[Bug report]: Firefly Stardust - Beta crashes on startup

[Raivr-dev]

Platform

Desktop

Version

2.0.0-beta-2.0.3

Description

Starting Firefly Stardust - Beta crashes immediately, mentioning it can't find a file, which actually does exist when I look in the Local\Temp folder. The "aa4dbe24-d87a-42c9-b47a-b0e26c8dbca5.tmp.node" file contains 18,606,592 bytes.

App Version: 2.0.0-beta-2.0.3

platform: win32 platformVersion: 6.1.7601 platformArchitecture: x64 cpuCount: 8 totalMem: 16366.0 MB freeMem: 2492.8 MB

Error Type: [Preload Context] Error

Error: node-loader: Error: The specified module could not be found. C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp\aa4dbe24-d87a-42c9-b47a-b0e26c8dbca5.tmp.node

Expected behaviour

To start and run fine.

Actual behaviour

It crashes.

Can the issue reliably be reproduced?

Yes

Steps to reproduce the issue

Start Firefly Stardust - Beta. It does not matter whether it is installed for all users or just for me. Both installs crash.

Operating System

Windows

Diagnostics

App Version: 2.0.0-beta-2.0.3

platform: win32
platformVersion: 6.1.7601
platformArchitecture: x64
cpuCount: 8
totalMem: 16366.0 MB
freeMem: 2492.8 MB

Error Type: [Preload Context] Error

Error: node-loader:
Error: The specified module could not be found.
C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp\aa4dbe24-d87a-42c9-b47a-b0e26c8dbca5.tmp.node

Developer Profile

No

Profile Type

Software (Stronghold)

Staking

Actively staking

Crash Status

White screen

Error Messages

App Version: 2.0.0-beta-2.0.3

platform: win32 platformVersion: 6.1.7601 platformArchitecture: x64 cpuCount: 8 totalMem: 16366.0 MB freeMem: 2492.8 MB

Error Type: [Preload Context] Error

Error: node-loader: Error: The specified module could not be found. C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp\aa4dbe24-d87a-42c9-b47a-b0e26c8dbca5.tmp.node

Error Logs

No response

Duplicate declaration

• [X] I have searched the issues tracker this issue and there is none

Code of Conduct

• [X] I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[kraftjs]

Joining all the related issues from the discord:

[kraftjs]

Also the error from Linux has the same Error: node-loader, but this one is from 1.6.5 FF. Worth checking what has changed there too

[kraftjs]

From what I've seen in other related issues, I thought it might be related to missing local dependencies so I created a fresh Windows profile and installed the Firefly Beta. Didn't have any issues, so that's not it.

[kraftjs]

Extra info. When moving to the %TEMP% directory and running node [hash].tmp.node on the specified file that could not be found from the error message. t00k is affected by this issue and ran the above and received the follow error:

C:\Users\t00k\AppData\Local\Temp>node 31fa5aef-d377-4a8b-9522-58b94eaa6a6e.tmp.node
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1189
  return process.dlopen(module, path.toNamespacedPath(filename));
                 ^

Error: The specified module could not be found.
\\?\C:\Users\t00k\AppData\Local\Temp\31fa5aef-d377-4a8b-9522-58b94eaa6a6e.tmp.node
←[90m    at Object.Module._extensions..node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1189:18)←[39m
←[90m    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)←[39m
←[90m    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)←[39m
←[90m    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:77:12)←[39m
←[90m    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47←[39m {
  code: ←[32m'ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED'←[39m
}

C:\Users\t00k\AppData\Local\Temp>

This error that is being caught by the node-loader package then throws Error: node-loader: via the following code:

  return `
try {
  process.dlopen(module, __dirname + "/" + __webpack_public_path__ + ${JSON.stringify(name)}${typeof options.flags !== 'undefined' ? `, ${JSON.stringify(options.flags)}` : ''});
} catch (error) {
  throw new Error('node-loader:\\n' + error);
}
`;

[kraftjs]

Changed to blocked, awaiting next beta release to see if pull #4091 fixes this issue

[Tuditi]

Rust native modules apparently require Windows Visual C++ packages. We need to check if the latest version is present on the user's machine and download it if not.

More information about a script can be found here: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/4679

[Tuditi]

Task has been created for this bug: https://github.com/iotaledger/firefly/issues/4250. I'll close this for now.