Mac OS Sierra - app window not visible

[dkanas]

I downloaded and installed Etherwall, then I ran it and the icon appears in the dock, but there's no app window visible. I tried redownloading and reinstalling, but it didn't help. Any idea what might be wrong or how could I debug it?

[almindor]

I'm aware of this issue, but can't reproduce on my mac books. One of my friends reported the same but he didn't get any error indication. I'm going to try and compare the plugins and libraries packed together in the older versions of .app to see if something went missing.

Do you know if any older version of etherwall worked ok for you?

[almindor]

I changed one bit that might be related, can you try downloading from http://downloads.etherwall.com/etherwall_test.dmg and see if that starts up?

[dkanas]

Unfortunately it was the first version I was using on a Mac, downloading the test version, I will let you know in a moment

[dkanas]

The test version behaves the same, I looked into the mac console, maybe those info can help somehow

[almindor]

Can you please provide your exact mac os x version?

[dkanas]

It's 10.12.4

[almindor]

Hmm the errors in that log all point to things that should've been fixed in mac os x 10.12.2+ so not sure where else to look. Nothing in there really goes into app logic, I think this is some sort of QT5/mac issue. I have two mac book pros on version 10.12.4 and get no such errors on either of them.

Not sure where else to look here. Are you able to try and compile/run etherwall from source using Qt5/QtCreator?

NOTE: if so please use Qt version 5.7.x at highest as 5.8 has other issues that prevent etherwall from working.

[dkanas]

I will try to do it when I will have some more free time, I just updated to 10.12.5, but it also didn't help

[almindor]

Can you also try running an older version for example: 1.3.0

See if the older versions still work for you.

[dkanas]

1.3.0 works for me :)

[almindor]

Cool, I think it might be qt5.7+ maybe they broke something in the macdeployqt tool.

Can you please try this test version?

[dkanas]

The app loads up, but there is a problem with geth (probably also on the 1.3.0 version, because I got an error there, too)

[almindor]

Ah good to know, This version used geth 1.6.1 and the 1.3.0 version used some old geth which would explain these.

Can you please try redownloading latest from the webpage again? I repackaged 1.4.9 with Qt5.6 which should hopefully have fixed the issue now. If it did please close this thread. Thanks

SHA256 sum should be df2c9dcada47f18ec877385ce7f33d4571a470db62feab6d80ae49c9eece479d

[dkanas]

It starts, but the problem with geth is still there. It does work when I start up the geth from homebrew first though.

[almindor]

Hmm interesting, I wonder if there's an actual binary incompatibility between our macs then. The geth packaged with etherwall is 1.5.9 from homebrew.

For a workaround you can change your geth path in etherwall settings to point to /usr/local/bin/geth or wherever else you might have a "native" geth binary.

I've opened a new issue #21 you can monitor that there. I'll close this one as the qt5/plugin problems are now fixed.

[almindor]

Actually if you're still getting notifications here, can you send me your geth version that worked for you? I want to see if there's a difference.

[dkanas]

here's the output of geth version

Version: 1.6.1-stable
Git Commit: 021c3c281629baf2eae967dc2f0a7532ddfdc1fb
Architecture: amd64
Protocol Versions: [63 62]
Network Id: 1
Go Version: go1.8.1
Operating System: darwin
GOPATH=/Users/user/go
GOROOT=/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.8.1/libexec