electron: [Bug]: GPU process crashes when electron is in a folder with unicode characters

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Electron Version

14.0.0

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 10 21H1

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

13.4.0

Expected Behavior

I extracted electron and one of the parent folders contained a unicode character. I would expect electron to start regardless if there is a unicode character in the path to electron.

Actual Behavior

Electron does not open and prints the following text to the command line:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1165]
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C:\electron⚛️>electron.exe

C:\electron⚛️>

Electron 14.0.0 - Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Usage: electron [options] [path]

A path to an Electron app may be specified. It must be one of the following:
  - index.js file.
  - Folder containing a package.json file.
  - Folder containing an index.js file.
  - .html/.htm file.
  - http://, https://, or file:// URL.

Options:
  -i, --interactive     Open a REPL to the main process.
  -r, --require         Module to preload (option can be repeated).
  -v, --version         Print the version.
  -a, --abi             Print the Node ABI version.
(node:29828) electron: The default of nativeWindowOpen is deprecated and will be changing from false to true in Electron 15.  See https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/28511 for more information.
(Use `electron --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
[29828:0914/164827.234:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(962)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=-1073741819
[29828:0914/164827.359:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(962)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=-1073741819
[29828:0914/164827.486:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(962)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=-1073741819
[29828:0914/164827.609:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(962)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=-1073741819
[29828:0914/164827.719:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(962)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=-1073741819
[29828:0914/164827.828:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(962)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=-1073741819


C:\electron⚛️>

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About this issue

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 17 (4 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I tried all appendSwitch lines, none worked! I hate this but for people who want their app to work again, I just downgraded to electron v12 and everything worked.

saostad on Oct 25, 2021

I see the exact GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=-1073741819 log, but without any unicode characters in the path.

NoahAndrews on Dec 2, 2021

I have the same issue with Electron 15.2.0 (and 15.3.0) on Windows 10 Pro.

About 30% of the time my BrowserView doesn’t paint and a minute or so later I get the Passthrough is not supported, GL is disabled, ANGLE is error.

I’ve tried the disable-gpu-sandbox appendSwitch in addition to disabling all sandboxing, but I still get the error.

bgerm on Nov 2, 2021

Please try below rows for solition:

app.commandLine.appendSwitch('no-sandbox')
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-gpu')
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-software-rasterizer')
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-gpu-compositing')
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-gpu-rasterization')
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-gpu-sandbox')
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('--no-sandbox')
app.disableHardwareAcceleration();

mstfdmrsln on Oct 13, 2021