Question: Any idea why electron update in 2.1.4 broke Jenkins?

[antpaw]

This is just a question and not really an issue:
Have you experienced any troubles with CI integration, (I believe your using circleci) after updating to 2.1.4?

Thanks

[rosshinkley]

@antpaw Yeah, there are intermittent failures I haven't gotten to the bottom of. Have you had any luck?

[antpaw]

no I still have no idea, we are using jenkins and installed bunch of plugins to get electron working, and it still is, but with the newst version it just "hangs" without any errors or logs. no idea how to debug it.

[rosshinkley]

@antpaw Have you given this a try with later versions? I wonder if you're hitting the Xvfb hang from #561.

[antpaw]

@rosshinkley hey, i've just checked the 2.5.0 version, it still hangs without any logs. the highest version it works for me is 2.1.3

[rosshinkley]

@antpaw Do you have DEBUG output? What version of Node are you running?

[antpaw]

node version 4.2.6

just turned debugging on and saw this:

+ DEBUG=nightmare* NODE_ENV=testing-production make ftest
node_modules/.bin/mocha --harmony test/functional/ ./apps/**/test/functional/*.coffee --opts test/functional/mocha.opts --reporter dot
Listening on port 4600
Tue, 31 May 2016 14:25:51 GMT nightmare running
Tue, 31 May 2016 14:25:51 GMT nightmare electron child process exited with code 127: command not found - you may not have electron installed correctly

"...may not have electron installed correctly" but it doesn't exit the process

[rosshinkley]

Can you run it again with DEBUG=*,-mocha* under 2.5.0? Also, what operating system/version are you running?

[antpaw]

ah, thanks now its possible to see much more. I assume it fails every test very slowly or tries to recover over and over again.

Listening on port 4600
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:03:24 GMT nightmare running
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:03:24 GMT electron:stderr /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/webapp-staging/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:03:24 GMT nightmare electron child process exited with code 127: command not found - you may not have electron installed correctly
  ․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:03:54 GMT nightmare running
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:04:24 GMT nightmare running
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:04:24 GMT electron:stderr /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/webapp-staging/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:04:24 GMT nightmare electron child process exited with code 127: command not found - you may not have electron installed correctly
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:04:54 GMT nightmare running
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:05:25 GMT nightmare running
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:05:25 GMT electron:stderr /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/webapp-staging/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:05:25 GMT nightmare electron child process exited with code 127: command not found - you may not have electron installed correctly
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:05:55 GMT nightmare running
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:06:25 GMT nightmare running
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:06:25 GMT electron:stderr /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/webapp-staging/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:06:25 GMT nightmare electron child process exited with code 127: command not found - you may not have electron installed correctly
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:06:55 GMT nightmare running
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:07:25 GMT nightmare running
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:07:25 GMT electron:stderr /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/webapp-staging/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:07:25 GMT nightmare electron child process exited with code 127: command not found - you may not have electron installed correctly
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:07:55 GMT nightmare running
․Tue, 31 May 2016 18:08:25 GMT nightmare running
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:08:25 GMT electron:stderr /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/webapp-staging/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Tue, 31 May 2016 18:08:25 GMT nightmare electron child process exited with code 127: command not found - you may not have electron installed correctly

[rosshinkley]

I just hit this when working on the Circle tests to include multiple NodeJS versions. I had a sneaking suspicion you were missing libnotify. If you're on Ubuntu, installing libnotify-bin with apt-get should solve it for you.

[antpaw]

That's what I though when I opened this issue! Thanks so much, I will try it tomorrow (gmt)