nwjs 0.17 beta - crash at boot

[AndryBray]

nwjs 0.17 crashes on Windows 7 if starting the app with window show = false (package manifest).

This bug is similar to this one but for Windows only: #4187 from which one you can take the test case

PS: after crash, no nwjs process is visible inside the task manager

[AndryBray]

Tested without any app installed (just the empty package as after download) and it's the same crash.
So nothing to do with app configurations

[oaleynik]

The same thing is on OS X https://gist.github.com/oaleynik/70dbde98d151ada76e66720f62c0c9ca

[Blatman]

FWIW - Every build of 0.17.0 has crashed on OSX 10.11.5 when starting.
Screenshot error is a bit different to what oaleynik gets but 0.17.0 won't even start up in its own folder without an app. 0.16 and prior start fine.

[ghostoy]

@Blatman I tested with 0.17 beta on Mac and it didn't crash. I'm on Mac OSX 10.11.6. Could you post corresponding crash dumps in ~/Library/Application Support/nwjs/Crashpad/completed?

[ghostoy]

@AndryBray I can confirm this bug on Windows without any application. It just crash after boot. I'll look into this issue.

[Blatman]

@ghostoy - unfortunately it looks like nwjs crashes before the ~/Library/Application Support/nwjs folder is created (it is created OK with 0.16.2). I tried upgrading the mini to 10.11.6 (El Capitan) and still the same and also tried 0.17 on a MBP running 10.10.5 (Yosemite) where it still failed with the same error as above screenshot.
Tested with NWjs-0.17.0-beta1-sdk-osx-x64 dated 08-05-2016 - console logs posted as screenshot.

[Blatman]

@ghostoy - just tried more of the builds from 08-05-2016.

nw17-5d3baf3-0d7f0fb-5dcd777-77640cb/ 5th 06:39AM WORKS!
nw17-9233164-0d7f0fb-5dcd777-77640cb/ 5th 03:46AM FAIL
nw17-9e337f4-0d7f0fb-5dcd777-77640cb/ 4th 11:59PM FAIL

The 5d3baf3 build works OK - the earlier ones fail so it looks like the problem was fixed on OSX.
I guess you were using the 5d3baf3 build.

[ghostoy]

@Blatman I was using the released beta version at https://dl.nwjs.io/v0.17.0-beta1/

[ghostoy]

This issue should be Windows 7 only, which exited with Illegal Instruction. And it only happens on some Windows 7 systems.

And it works on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

[rogerwang]

It looks like the crash is on AVX instructions in the official binary and the hardware without AVX support in the CPU. Will investigate the build options.

[rogerwang]

fixed in http://dl.nwjs.io/live-build/08-19-2016/nw17-9a9237d-feecff2-be02ea9-6c79a25/v0.17.0-beta2/