Flipper: Ubuntu 16.04 Stuck on Loading dependency graph, done.

[simaofelgueirasJM]

For a laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 I followed this steps:

`sudo apt install curl
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt install nodejs

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn

git clone https://github.com/facebook/flipper.git
cd flipper
yarn
yarn start`

When I do yarn start it get stuck on Loading dependency graph, done.
Tried to run with --verbose but did not catch anything.
Tried to see related issues but did not work out.
Any suggestion?

[passy]

I don't have a good idea for where this could be coming from. I just tried to start Flipper like this but without having watchman installed locally as the next step here should be setting up the watcher for plugins, but that worked too.

Would you mind attaching a screenshot of the terminal output you see? Perhaps there's something else that's revealing. Otherwise, the only thing I can think of is attaching strace to it and checking if there's something interesting going on while nothing shows up in your terminal.

[simaofelgueirasJM]

This is what happens. Do you need more information?

[passy]

The libdbus error is the culprit here. If you google for libdbus no version information available electron, you will find a bunch of results. Perhaps one of them can help you out.

[passy]

I'm not sure if this is easily solvable, because Ubuntu 16.04 is quite old and probably won't allow you to easily upgrade dbus. The electron binary we bundle is built against a newer version that requires symbols that your version doesn't provide.

[simaofelgueirasJM]

Ok thank you for the help. I will try it!

[simaofelgueirasJM]

Well I Fixed it and put it working on 16.04 but now I miss the plugins:
I got this error:
connections.js:315 RecurringError: Client setup error: Premature end of stream, needed 4 more bytes
at reducer (http://localhost:3000/src/init.bundle:51768:25)
at http://localhost:3000/src/init.bundle:101421:22
at combination (http://localhost:3000/src/init.bundle:3895:31)
at computeNextEntry (:1:35747)
at recomputeStates (:1:36047)
at :1:39722
at Object.dispatch (http://localhost:3000/src/init.bundle:3713:24)
at Object.dispatch (:1:40228)
at Server.server.addListener.payload (http://localhost:3000/src/init.bundle:102718:13)
at Server.emit (events.js:182:13)
at certificateProvider.processCertificateSigningRequest.then.catch.e (http://localhost:3000/src/init.bundle:60189:24)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7) "Android:INFINIX-X551 - 5.1 - API 22:Jumia Candidate"

Any Idea?

[jknoxville]

This isn't much of a lead but googling the error points to one of our dependencies, adbkit: https://github.com/openstf/adbkit/blob/master/src/adb/parser.coffee#L187 as the likely originator of it. Have you tried it with different AVD's or even a real android device, just to narrow down the problem?

I'm not sure why this would happen though. Perhaps using the JS console, and adding a breakpoint on exceptions thrown might help if you're comfortable debugging in JS. However since that dependency is written in coffeescript I'm not sure how easy it would be.

[simaofelgueirasJM]

I tried 2 different real devices and got the same problem, on that specific computer.
I could investigate more about it, let me see. I would give feedback as soon as possible, probably tomorrow.

[jknoxville]

I've spun out a new issue for this as it looks like a separate problem: https://github.com/facebook/flipper/issues/344

Lets close out this one if it's fixed for you. Did you have to upgrade dbus to fix the original issue?

[simaofelgueirasJM]

Yes, I found the user of that computer did not upgraded the computer for a while, with Ubuntu 16.04.
After the updates done, It worked.
Thank you for the help!

PS: yes you can close