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Hangs on OSX

See original GitHub issue

After launching, ipfs-desktop just hangs after loading in the menubar. If I drop down the GUI I see the pulsing circle loader but nothing happens and nothing shows up in the log. I can kill it by clicking the “Pin” tab which loads the “Something wrong happened” error message.

Node: v9.3.0 NPM: v5.6.0 OSX: 10.13.3

$ npm start

> ipfs-desktop@0.4.0 start /Users/stevenrecio/Projects/ipfs/ipfs-desktop
> electron-forge start

✔ Checking your system
✔ Locating Application
✔ Preparing native dependencies: 3 / 3
✔ Launching Application
2018-03-27 18:23:57.272 Electron[833:19193] *** WARNING: Textured window <AtomNSWindow: 0x7fed2acf16b0> is getting an implicitly transparent titlebar. This will break when linking against newer SDKs. Use NSWindow's -titlebarAppearsTransparent=YES instead.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! ipfs-desktop@0.4.0 start: `electron-forge start`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the ipfs-desktop@0.4.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/stevenrecio/.npm/_logs/2018-03-27T22_26_07_215Z-debug.log
$ cat /Users/stevenrecio/Library/Application\ Support/ipfs-desktop/logs/error.log
cat: /Users/stevenrecio/Library/Application Support/ipfs-desktop/logs/error.log: No such file or directory
$ cat /Users/stevenrecio/.npm/_logs/2018-03-27T22_26_07_215Z-debug.log
0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/Cellar/node/9.3.0_1/bin/node',
1 verbose cli   '/usr/local/bin/npm',
1 verbose cli   'start' ]
2 info using npm@5.6.0
3 info using node@v9.3.0
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle ipfs-desktop@0.4.0~prestart: ipfs-desktop@0.4.0
6 info lifecycle ipfs-desktop@0.4.0~start: ipfs-desktop@0.4.0
7 verbose lifecycle ipfs-desktop@0.4.0~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle ipfs-desktop@0.4.0~start: PATH: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/node-gyp-bin:/Users/stevenrecio/Projects/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/node_modules/.bin:/Users/stevenrecio/.npm-packages/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin
9 verbose lifecycle ipfs-desktop@0.4.0~start: CWD: /Users/stevenrecio/Projects/ipfs/ipfs-desktop
10 silly lifecycle ipfs-desktop@0.4.0~start: Args: [ '-c', 'electron-forge start' ]
11 silly lifecycle ipfs-desktop@0.4.0~start: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
12 info lifecycle ipfs-desktop@0.4.0~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: ipfs-desktop@0.4.0 start: `electron-forge start`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:285:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:159:13)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:159:13)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:943:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:220:5)
14 verbose pkgid ipfs-desktop@0.4.0
15 verbose cwd /Users/stevenrecio/Projects/ipfs/ipfs-desktop
16 verbose Darwin 17.4.0
17 verbose argv "/usr/local/Cellar/node/9.3.0_1/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "start"
18 verbose node v9.3.0
19 verbose npm  v5.6.0
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error ipfs-desktop@0.4.0 start: `electron-forge start`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the ipfs-desktop@0.4.0 start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]