Auto-update fails with ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename

• Version: electron-builder@20.38.3 electron-updater@4.0.6

• Target: macOS 10.14.2

We’re seeing an error after the update is downloaded. This error is different from others open issues because it’s on rename, not chmod.

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Caches/tesla-updater/pending/temp-Command E-1.2.22-mac.zip' -> '/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Caches/tesla-updater/pending/Command E-1.2.22-mac.zip'

Our flow: The user hits a keyboard shortcut, we run autoUpdater.checkForUpdates();. Note: the user may hit they keyboard shortcut a lot of times (triggering parallel downloads?) The download starts. The download finishes, and we call autoUpdater.quitAndInstall();:

  autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', (updateInfo) => {
    log.info(`autoUpdater - Version ${updateInfo.version} downloaded, notify, quitting, installing, and relaunching`);

    const notification = new Notification({
      title: `Restarting Command E`,
      body: `Updating to version ${updateInfo.version}`,
    });
    notification.show();

    setTimeout(() => {
      log.info(`autoUpdater - Quitting and installing now`);
      autoUpdater.quitAndInstall();
    }, 3000);
  });

Here’s the full error:

Any ideas? Thanks for the work you put into this amazing library.

[sanzog03]

when you use both autoUpdater.autoDownload = true; and

autoUpdater.on("update-available", info => {
 autoUpdater.downloadUpdate();
});

in same code, both code tries to dowload the updates. Hence, a conflict arises when trying to install and quit the app.

so, set autoUpdater.autoDownload = false; and everything will work as it’s supposed to.

[TheFeelTrain]

I am having this same issue in my application on both Windows and Linux as well.

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod ‘/home/thefeeltrain/.cache/soonlauncher-updater/pending/temp-soonlauncher-4.4.1.AppImage’

This is also a copy of #3526