Hyper: Not launching at all on CentOS 7 ("Javascript error occurred in the main process")

[darkvertex]

• [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: CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)

• Hyper.app version: 2.0.0 I guess? I installed from the rpm hyper-2.0.0.x86_64.rpm
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: N/A -- it never generated one because it crashes immediately.
• Relevant information from devtools _(CMD+ALT+I on macOS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere)_: N/A
• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Yes.

Issue

I'm on CentOS and after installing the rpm (hyper-2.0.0.x86_64.rpm) as soon as I run hyper I am immediately greeted by an error that says:

A Javascript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'resize' of undefined
    at Server.Window.rpc.on (/opt/Hyper/resources/app.asar/ui/window.js:146:14)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at Server.emit (events.js:210:7)
    at Server.ipcListener (/opt/Hyper/resources/app.asar/rpc.js:33:11)
    at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:213:7)
    at WebContents.<anonymous> (/opt/Hyper/resources/electron.asar/browser/api/web-contents.js:266:13)
    at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
    at WebContents.emit (events.js:213:7)

and when I press OK, the Hyper window disappears and quits.

If I run hyper --help from a normal terminal, it outputs the help, so it seems something broken UI-wise.

[chabou]

So issue is located here: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/blob/57c735cb6da09a109f43d39dae98beede44fa5b5/app/ui/window.js#L146

I really don't know why the session is not found. We can make a test like: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/blob/57c735cb6da09a109f43d39dae98beede44fa5b5/app/ui/window.js#L127-L133
But I'm curious to understand why it happens only in CentOS...

[wasabigeek]

@chabou I'm getting this for Ubuntu 16 too. Usually after a few restarts it works, but majorly annoying - looking forward to #2940!

[chabou]

The fix will be shipped with our next canary 🎉

[JSybrandt]

This is happening on windows 10 atm.

[asrinagesh]

Also happening on OSx

[darkvertex]

I installed the canary (hyper.x86_64 0:2.1.0_canary.2-3069) and now the hyper command doesn't exist:

> hyper
hyper: Command not found.

Is this normal for canary releases? Doing sudo repoquery -l hyper lists nothing, as if no files had been installed. Are we positive the rpm is valid?

[darkvertex]

For my own curiosity I also tried the .AppImage file. After I chmod +x it and run it, say no to the "Do you want to integrate with system and icons?" prompt, it opens briefly and quits right away.

The terminal I ran it from doesn't hint at much...

First run:

 > ~/Downloads/hyper-2.1.0-canary.2-x86_64.AppImage
installed: X-AppImage-BuildId=f61a3660-418c-11a8-3bd5-8d88e2a963bd image: X-AppImage-BuildId=1c5ab680-70a2-11a8-3189-f531660e7e39
Disabling Chromium GPU blacklist
running in prod mode
electron will open file:///tmp/.mount_hyper-KmQJMW/app/resources/app.asar/index.html
Setting Hyper as default client for ssh:// protocol
Checking for notification messages

and it quits. Then I try again:

> ~/Downloads/hyper-2.1.0-canary.2-x86_64.AppImage
installed: X-AppImage-BuildId=f61a3660-418c-11a8-3bd5-8d88e2a963bd image: X-AppImage-BuildId=1c5ab680-70a2-11a8-3189-f531660e7e39
Disabling Chromium GPU blacklist
running in prod mode
electron will open file:///tmp/.mount_hyper-3wKp6l/app/resources/app.asar/index.html
Setting Hyper as default client for ssh:// protocol
Checking for notification messages
No matching notification messages

and quits again, but this time it printed one extra line, No matching notification messages. Not sure if that hints at anything.