Balena Etcher is broken

[gbtb]

Describe the bug

Balena etcher app starts with blank white screen

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install etcher 1.6.0 from unstable nixpkgs
2. Run app
3. ...

Expected behavior

It should open UI with buttons etc...

Screenshots

Additional context

Logs in devtools of etcher:

index.css:1 Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND
gui.js:7117 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'app')
    at appPath (gui.js:7117)
    at Object.exports.CODE_TO_ERRNO.E2BIG (gui.js:7119)
    at __webpack_require__ (gui.js:72085)
    at Object.__webpack_modules__.constructor (gui.js:5691)
    at __webpack_require__ (gui.js:72085)
    at Object.__webpack_modules__.DiskWrapper.DiskWrapper (gui.js:5686)
    at __webpack_require__ (gui.js:72085)
    at Object.<anonymous> (gui.js:5587)
    at __webpack_require__ (gui.js:72085)
    at Object.defineProperty.value (gui.js:5401)

Logs in terminal:

[Axios v1.6.0] Transitional option 'clarifyTimeoutError' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
[Axios v1.6.0] Transitional option 'forcedJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
[Axios v1.6.0] Transitional option 'silentJSONParsing' has been deprecated since v1.0.0 and will be removed in the near future
(node:14552) electron: The default of nativeWindowOpen is deprecated and will be changing from false to true in Electron 15.  See https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/28511 for more information.
(Use `electron --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
ready-to-show: 1.119s
(node:14552) Warning: No such label 'ready-to-show' for console.timeEnd()

Notify maintainers

@Shou

Metadata

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the result.

[user@system:~]$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
- system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.10.88, NixOS, 22.05 (Quokka)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.5.1`
 - channels(root): `"home-manager-21.05, nixos-22.05pre342264.5b091d4fbe3, unstable-22.05pre340506.5c37ad87222"`
 - channels(artem): `"home-manager-21.05, nixos-22.05pre340506.5c37ad87222"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

[brocaar]

I can reproduce the same issue using NixOS 21.11:

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.10.93, NixOS, 21.11 (Porcupine)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.3.16`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-21.11.335526.6c4b9f1a2fd, home-manager"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

[eliandoran]

The issue is that Balena Etcher is not compatible with the version of Electron with which it was packaged on NixOS. The PR #158715 fixes this, but please be aware that it now depends on Electron 12, which is marked as End-Of-Life.

[davidak]

The issue was fixed:

But it is reported to be insecure, so you have to run it like this:

NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE=1 nix run nixpkgs#etcher --impure

[polypoyo]

Etcher has since been removed from nixpkgs due to the electron issue. If you still need to use it, you can run from an old version of nixpkgs:

NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE=1 nix run github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-20.09#etcher --impure