Removing temporary directory on Windows fails with no error

Running on a Windows Server 2008 build agent the packager fails to generate artifacts with no error

Which version of electron-packager are you using?

Tested on both 7.2.0 and 7.3.0. The exact same config was working a few days ago so perhaps something has changed in the dependency tree?

What CLI arguments are you passing? Alternatively, if you are using the API, what parameters are you passing to the packager() function?

const defaultPackageConf = {
  'app-bundle-id': packageJSON.name,
  'app-category-type': 'public.app-category.healthcare-fitness',
  'app-copyright': `Copyright © ${(new Date()).getFullYear()} ${packageJSON.author.name}, All rights reserved.`, // eslint-disable-line
  'app-version': packageJSON.version,
  arch: 'ia32',
  asar: true,
  'build-version': packageJSON.version,
  dir: '.',
  icon: './build/assets/img/main',
  ignore: ignoreFn,
  name: packageJSON.productName,
  out: './dist/',
  overwrite: true,
  platform: 'win32',
  prune: true,
  tmpdir,
  version,
  'version-string': {
    CompanyName: packageJSON.author.name,
    FileDescription: packageJSON.productName,
    ProductName: packageJSON.productName,
    InternalName: packageJSON.productName,
  },
};

What version of Electron are you building with?

Tried building with Electron 1.2.x and 1.3.x

What is the host platform are you running electron-packager on?

Windows Server 2008, x64

What target platform(s)/architecture(s) are you building for?

Windows x86

Is there a stack trace in the error message you’re seeing?

No, there is no error, it just stops. When running with DEBUG enabled the extract-zip module declares itself complete then a second later the process exits with exit code 0.

[neonhomer]

We just ran into this issue where one of our Windows 10 machines would stall with no error or any information like @MarshallOfSound. After some extensive debugging we found that fs-extra was silently failing when trying to remove the tempBase folder.

We cleared out the C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp folder and it works fine now.

[elron]

Hello This problem happened to me as well, using these versions (windows):

  "devDependencies": {
    "electron": "13.2.0",
    "electron-packager": "15.1.0"
  }

and the solution for me was:

1. In the Task Manager, I closed all programs (that might use TEMP files), and most importantly VScode and Node processes.
2. Then I go to the windows %temp% folder (Windows+R and then writing %temp% and hitting enter)
3. Permanently delete everything possible in that folder
4. Then I deleted the node_modules folder from my project and reinstalled npm i.

When I rebuilt using electron-packager, the problem disappeared and the project is compiled!