NWJS 0.24.3 crashes on OSX 10.9

[oaleynik]

Hi there!

We have two users reported that our latest app version has been crashing upon startup. Both users are on OSX 10.9.5. Not sure is that a real cause of the problem, but rollback to 0.21.6 has fixed the problem. Just wanna double check with the team behind NWJS is that still true that NWJS 0.24.3 can be used on OSX 10.9+

NWJS Version : 0.24.3
Operating System : OSX 10.9.5

Expected behavior

App should start without crashing

Actual behavior

App crashes before showing anything

How to reproduce

Not sure.

[oaleynik]

Attaching system report from one of our users:

https://gist.github.com/oaleynik/afc98ab339049961231f4020aa755d06

[Christywl]

I try a simple case on Mac 10.12.6 with nwjs-sdk-v0.24.3. No crash happens. Maybe it's related to Mac version or the specific case. Is there a test case to reproduce this issue?

[Blatman]

I think this needs to be tested on 10.9 (if it is still supported) - this is the same as #6051.
I have attached a simple project out of the nwjs suite. On my machine I built the app with 0.24.3-sdk and it runs fine on 10.11 and 10.10 but crashes on start with 10.9 with duplicate services error.
Cheers

MavTest.zip

[Christywl]

The attached sample also works fine on my Mac 10.12.6, but I don't have 10.9 device to double check. If there are some crash dump files in your device, please upload here. Thanks.

[Blatman]

Attached is the dmp file from Mavericks for MavTest ....

fc756c7d-2963-455a-9162-c3c8d3762f13.dmp.zip

[rogerwang]

@oaleynik could you please provide the crash dump file?

[rogerwang]

@Blatman the dump file of yours shows that it crashes in system lib libxpc.dylib in an OSX 10.9.2 system. Could you please try with 10.9.5?

[rogerwang]

@oaleynik I managed to get more information from the trace you provided. No need to ask the users for crash dump file for now...

[Blatman]

@Roger -
just upgraded to 10.9.5 - new dump for MavTest

130b595d-2539-48d5-b9ab-e8791b7255e5.dmp.zip

[rogerwang]

@Blatman and all: I don't have 10.9 system for now. Does the official binary start and show the default NW.js screen without any app? (Just download the official binary, don't use any package tool). And make sure that there is symlink in directory nwjs.app/Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Versions (not 2 directories)

[Blatman]

@rogerwang Well, tried the 0.24.3-sdk nwjs binary itself and it also fails in the same manner - have attached screenshots of the folder structure in the framework package.

raw-nwjs.zip

[josh83abc]

I just double checked, all 3 cases of this crash report we got from our users are with MacOS 10.9.x
https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js/issues/6112

[shamun]

On OSX - 10.12.5

• package.json is not getting used

$ --version
nwjs-v0.24.3-osx-x64
$ ls
nwjs.app	package.json
$ cat package.json 
{
  "name": "Hello!!!",
  "main": "https://codepen.io/matt-west/full/wGzuJ",
}
$ ./nwjs.app/Contents/MacOS/nwjs .
[0823/095412.545671:WARNING:chrome_main_delegate.cc(590)] final extension: 
[21629:34051:0823/095412.902386:ERROR:browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc(103)] Failed to launch GPU process.

[rogerwang]

@Blatman the error msg says about "duplicate service", so I guess there may be another app or NW binary in the system. Would you change the bundle ID from "io.nwjs.nwjs.*" to something else or make sure there is no other NW binaries in the system and try again? I found these files contain the official bundle ID in the binary:

./Contents/Info.plist
./Contents/Resources/io.nwjs.nwjs.manifest/Contents/Resources/io.nwjs.nwjs.manifest
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Resources/app_mode_loader.app/Contents/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Resources/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Versions/A/Resources/app_mode_loader.app/Contents/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/AlertNotificationService.xpc/Contents/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/app_mode_loader.app/Contents/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/Versions/Current/XPCServices/AlertNotificationService.xpc/Contents/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Framework.framework/XPCServices/AlertNotificationService.xpc/Contents/Info.plist
./Contents/Versions/60.0.3112.101/nwjs Helper.app/Contents/Info.plist

[rogerwang]

@Blatman forget it. I just get a 10.9 system and will see it.

[rogerwang]

A workaround is to add --disable-features=NativeNotifications to the command line.

[shamun]

YES - it works by adding the parameter in OSX.

[oaleynik]

@rogerwang thanks for a hint to workaround this! Should we expect official fix for this? We were kinda excited for native notifications..

[rogerwang]

Yeah. I'll try to workaround the system xpcd issue, which is apparently fixed in later macOS versions: from system.log you can see that the same XPC service from NW is scanned twice and reported as duplication...

[oaleynik]

@rogerwang no prob. Just let us know if there is no quick fix for this. Thanks a lot!

[rogerwang]

This is fixed in git and will be available in the next nightly build.

[musigo-http]

how and where to install nw.js for mac os x 10.9.5?

[ayushmanchhabra]

https://dev.to/thejaredwilcurt/guide-to-nw-js-versions-5d38
@neymar57 this might help

[musigo-http]

@ayushmanchhabra and where to find the version available for download of nw.js for mac os x 10.9?

[ayushmanchhabra]

@neymar57 As the article says, "OSX support is not well-documented". Start with v0.29.x, download and check if it runs. If it doesn't, try other versions.

Since this is a closed issue, could you ask further questions via Discord or Gitter?