node.js - ElectronJS: npm ERR! errno 4294930435

Question

I have this ElectronJS project that I finally managed to build correctly (no errors when building). But when I am trying to start it, I just get this error:

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 4294930435
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `electron dist/main.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 4294930435
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:UsersAnoneemoAppDataRoaming
pm-cache\_logs2021-01-22T16_56_16_185Z-debug.log

I can't make sense of the debug.log file either.

But when I try to launch the application with electron dist/main.js --enable-logging instead of the npm start script, I get this in the console: [16724:0122/180054.390:ERROR:crashpad_client_win.cc(808)] not connected. I have tried removing the node_modules folder, installing again, verifying the cache, restarting the computer and pretty much everything I could dig up on google.

Does anyone know what could be wrong here? It launched fine before I had the error when building. Then I got error when building and fixed that by simply adding an exclude to my webpack babel-loader. Then it builds fine, but wont startup at all. The whole project can be found here: movie-ex.

Any clues anyone? Thanks in advance!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65849599/electronjs-npm-err-errno-4294930435

Answer 1

Noting that I do not use webpack, I received the exact same error after upgrading Electron from v8.1.0 to v11.2.0

My error appeared to originate from the use of the "__dirname" variable when used in the Electron "new BrowserWindow" -> "icon" setting.

As you are using modules, I suspect it may have something to do with the "new BrowserWindow -> webPreferences -> nodeIntegration" and "contextIsolation" scope settings, thus your need to set __dirname: true in your "webpack.config.js" file (Ref: https://webpack.js.org/configuration/node/)

PS: I'm not full bottle on the updated Electron "nodeIntegration" and "contextIsolation" settings as I only updated my app this morning for the first time in a long time and learnt of the changed / pending default setting(s) of Electron v12.

More information can be found below:

• nodeIntegration
• contextIsolation

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Funnily enough, my original "icon" value was icon: __dirname + '',. I had set this early on during development and subsequently forgot to point it to a proper *.ico file later on.

I just created an "icon.ico" file and set the "icon" value accordingly.

icon: __dirname + '/../../../icons/icon.ico' This seemed to work.

As an alternative, I also tried the following (with the "icon" line commented out).

win.setIcon(__dirname + '/../../../icons/icon.ico'); This worked as well.

Note to self: Refactor to the path -> join function.

Important: That all said, I currently have set nodeIntegration: true. Better sort this out before upgrading to Electron v12.