Roastime crashing

Software
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I am roasting on Debian Testing with latest RoasTime 4, no problems so far. My last successful roast was on May 9th.

When I wanted to roast yesterday, however, RoasTime crashed with a SEGFAULT in the Chromium process. I am not 100% sure if it was right away or after the usual update-restart. Anyway, it seems to have something to do with window size. When I reduce window size to

{"width":1500,"height":1048,"x":10,"y":32,"isMaximized":false,"isFullScreen":false,"displayBounds":{"x":0,"y":0,"width":1920,"height":1080}}

then the app starts. The weird thing is that I had it running with a wider window as well, but when I tried to find the breaking window size I had to go down further than before. That is at some point it worked with width 1600, but now it doesn’t.
Before I had the window maximized, but when I do that now the app crashes right away.

Any ideas what’s going on here?

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On windows there is a file called “window-state.json” which saves the last state of the window (not sure about Linux). Perhaps this is corrupted or set out of bounds? You could try deleting / changing it. On windows it is found in: …\AppData\Roaming\RoasTime

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Actually, I edited that file in order to try out different window sizes. You can see the full content of a working file quoted in my original message.

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@sturmdcwm Which specific version are you running on the main process? Is it 4.6.36? I did a large upgrade of Electron in the latest version, so I wonder if there was a breaking change with this.

Does this only happen on startup? I assume you can make the window bigger after the fact?

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Yes, I run 4.6.36. I can resize the window at will while the app is running, but then it segfaults on restart. However, maximizing the windows crashes the app right away.

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FYI - I found this is a bug in electron itself: [Bug]: SIGSEGV crash when maximizing window · Issue #41839 · electron/electron · GitHub

Looks like it was fixed very recently, so I will test, update and release a new version for Linux.

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Thanks for looking into this.
Any timeline for when we can expect the new release, @mcaillio ?

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Me too - I am also hoping for a new linux release “soon”. Any update?
I can work around the segmentation fault, but I can’t shrink the window vertically, it is too big such that the roaster controls fall below the screen, so I can’t control the roaster.

Slightly related - where are release notes or notifications of releases for linux posted? Is the only way to see if there is a new release, to download it and see if the number in the appimage file is higher than what we downloaded last time?

Thanks,
John

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@jfree23 You can subscribe to the GitHub release page in your RSS reader: Release notes from roastime-release

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@sturmdcwm @jfree23 Sorry for the late reply. Working on a release now. Been out of commission for about a month due to traveling and a flooded home.

EDIT: Release linux-x64-prod-v4.7.0 · roastworld/roastime-release · GitHub