electron: Electron App crashes on startup on Catalina

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Issue Details

Electron app crashes on startup with the helpful message … quit unexpectedly.

• Electron Version:: That’s the problem …

• Operating System:: MacOS 10.15.2 Catalina

• Last Known Working Electron version:: 5.0.13

Expected Behavior

Not crashing … ?

Actual Behavior

After a few seconds, the application quits without ever showing a window. The OS message is … quit unexpectedly.

To Reproduce

Start application

Additional Information

I am using electron-packager to compile the application. Using npm start is fine.

I have tried the following:

• Comment out all of the code in main.js and in index.html
• Using electron-rebuild to recompile node modules
• Various versions of electron before and after 5.0.13

I have also used electron-log and logged messages from main.js. Up to 5.0.13, of course, everything is fine. After that version, the main script runs, but anything from app.on or ipcMain.on doesn’t get triggered.