[Bug]: Fails to start with TypeError

[hollunder]

Guidelines

• [X] I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• [X] I have searched the issue tracker for a bug report that matches the one I want to file, without success.
• [X] I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.

Describe the bug

Crashes on startup, see below. The weird thing is that after installing 0.17.1 the previously working version 0.17.0 would also fail to start with the same error. Installed using this AUR script, just with updated version: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=freetube-wayland

Expected Behavior

Expected to not crash on startup.

Issue Labels

causes crash

FreeTube Version

0.17.1

Operating System Version

Arch Linux

Installation Method

AUR

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

$ freetube
[25487:0819/090543.722013:ERROR:gpu_init.cc(457)] Passthrough is not supported, GL is egl, ANGLE is 
[25487:0819/090543.726936:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(376)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
(node:25438) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Cannot create a secure cookie from an insecure URL
(Use `electron --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:25438) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:25438) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Cannot create a secure cookie from an insecure URL
(node:25438) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)
TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'value' of 'object null' as it is null.
    at /usr/lib/freetube/app.asar/dist/main.js:1:4801
    at async W (/usr/lib/freetube/app.asar/dist/main.js:1:4757)
    at async App.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/freetube/app.asar/dist/main.js:1:9167)
[1]    25438 segmentation fault (core dumped)  freetube --trace-warnings

Nightly Build

• [ ] I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

I actually think that https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/2190 is your issue. Is possible for u to verify this? Try not to run FT on Wayland.

[hollunder]

Possibly. What is weird is that 0.17.0 worked, I installed 0.17.1 which showed that error and after going back to 0.17.0 I got the same error. So I guess it could be related to some setting or something else persistent that Freetube does on startup.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Hmm i don't think #2190 is related based of u saying v0.17.0 was working and looking at the change log of v0.17.1.

The AUR package is not being maintained by us. I would recommend reaching out to the maintainer of that package.

[hollunder]

I tried to install https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=freetube-git again, from which I previously switched away because of some issue. This one works, even though it throws similar errors on startup. I did notice that it uses a newer version of Electron.

$ freetube
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'value' of 'object null' as it is null.
    at /usr/lib/freetube-git/app.asar/dist/main.js:1:4801
    at async W (/usr/lib/freetube-git/app.asar/dist/main.js:1:4757)
    at async App.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/freetube-git/app.asar/dist/main.js:1:9167)
(node:51544) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Cannot create a secure cookie from an insecure URL
(Use `electron --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:51544) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:51544) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Cannot create a secure cookie from an insecure URL
(node:51544) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)
[51606:0819/134203.597374:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[51606:0819/134207.351485:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[51606:0819/134220.697247:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

I have seen this error before over at https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/2269

[hollunder]

Interesting. I run open source AMD drivers though, so quite a different graphics stack. Since I have a build that runs now and not much time to do debugging I will leave it here.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Looking at this again and noticed that https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=freetube-git is very outdated. I recommend that u use an up to date package.

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=freetube

v0.17.1 is the latest version

[hollunder]

Thanks, but the version number you see there is not really relevant as long as the build steps are still appropriate. VCS packages can be a bit confusing that way. Basically you get the latest commit at the time of building the package. The "-wayland" package is actually outdated and caused issues on my system. All it does however is to use a different freetube.sh and I don't see a reason to not use that in general. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/freetube.sh?h=freetube-wayland

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Is this still an issue on the latest nightly build?

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