electron: [Bug]: Spawning and unreferencing a child process prevents electron from exiting

Anyway we can turn off the “Stale” bot on this issue?

This issue still affects the latest Electron, I’m still using the workaround here https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/34808#issuecomment-1275530924 by p120ph37

The issue is that Chrome/Electron leaks open file-descriptors into the child-process. For one reason or another, these open file-descriptors being held by the child-process are keeping parts of Electron from exiting until they are closed. Try looking at the /proc/$PID/fd filesystem for the child-process, and you will see all of the inherited open descriptors. The general problem was discussed here, and is in a wont-fix status: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/1447

One way around this is to loop over all the open file-descriptors that your child-process has inherited and close them all. (of course it would be better if Electron were to provide this functionality in the child_process functions directly…)

Below is a wrapper which accomplishes this with some bash magic:

const mySpawn = (command, args = [], options) => spawn(
  '/bin/bash',
  ['-c', 'for fd in $(ls /proc/$$/fd); do case "$fd" in 0|1|2|255) ;; *) eval "exec $fd<&-" ;; esac ; done; exec "$@"' , '--', command, ...args],
  options
);

// This now works...
mySpawn('sleep', ['10'], {
    detached: true,
    stdio: 'ignore',
}).unref();

I received the following similar error “white screen” when running element-desktop --enable-logging on a Nvidia GPU GTX 1080. All this 💩 javascript; no one seems to know how to code with C++ anymore 😢 .

I build my applications with GTK 4 (C/C++) in parallel with a nice UI named Cambalache.

Electron Version: electron29-29.3.1-1 Operating System: Arch Linux

So many npm/nodejs monsters nowadays.

Anyone have any recommendations for a client built with non-js 💩 ? JS is a security nightmare to begin with and am humored by all the js being used for secure messaging app…electron is a bloated piece of yuk imo and should rarely be used for a professional application.

A fresh init of element-desktop with electron-29 💩

Resetting the UI components after locale change
Resetting the UI components after locale change
[33791:0421/192133.432115:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
ERR: Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
[33791:0421/192133.432323:ERROR:gl_display.cc(515)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
[33791:0421/192133.432408:ERROR:gl_display.cc(786)] eglInitialize OpenGL failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED, trying next display type
[33791:0421/192133.515433:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
ERR: Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
[33791:0421/192133.515593:ERROR:gl_display.cc(515)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
[33791:0421/192133.515668:ERROR:gl_display.cc(786)] eglInitialize OpenGLES failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
[33791:0421/192133.515745:ERROR:gl_display.cc(820)] Initialization of all EGL display types failed.
[33791:0421/192133.515818:ERROR:gl_ozone_egl.cc(26)] GLDisplayEGL::Initialize failed.
[33791:0421/192133.939565:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
ERR: Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
[33791:0421/192133.939728:ERROR:gl_display.cc(515)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
[33791:0421/192133.939850:ERROR:gl_display.cc(786)] eglInitialize OpenGL failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED, trying next display type
[33791:0421/192134.024441:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
ERR: Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
[33791:0421/192134.024588:ERROR:gl_display.cc(515)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Could not create a backing OpenGL context.
[33791:0421/192134.024665:ERROR:gl_display.cc(786)] eglInitialize OpenGLES failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED
[33791:0421/192134.024737:ERROR:gl_display.cc(820)] Initialization of all EGL display types failed.
[33791:0421/192134.024805:ERROR:gl_ozone_egl.cc(26)] GLDisplayEGL::Initialize failed.
[33791:0421/192134.027053:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(196)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization
[33827:0421/192134.201826:WARNING:vaapi_wrapper.cc(1497)] Skipping nVidia device named: nvidia-drm
[33827:0421/192134.206091:WARNING:sandbox_linux.cc(418)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[33811:0421/192134.214034:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(131)] ContextResult::kTransientFailure: Failed to send GpuControl.CreateCommandBuffer.

<--- Last few GCs --->

[4:0x30a424a38000]      725 ms: Mark-Compact (reduce) 45.5 (63.5) -> 45.4 (48.2) MB, pooled: 0 MB, 91.32 / 0.00 ms  (average mu = 0.874, current mu = 0.874) last resort; GC in old space requested
[4:0x30a424a38000]      809 ms: Mark-Compact (reduce) 45.4 (48.2) -> 45.4 (48.2) MB, pooled: 0 MB, 83.64 / 0.00 ms  (average mu = 0.784, current mu = 0.000) last resort; GC in old space requested


<--- JS stacktrace --->

[33083:0421/191751.181926:ERROR:v8_initializer.cc(799)] V8 javascript OOM (Committing semi space failed.).
Renderer process crashed - see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/application-debugging for potential debugging information.

^CError sending from webFrameMain:  Error: Render frame was disposed before WebFrameMain could be accessed
    at s.send (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:84285)
    at _.send (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:2:69269)
    at App.beforeQuit (/usr/lib/element/app.asar/lib/electron-main.js:551:82)
    at App.emit (node:events:514:28)
    at App.emit (node:domain:488:12)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I’ve tried electron 20-x-y and the 21 alpha, just in case there was any change, without success.