Ipfs-desktop: Error when have multiple API or Gateway addresses

[alanshaw]

2019-05-24T12:07:10.926Z error: Error: 36:68: execution error: System Events got an error: Can’t get login item "IPFS Desktop". (-1728)

    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/applescript/lib/applescript.js:49:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:240:12)
2019-09-06T11:36:35.896Z error: [ipfsd] addr must be a string, Buffer, or another Multiaddr

[alanshaw]

My IPFS config. Looks like it's something to do with the multiple addresses I have setup for API/Gateway?

⨎ cat ~/.ipfs/config 
{
  "API": {
    "HTTPHeaders": {
      "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials": [
        "true"
      ],
      "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": [
        "PUT",
        "POST",
        "GET"
      ],
      "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": [
        "http://example.com"
      ],
      "Server": [
        "go-ipfs/0.4.17"
      ]
    }
  },
  "Addresses": {
    "API": [
      "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001",
      "/ip6/::1/tcp/5002"
    ],
    "Announce": [],
    "Gateway": ["/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/3003", "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/3004"],
    "NoAnnounce": [],
    "Swarm": [
      "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/3000",
      "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/3001/ws"
    ]
  },
  "Bootstrap": [
    "/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/ipfs/QmNnooDu7bfjPFoTZYxMNLWUQJyrVwtbZg5gBMjTezGAJN",
    "/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/ipfs/QmQCU2EcMqAqQPR2i9bChDtGNJchTbq5TbXJJ16u19uLTa",
    "/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/ipfs/QmbLHAnMoJPWSCR5Zhtx6BHJX9KiKNN6tpvbUcqanj75Nb",
    "/dnsaddr/bootstrap.libp2p.io/ipfs/QmcZf59bWwK5XFi76CZX8cbJ4BhTzzA3gU1ZjYZcYW3dwt",
    "/ip4/104.131.131.82/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmaCpDMGvV2BGHeYERUEnRQAwe3N8SzbUtfsmvsqQLuvuJ",
    "/ip4/104.236.179.241/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLPppuBtQSGwKDZT2M73ULpjvfd3aZ6ha4oFGL1KrGM",
    "/ip4/128.199.219.111/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLSafTMBsPKadTEgaXctDQVcqN88CNLHXMkTNwMKPnu",
    "/ip4/104.236.76.40/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLV4Bbm51jM9C4gDYZQ9Cy3U6aXMJDAbzgu2fzaDs64",
    "/ip4/178.62.158.247/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLer265NRgSp2LA3dPaeykiS1J6DifTC88f5uVQKNAd",
    "/ip6/2604:a880:1:20::203:d001/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLPppuBtQSGwKDZT2M73ULpjvfd3aZ6ha4oFGL1KrGM",
    "/ip6/2400:6180:0:d0::151:6001/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLSafTMBsPKadTEgaXctDQVcqN88CNLHXMkTNwMKPnu",
    "/ip6/2604:a880:800:10::4a:5001/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLV4Bbm51jM9C4gDYZQ9Cy3U6aXMJDAbzgu2fzaDs64",
    "/ip6/2a03:b0c0:0:1010::23:1001/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmSoLer265NRgSp2LA3dPaeykiS1J6DifTC88f5uVQKNAd",
    "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4002/ipfs/QmSeJDTNXyVtGCKyjZ79HGknuLaEdttm7VreA1cwefNa39"
  ],
  "Datastore": {
    "BloomFilterSize": 0,
    "GCPeriod": "1h",
    "HashOnRead": false,
    "Spec": {
      "mounts": [
        {
          "child": {
            "path": "blocks",
            "shardFunc": "/repo/flatfs/shard/v1/next-to-last/2",
            "sync": true,
            "type": "flatfs"
          },
          "mountpoint": "/blocks",
          "prefix": "flatfs.datastore",
          "type": "measure"
        },
        {
          "child": {
            "compression": "none",
            "path": "datastore",
            "type": "levelds"
          },
          "mountpoint": "/",
          "prefix": "leveldb.datastore",
          "type": "measure"
        }
      ],
      "type": "mount"
    },
    "StorageGCWatermark": 90,
    "StorageMax": "10GB"
  },
  "Discovery": {
    "MDNS": {
      "Enabled": true,
      "Interval": 10
    }
  },
  "Experimental": {
    "FilestoreEnabled": false,
    "Libp2pStreamMounting": false,
    "P2pHttpProxy": false,
    "QUIC": false,
    "ShardingEnabled": false,
    "UrlstoreEnabled": false
  },
  "Gateway": {
    "APICommands": null,
    "HTTPHeaders": {
      "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": [
        "X-Requested-With",
        "Range"
      ],
      "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": [
        "GET"
      ],
      "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": [
        "*"
      ]
    },
    "PathPrefixes": [],
    "RootRedirect": "",
    "Writable": false
  },
  "Identity": {
    "PeerID": "QmaFBzZTyz3ibDumf9kUTno7xSFoa36ateG7uoithtY855",
    "PrivKey": "[REDACTED]"
  },
  "Ipns": {
    "RecordLifetime": "",
    "RepublishPeriod": "",
    "ResolveCacheSize": 128
  },
  "Mounts": {
    "FuseAllowOther": false,
    "IPFS": "/ipfs",
    "IPNS": "/ipns"
  },
  "Pubsub": {
    "DisableSigning": false,
    "Router": "",
    "StrictSignatureVerification": false
  },
  "Reprovider": {
    "Interval": "12h",
    "Strategy": "all"
  },
  "Routing": {
    "Type": "dht"
  },
  "Swarm": {
    "AddrFilters": null,
    "ConnMgr": {
      "GracePeriod": "20s",
      "HighWater": 900,
      "LowWater": 600,
      "Type": "basic"
    },
    "DisableBandwidthMetrics": false,
    "DisableNatPortMap": false,
    "DisableRelay": false,
    "EnableRelayHop": false
  }
}

[hacdias]

@alanshaw I believe the System Events error can be easily ignored (please try toggling Launch at login on settings to enable and disable to see if it seems to work). That error generally happens when we tell AutoLaunch to make sure it is disabled and it was never enabled so there it is not registered on the Login items. So can be ignored.

The true problem here is the ipfsd error I believe. As far as I can tell just by looking at your settings is that we assume config.Addresses.API/Gateway is a string and forgot the possibility of it being an array!

I will take a look at this ASAP.

[hacdias]

@alanshaw go-ipfs config does not say API and Gateway can be arrays. Can they?

[alanshaw]

Since go-ipfs 0.4.18 - https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-config/pull/11

Any chance you can send a PR to fix the go-ipfs config documentation?

[hacdias]

I will! Thanks!

[hacdias]

Hmm... Currently we check if the ports are available and suggest updating them if they're busy. Now I'm wondering... an array as the API or Gateway address implicates an infinite amount of port collisions...

Currently we have dialogs for:

1. API+Gateway collision.
2. API collision.
3. Gateway collision.

I'm wondering if it's better to show a dialog per port collision with a button saying 'CHANGE ALL' and another with something like 'I'll solve it myself, dont ask more'. I doubt there will be many anyways... but it can happen! What do you think?