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It's building again.

Currently, it isn't possible to build this version because https://github.com/signalapp/better-sqlite3/issues/6 too, so I can't debug that.

Despite updating Pacman, I received the build error below. Any suggestions on what to do?

==> Starting prepare()...
Updated Git hooks.
Git LFS initialized.
yarn install v1.22.19
[1/5] Resolving packages...
warning Resolution field "color-string@1.7.4" is incompatible with requested version "color-string@^1.9.0"
[2/5] Fetching packages...
error An unexpected error occurred: "Unexpected end of data".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/home/uSER/AUR/signal-desktop-beta/src/Signal-Desktop-5.50.0-beta.1/yarn-error.log".
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...

presidentwolf for some reason I was not notified in my email about your comment and had to discover that by myself, to come here and see that you have already fixed the problem... I have added libxcrypt-compat as makedepend because apparently it's only needed to build the .deb (which we don't care about) and doesn't affect our final binary.

Build is failing with:

[build:release   ]   • building        target=deb arch=x64 file=release/signal-desktop-beta_5.33.0-beta.1_amd64.deb
[build:release   ]   ⨯ cannot execute  cause=exit status 127
[build:release   ]                     errorOut=/home/person/.cache/electron-builder/fpm/fpm-1.9.3-2.3.1-linux-x86_64/lib/ruby/bin.real/ruby: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[build:release   ]     

Sounds like this was removed recently from glibc and is now available from libxcrypt-compat in AUR. Can we add this as a dep?

I also get a similar error that behaves the same.

This is what I see when trying to debug Signal Desktop Beta in a terminal emulator:

$ signal-desktop-beta 
Set Windows Application User Model ID (AUMID) { appUserModelId: 'org.whispersystems.signal-desktop-beta' }
NODE_ENV production
NODE_CONFIG_DIR /usr/lib/signal-desktop-beta/resources/app.asar/config
NODE_CONFIG {}
ALLOW_CONFIG_MUTATIONS undefined
HOSTNAME undefined
NODE_APP_INSTANCE undefined
SUPPRESS_NO_CONFIG_WARNING undefined
SIGNAL_ENABLE_HTTP undefined
userData: /home/uSER/.config/Signal Beta
config/get: Successfully read user config file
config/get: Successfully read ephemeral config file
making app single instance
{"level":30,"time":"2022-01-13T03:10:48.933Z","pid":747808,"hostname":"hOST","msg":"crashReporter: enabled"}
[748294:0112/221049.036925:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(376)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
^C^C

In beta releases from 5.29.0beta1 onwards I'm not able to launch the app, it doesn't crash as well, just hangs. I thought that it was something related to Nvidia and tried using the --disable-gpu flag but doesn't work as well. Here's the output log: https://paste.rs/sEw

Can someone confirm if it's working in your case? I'm still waiting for the -bin version to see if it works.

EDIT 12/01/2022 : -bin is working fine, so it's a problem here... I will continue investigating but I don't have much time, if someone can help me to find the root cause I would appreciate it.

EDIT 02/02/2022 (Nice date btw): The issue has been fixed, the problem was indeed on my side, it was the wrapper for /usr/bin/signal-desktop-beta created for 5.23 ¿? when the SQLite problem happened, it was causing the problem. Using a symlink directly fixed the problem:

Commit: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=signal-desktop-beta&id=cabb29a6b8709d293e5844d145dc935c6d446043

Edit: Never mind, I was long overdue for updating Arch Linux because this error disappeared afterwards.

I received an error in prepare() involving a component called playwright when I follow either choice in its directions:

[4/5] Building fresh packages...
[15/33] ⠐ playwright
[9/33] ⠈ playwright
[-/33] ⠈ waiting...
[-/33] ⠈ waiting...
error /home/uSER/AUR/signal-desktop-beta/src/Signal-Desktop-5.27.0-beta.1/node_modules/playwright: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node install.js
Arguments: 
Directory: /home/uSER/AUR/signal-desktop-beta/src/Signal-Desktop-5.27.0-beta.1/node_modules/playwright
Output:
/home/uSER/AUR/signal-desktop-beta/src/Signal-Desktop-5.27.0-beta.1/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/utils/registry.js:558
        throw new Error('\n' + (0, _utils.wrapInASCIIBox)([`An active lockfile is found at:`, ``, `  ${lockfilePath}`, ``, `Either:`, `- wait a few minutes if other Playwright is installing browsers in parallel`, `- remove lock manually with:`, ``, `    ${rmCommand} ${lockfilePath}`, ``, `<3 Playwright Team`].join('\n'), 1));
              ^

Error: 
╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ An active lockfile is found at:                                             ║
║                                                                             ║
║   /home/uSER/.cache/ms-playwright/__dirlock                                 ║
║                                                                             ║
║ Either:                                                                     ║
║ - wait a few minutes if other Playwright is installing browsers in parallel ║
║ - remove lock manually with:                                                ║
║                                                                             ║
║     rm -rf /home/uSER/.cache/ms-playwright/__dirlock                        ║
║                                                                             ║
║ <3 Playwright Team                                                          ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
    at Registry.install (/home/uSER/AUR/signal-desktop-beta/src/Signal-Desktop-5.27.0-beta.1/node_modules/playwright-core/lib/utils/registry.js:558



==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...

Hello, reclusivesage. Thanks for the heads-up, it has been fixed in -2, commit: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=signal-desktop-beta&id=fc9645f2a0da03618788f00d03fda2cc00844643