Not opening on MacOS

[joshwcomeau]

Downloaded the MacOS zip, tried opening it, and I'm afraid nothing happens; No application appears to open.

Tried copying to the Applications folder, still no luck.

I'm on MacOS Mojave, 10.14.6 (18G3020)

Hope it helps! Really excited to check this out :)

[everttrollip]

Confirmed to not work on my side too. If it helps, I got the following message: "“guijs” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware."

macOS Catalina, Version: 10.15.3 (19D76)

[dfelber]

App opens but crashes directly after the splash screen when the installed node version is >= 12 otherwise it shows a screen urging you to update to >= 12.

The crash-log does not look quite promising - but maybe it helps:

Crashed Thread:        Unknown

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Backtrace not available

Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000000  rbx: 0x0000700004962000  rcx: 0x0000700004961758  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x000000000000cf2f  rsi: 0x0000000000000006  rbp: 0x0000700004961790  rsp: 0x0000700004961758
   r8: 0x0000000201643f70   r9: 0x0000000000000100  r10: 0x0000000000000000  r11: 0x0000000000000206
  r12: 0x000000000000cf2f  r13: 0x0000000000000000  r14: 0x0000000000000006  r15: 0x000000000000002d
  rip: 0x00007fff674c82c2  rfl: 0x0000000000000206  cr2: 0x00007fff9db05188
  
Logical CPU:     0
Error Code:      0x02000148
Trap Number:     133


Binary images description not available


External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 56450378
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 34599

[swyxio]

I didn't get an error, but got this: Node.js not found on your system

i have Node 10.17.0 installed when i run node -v.

[nothingismagick]

@everttrollip - did you try the ctrl-click / right click and then open? it should enable you to open it then.

[nothingismagick]

@sw-yx - you need to have minimum node 12.

[rigor789]

@nothingismagick I get the same as @sw-yx with node v13.5.0

I'm using volta to manage node version, could that be related?

[nothingismagick]

Think I found my mistake - creating a new bundle for you to test

[swyxio]

@nothingismagick oh, TIL - might want to check and show a nice warning or mention in release notes

[nothingismagick]

Please let me know if this resolves it for you. guijs.app.zip

[nothingismagick]

@rigor789 - I never heard of volta before - but if node is in your path it should just work. Please let me know if the version i posted above works now.

[rigor789]

I just tried it, but seems to crash as soon as it opens.

Digging a little - seems like it's trying to run npm install -g @guijs/server-core but global installs are not directly supported with volta - instead they need to use volta install @guijs/server-core.

I installed it manually, and I'm able to run the new version now!

I guess the userbase for Volta is not too large - it's lightweight nvm alternative in a nutshell.

[ZainW]

Please let me know if this resolves it for you. guijs.app.zip

the one on the releases page (20+ min ago) did not work

the one linked in the comment does! thanks for the fix

[nothingismagick]

@rigor789 - oh! I'll add that to the release notes. Thanks for the heads up. That's what happens when you make assumptions I guess. Cheers

[rigor789]

@nothingismagick cool! I don't think many will run into this - but hey, nice to have it noted :)

Thanks for the fix!

[nothingismagick]

I updated the binary in the release too.

[puglyfe]

I'm not able to install, even with the updated binary.

OSX 10.14.6 node v12.6.0

Node managed via nvm, but confirmed that the v12 binary is in my PATH. The icon bounces in my dock one time, then disappears - no splash screen or anything. Not able to find anything significant in system console. Just a mention of a Plugins folder not found (non-fatal):

Non-fatal error enumerating at <private>, continuing: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “PlugIns” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSURL=PlugIns/ -- file:///Applications/guijs.app/Contents/, NSFilePath=/Applications/guijs.app/Contents/PlugIns, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fbb9142faa0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}

[adhamfarrag]

"Node.js was not found on your system"

OSX 10.15.3 node v12.6.1

[nothingismagick]

@puglyfe - that is very bizarre - we don't have a Plugins folder or anything about plugins in our apps Info.plist

Here is a stupid workaround that SHOULD get the proper $PATH into the app:

cd ~/Downloads
open guijs.app/Contents/MacOS/guijs

[nothingismagick]

@puglyfe - maybe its because we aren't shipping translations.

sudo spctl --master-disable

https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare/issues/846#issuecomment-499652547

But we are definitely going to have to start signing the application, I think that will solve most of these "growing pains" problems too.

[puglyfe]

➜  ~ open /Applications/guijs.app 
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/guijs.app.

@nothingismagick this seems to be getting into some weird low level system behavior. i'm not comfortable taking a sledgehammer to system security policies to try this yet. i'll keep poking around and report back if i learn anything.

[alonp99]

open guijs.app/Contents/MacOS/guijs worked for me

[puglyfe]

open guijs.app/Contents/MacOS/guijs worked for me

Nice one! That worked for me as well.

[nothingismagick]

Over the next few days I'll circle back and do a low-level schematic of how this all works.

[everttrollip]

@nothingismagick I tried the ctrl-click to open but it still didn't work for me.

Please let me know if this resolves it for you. guijs.app.zip

This didn't help me either. Still can't open on Mac

[nothingismagick]

@everttrollip - last thing that really has to work: open a console and navigate to the place where the download was saved:

cd ~/Downloads

make sure the app is unzipped and then run

open guijs-macos.app/Contents/MacOS/guijs

(Or whatever it is that the file is named.)

[everttrollip]

@nothingismagick not working, no. Running open in the terminal doesn't work around the same issue as earlier: "“guijs” cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer."

[nothingismagick]

@everttrollip This might help you in the meantime until we get the signing sorted:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40616/mac

[frankieshakes]

I updated the binary in the release too.

Can confirm that the latest (updated) binary is now working for me too. Thanks!

[JessicaSachs]

The latest binary has the issue where if your current nvm version is < node 12, and you fix it, you can't re-open it -- it just bounces once in the dock and then exits.

You need to delete the app from Applications and re-install it after changing your nvm version to >= 12.

Should that go into a separate issue?

[nothingismagick]

@JessicaSachs - yes please make a new issue about that, and thanks for debugging!