: ''});
console.log('Crash reports will be logged to:', app.getPath('crashDumps'));

[rkistner]

Fix released in v5.1.0.

[ajmasia]

Thanks, @rkistner for the solution. Now works fine on windows 💪