Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous>

[Arcanemagus]

Description

When Atom is closed an error is printed to the CLI it was launched from about an attempt to call to a renderer window that has been closed.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Atom
2. Close Atom

Expected behavior:

No errors printed to the terminal.

Actual behavior:

The following error stack is printed to the terminal:

Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:65:20.
Error: Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:65:20.
    at WebContents.callIntoRenderer (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\electron.asar\browser\rpc-server.js:190:19)
    at emitOne (events.js:101:20)
    at WebContents.emit (events.js:188:7)

Reproduces how often:

100% of the time, whether in safe mode or not.

Versions

Windows 10 x64

Build from https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/14372/commits/4cbff3044604988e2c2553af0d78e71c13c25696.

Atom : 1.18.0-dev-4cbff3044 x64 Electron: 1.3.15 Chrome : 52.0.2743.82 Node : 6.5.0

[email protected] (bundled in the build)

Additional Information

Whether the github panel is opened or not doesn't seem to matter. The project that was open had 2 changed files.

[BinaryMuse]

This is only when you quit Atom, not when only closing a single window, correct?

[Arcanemagus]

Correct.

[BinaryMuse]

Okay. This is a race down in Electron's RPC code. I'll provide some more context tomorrow but I'm not sure of an easy fix yet.

[BinaryMuse]

@Arcanemagus Just confirming — you said that this was fixed for you, right?

[Arcanemagus]

I wasn't seeing it on a build based on https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/14372/commits/30ee14bd1317c5d15568d4cfae08bb4eb46a0a23, although you pointed out seeing a similar message in the build from that commit here.

[Arcanemagus]

Hmmm, this is actually back on a build of https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/14372/commits/fb9fd2fbfcf2f6fa07f43efcde20d4ee109df6a4.

[Arcanemagus]

Stack trace has changed slightly:

Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:70:22.
Error: Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:70:22.
    at WebContents.callIntoRenderer (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\electron.asar\browser\rpc-server.js:190:19)
    at emitOne (events.js:101:20)
    at WebContents.emit (events.js:188:7)

[Arcanemagus]

Here's a stack trace from a build based on merging the Electron 1.6 and Node.js 7 branches into master:

Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released.
Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:70:22
Remote event names: destroyed, crashed

Looks like it might have a tad more information, likely due to the Electron update.

[Arcanemagus]

Interestingly on the released Atom v1.18.0-beta0 I don't see a message from this, but if I build the same commit I see the stack trace from https://github.com/atom/github/issues/769#issuecomment-300633172 so there must be some sort of wrapper in the installer version that is hiding that message.

[eicksl]

Having the same issue.. Did you ever resolve it?

[pachevalier]

I had the same error. My trick is to change the rights for the ~/.atom/nohub.out file.

$ sudo chown username ~/username/.atom/nohup.out

Hope it helps.

[zonggen]

In the settings, there's an option "Restore Previous Windows on Start". If you set it to "no", it will fix the problem, at least for me. Hope this would help.

[lamikk]

@pachevalier Hi, I'm getting same error message and I'm not able to solve it. @anonymousrice solution didn't work for me. Could you explain it in more detail please? I'm sorry to bother with a (probably) newbie question but I'm jut starting with all of this. Thank you

[popod]

Exactly same error for me with electron 3.0.10 on macOS Mojave.

electron  Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released.
          Function provided here: makePdf.js:150:13
          Remote event names: closed

[aleon1220]

I had the same error. My trick is to change the rights for the ~/.atom/nohub.out file.

$ sudo chown username ~/username/.atom/nohup.out

Hope it helps.

yes that is the solution. Although you are being redundant ~/username/.atom/nohup.out best to give whole path and recursive to clean up stuff

sudo chown -R USERNAME /home/USERNAME/.atom

[icecream17]

Linking to a bunch of places

Issues with the same name: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/19161 https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/24772 https://github.com/atom/github/issues/954

In the wild: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/22872 https://github.com/search?p=1&q=Attempting+to+call+a+function+in+a+renderer+window+that+has+been+closed+or+released&type=Code

There's also two versions of this error, not windows...

Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released.
Function provided here: worker.js:60:22
Remote event names: crashed, destroyed

and windows

Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released.
Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (D:\a\github\github\lib\worker.js:60:22
Remote event names: crashed, destroyed