Electron-builder: Electron updater not success and restart when use app.on('window-all-closed')

[purocean]

• Version:

    "electron-updater": "^4.1.2",
    "electron": "^6.0.0",
    "electron-builder": "^21.2.0",

• Target:
  Windows 10

I write code

app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
    // do nothing. prevent exit.
})

Check update. Update Progress half and exit. No log output. Just installer programmer exit.

And I remove app.on('window-all-closed')
It is works fine.

[cargonzalv]

I'm having the same problem...

[purocean]

@cegonzalv
Temporary solution:

autoUpdater.quitAndInstall()
app.exit()

[upjersdave]

Experiencing the same problem here on Windows 64bit.

Update gets downloaded => autoUpdater.quitAndInstall() => Installer starts and dies without an error message half way though.

If I run the installer exe direct from the pending folder in APPDATA, the update works fine, so the installer files are fine, but there seems to be a problem when updating _while_ the electron app is running. Maybe autoUpdater.quitAndInstall() is misbehaving somehow or not really quitting?

I have tried the various suggestions; removing window-all-closed and adding app.exit() but every time the installer continues to die half way through.

Any ideas?

[cargonzalv]

Same problem here... Tried both solutions without any success.

Ended up going back to electron-builder version 20.44.4

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[VladSanko]

Hi. @upjersdave, Same problem. Did you solve this issue ?

[mkinoshi]

We are having the same issue on the following versions too
"electron-updater": "4.2.2",
"electron": "7.1.8",
"electron-builder": "22.2.0",

[jmit-modern]

@cegonzalv
Temporary solution:

autoUpdater.quitAndInstall()
app.exit()

After all it's working!