"IO error: /.../app.asar/dist/electron/db/LOCK: Not a directory", -- Electron Build

First off, there’s a strong chance this is user error, but I’m out of options!

I’m building my Electron app using electron-packager and my version of electron is 2.0.5.

When I am running in dev mode, I have no issues with levelup.

When I run the package scripts, I get the following stack trace:

 Uncaught (in promise) 
err {type: "OpenError", name: "OpenError", cause: undefined, message: "IO error: /Users/joemccann/Documents/crypto/sterli…s/app.asar/dist/electron/db/LOCK: Not a directory", stack: "OpenError: IO error: /Users/joemccann/Documents/cr…es/abstract-leveldown/abstract-leveldown.js:41:14"}
cause
:
undefined
message
:
"IO error: /Users/joemccann/Documents/crypto/sterling-app/build/Sterling-darwin-x64/Sterling.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist/electron/db/LOCK: Not a directory"
name
:
"OpenError"
stack
:
"OpenError: IO error: /Users/joemccann/Documents/crypto/sterling-app/build/Sterling-darwin-x64/Sterling.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist/electron/db/LOCK: Not a directory↵    at /Users/joemccann/Documents/crypto/sterling-app/build/Sterling-darwin-x64/Sterling.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/levelup/lib/levelup.js:87:23↵    at /Users/joemccann/Documents/crypto/sterling-app/build/Sterling-darwin-x64/Sterling.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/abstract-leveldown/abstract-leveldown.js:41:14↵    at /Users/joemccann/Documents/crypto/sterling-app/build/Sterling-darwin-x64/Sterling.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/deferred-leveldown/deferred-leveldown.js:20:21↵    at /Users/joemccann/Documents/crypto/sterling-app/build/Sterling-darwin-x64/Sterling.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/abstract-leveldown/abstract-leveldown.js:41:14↵    at /Users/joemccann/Documents/crypto/sterling-app/build/Sterling-darwin-x64/Sterling.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/abstract-leveldown/abstract-leveldown.js:41:14"
type
:
"OpenError"
__proto__
:
Error

The package scripts are the defaults set here:

https://github.com/vuetifyjs/electron/blob/master/template/.electron-vue/build.js

If there is more I can post that can be helpful in me tracking down this bug just let me know.

Thanks!

[joemccann]

Found the issue. During the package step I have asar: true for electron-packager and I have my leveldb path set to be inside the asar folder, which won’t work.

I changed the path for the db to be created outside of the src directory and all is well.

[joemccann]

No worries.

I linked to the webpack build file above.

This is the project:

https://github.com/vuetifyjs/electron/tree/master/template

It’s electron build of vuetify

I’ll try to create a test repo

Thanks!

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 19:18 Lars-Magnus Skog [e-mail] wrote:

Sorry, but I still have no idea how this project works or where to start.

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