No UI when launching IPFS-Desktop

• OS: macOS
• Version of IPFS Desktop 0.13.2

Describe the bug Can’t start IPFS Desktop. No UI. The daemon starts running in the back so as the IPFS-Desktop process, but nothing happens. Tried both the .dmg from releases and through homebrew.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run IPFS-Desktop from the terminal

Expected behavior Start the UI

Terminal Output

Error: ENOTDIR: not a directory, mkdir '/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/countly-sdk-nodejs/data'
    at Object.mkdirSync (fs.js:823:3)
    at Object.Countly.init (/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/countly-sdk-nodejs/lib/countly.js:157:24)
    at module.exports (/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/src/analytics.js:6:11)
    at run (/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/src/index.js:65:11)
Error: ENOENT, node_modules/countly-sdk-nodejs/data/__cly_id.json not found in /Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar
    at createError (electron/js2c/asar.js:111:17)
    at Object.func [as openSync] (electron/js2c/asar.js:146:27)
    at Object.writeFileSync (fs.js:1265:35)
    at storeSet (/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/countly-sdk-nodejs/lib/countly.js:1337:16)
    at Object.Countly.init (/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/countly-sdk-nodejs/lib/countly.js:171:21)
    at module.exports (/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/src/analytics.js:6:11)
    at run (/Applications/IPFS Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/src/index.js:65:11)
2021-01-16T14:06:14.069Z info: [web ui] window ready
2021-01-16T14:06:14.083Z info: [tray] starting
2021-01-16T14:06:14.115Z info: [tray] started
2021-01-16T14:06:14.115Z info: [ipfsd] start daemon STARTED
2021-01-16T14:06:14.304Z info: [daemon] removing api file
2021-01-16T14:06:21.911Z info: [ipfsd] start daemon FINISHED 7.795242546000052s
Checking for update
2021-01-16T14:06:21.986Z info: [ipfs on path] no action taken
2021-01-16T14:06:21.986Z info: [launch on startup] disabled
Update for version 0.13.2 is not available (latest version: 0.13.2, downgrade is disallowed).
2021-01-16T14:06:23.317Z info: [updater] update not available

Extra logs error.log is empty

2021-01-18T21:00:43.730Z info: [meta] logs can be found on /Users/banjos/Library/Application Support/IPFS Desktop
2021-01-18T21:00:45.021Z info: [web ui] window ready
2021-01-18T21:00:45.021Z info: [tray] starting
2021-01-18T21:00:45.054Z info: [tray] started
2021-01-18T21:00:45.055Z info: [ipfsd] start daemon STARTED
2021-01-18T21:00:45.300Z info: [daemon] removing api file
2021-01-18T21:00:49.397Z info: [ipfsd] start daemon FINISHED 4.341990121006965s
2021-01-18T21:00:49.482Z info: [ipfs on path] no action taken
2021-01-18T21:00:49.482Z info: [launch on startup] disabled
2021-01-18T21:00:50.699Z info: [updater] update not available

[bruno-anjos]

Oh my god I’m so sorry 🤦 . I didn’t understand this was not supposed to be a default config. As a user, I believe the behaviour is a bit misleading. In my case it was even worse because, like you, I’m a macOS user and I have Dozer to hide icons in my menu bar, so the IPFS icon actually didn’t appear. I understand that the menu bar icon is indeed referenced in the README (multiple times) but I still believe that the expected should be to open the UI. Thank you very much for you help @jessicaschilling

[jessicaschilling]

@bruno-anjos Don’t apologize! You bring up a really good point. Just opened https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/issues/1741 if you’d like to keep an eye on it. 😊