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AutoUpdater: Electron blocks ShipIt process on macOS

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Version: 20.28.2
Updater version: 3.1.1
Electron version: 3.0.0-beta6

Target: darwin x64

It seems that the electron process with the given versions is blocked somehow while updating, ShipIt is not able to replace the application files. The update cannot be applied unless you completely quit the application and wait for ShipIt to be finished.

If ShipIt is not completely finished and you start the Application again the app will be broken.

I downgraded electron-builder to 20.26.0 and electron-updater to 3.0.3 (our last working configuration) and everything works fine with those versions.

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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ozoonercommented, Sep 3, 2018

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miguelpinto98commented, Aug 27, 2018

I have the same problem.

electron-builder: 20.27.1
electron-update: 3.1.1
electron: 2.0.6

After the new version is downloaded in background I get Error: No update available, can't quit and install. The app stop and I need to restart to complete the update.

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