[Nix-dev] Atom 1.0.11 failing to start (need help with debugging)

[Wout Mertens]

To give you an idea of what can go wrong with atom, check out
https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/7877

Quite stunning, the amount of breakage you can get by simply upgrading
seemingly orthogonal packages. There are just a huge amount of moving parts
I suppose.

Wout.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2015, 22:47 Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, what I mean is that there could be some bug in Node that is
> triggered... So using a diffferent Node might fix it.
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 7:12 PM Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
>
>> It's using bundled nodejs, so that should be the same... It appears that
>> one of the javascript libraries tried to compile with native code and
>> fails. But why does it succeed for some people but not for others?
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Wout Mertens <wout.mertens at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Shot in the dark: did you try varying nodejs versions?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015, 15:40 Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying to upgrade Atom for our release and for some reason
>>>> it's failing to start under SOME circumstances.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried running Atom in different user, different directory.
>>>>
>>>> Steps to reproduce (please report if it works for you and under which
>>>> nixos-version):
>>>>
>>>> $ git checkout atom_1_0_11
>>>> $ nix-build -A atom
>>>> $ $ env -i DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH"
>>>> /nix/store/s5xwlnxlzxfb5zllbzmrnybmp72iw1gz-atom-1.0.11/bin/atom
>>>>
>>>> Original PR was https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/9605 and I can
>>>> successfully run Atom 1.0, but only when I run 1.0.11 it fails to run.
>>>>
>>>> Domen
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>>> --
>>>
>>> Wout.
>>> (typed on mobile, excuse terseness)
>>>
>>
>> --
>
> Wout.
> (typed on mobile, excuse terseness)
>
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Wout.
(typed on mobile, excuse terseness)
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