Hydrogen: Hydrogen fails on startup with incompatible native modules (zeromq) on OSX 10.11.6

[davemssavage]

I'm trying to use hydrogen with docker via docker-machine on OSX and all hydrogen commands fail silently in UI, in the background there is a developer log with the following:

Failed to require the main module of 'Hydrogen' because it requires one or more incompatible native modules (zeromq).
Run `apm rebuild` in the package directory and restart Atom to resolve.

Steps to reproduce

brew install zeromq
brew install pkg-config
apm install hydrogen

Start atom, CMD+SHIFT+P -> hydrogen: connect to remote kernel

Versions:

OSX: 10.11.6
zeromq: 4.2.1
pkg-config: 0.29.1_2
Hydrogen: 1.5.5
Atom: 1.14.3
Electron: 1.3.13
Chrome: 52.0.2743.82
Node: 6.5.0

Any help appreciated this looks like a great package!

[lgeiger]

Since hydrogen 1.0.0 you don't need to install pkg-config and zeromq separately anymore. We bundle all the necessary dependencies (except jupyter).

It looks like zeromq (our bundled native module) is built against the wrong Node version. Do you have multiple versions of Atom installed?

Could you run apm rebuild, restart Atom and try again?

If this doesn't help please try:

apm uninstall hydrogen
apm install hydrogen

Please post any errors that might occur while running above commands.

[BenRussert]

I'll close this as it looks like reinstalling should work. Feel free to reply if you have any questions.

[dengemann]

@lgeiger @BenRussert moving to my new mac and doing a fresh install I run into the same issue with exactly the same error message as reported by @davemssavage. I tried the suggestions above but nothing worked. My Atom version is 1.19.9 x64 and Hydrogen is the latest (1.19.0). I'd be very grateful for your help, hydrogen became a hard dependency for my daily work.

[BenRussert]

@dengemann When you open atom do you see an incompatible packages view with a little button on the bottom that says "rebuild modules"? I think pressing this will resolve the issue.

To resolve from the command line you will need to cd to the directory where hydrogen is installed, then run apm rebuild, or if you are on atom beta and mac apm-beta rebuild

[dengemann]

@BenRussert woot! Indeed that little red bug in the bottom pane is not just cute but indeed revealed a built conflict plus a graphical resolution interface. Btw. rebuilding with apm from command line did not do the job, only the GUI way worked. Now everything works like a charm. Thank you for your help. Keep up the amazing work, hydrogen profoundly transformed the way I get things done.

[BenRussert]

@dengemann that is great to hear!

You are not the first to report that the GUI method works, but not via apm. I'm :man_shrugging: on that, so I've been pushing the GUI method.

[dengemann]

That's indeed amusing. It would not have occurred to me to search for a
solution inside the GUI. Thank you once more!

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 10:05 PM Ben Russert [e-mail]
wrote:

@dengemann https://github.com/dengemann that is great to hear!

You are not the first to report that the GUI method works, but not via
apm. I'm 🤷‍♂️ on that, so I've been pushing the GUI method.

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FWIW, I tripped on this today and the GUI solution worked while the CLI solution didn't.