Hyper: Windows - Hyper terminates in 5h intervals

[peterdanis]

• [x] I am on the latest Hyper.app version

• [x] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

• OS version and name: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

• Hyper.app version: 1.4.8 and 2.0.4
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: https://gist.github.com/peterdanis/52d74e683cdb65dd026730b6f3a4c330
• Relevant information from devtools: N/A
• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: I didn't try yet

Issue

Edited, see https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/2376#issuecomment-341637586
~Sometimes when I have Hyper app running, I lock (Win + L) my Windows machine + let the screen turn off (after 15 min of inactivity), and after returning to PC the Hyper app is not running (without any crash report on the screen). I have searched event log, appdata and temp folders but did not find any kind of Hyper app logs. May I kindly ask you for any ideas how to debug my issue?~

[albinekb]

Hi! Thanks for reporting 👍

There are several reports on similar things, but I don't know if it's connected to the issue you're describing, like:

https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/2168
https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1952

But AFAIK those have always shown themselves in logs or via crash logs.

This is probably different though... And the fact that you can't find any crash reports, that's really weird.. Wonder what kills it 🤔

One thing you could try to do if you want to, is to build & run from source, there's a lot more debug-logs etc in that one.

[albinekb]

Could it maybe be related to the display saving logic, there are some problems with that: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1869

Maybe a long shot too..

[peterdanis]

I have found out that the hyper app termination is not related to screen or display. It terminates every 5 hours for me. There is no crash report or anything, it just terminates silently.

_Left section of screenshot:_ Power on date and time. Hyper is starting automatically with Windows (via shortcut in Startup folder).
_Right section of screenshot:_ I run Powershell as shell in Hyper, it writes an event to event log when it transitions from "available" to "stopped" state.

I think updatePlugins is failing here. I did not find anything other running in 5h interval.

In app/plugins.js:
```
// otherwise update plugins every 5 hours
setInterval(updatePlugins, ms('5h'));

[chabou]

@peterdanis Thank your for your feedback and to have pointed this out!

Can you try to reduce this update interval to see if this is constant?

[peterdanis]

Thanks for suggestion. It was caused by hyperterm-overlay plugin.