Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous>

[Arcanemagus]

Description

When Atom is closed an error is printed to the CLI it was launched from about an attempt to call to a renderer window that has been closed.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Atom
2. Close Atom

Expected behavior:

No errors printed to the terminal.

Actual behavior:

The following error stack is printed to the terminal:

Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:65:20.
Error: Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:65:20.
 at WebContents.callIntoRenderer (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\electron.asar\browser\rpc-server.js:190:19)
 at emitOne (events.js:101:20)
 at WebContents.emit (events.js:188:7)

Reproduces how often:

100% of the time, whether in safe mode or not.

Versions

Windows 10 x64

Build from atom/atom@4cbff30.

Atom : 1.18.0-dev-4cbff3044 x64
Electron: 1.3.15
Chrome : 52.0.2743.82
Node : 6.5.0

github@0.0.2 (bundled in the build)

Additional Information

Whether the github panel is opened or not doesn't seem to matter. The project that was open had 2 changed files.

[BinaryMuse]

This is only when you quit Atom, not when only closing a single window, correct?

[Arcanemagus]

Correct.

[BinaryMuse]

Okay. This is a race down in Electron's RPC code. I'll provide some more context tomorrow but I'm not sure of an easy fix yet.

[BinaryMuse]

@Arcanemagus Just confirming — you said that this was fixed for you, right?

[Arcanemagus]

I wasn't seeing it on a build based on atom/atom@30ee14b, although you pointed out seeing a similar message in the build from that commit here.

[Arcanemagus]

Hmmm, this is actually back on a build of atom/atom@fb9fd2f.

[Arcanemagus]

Stack trace has changed slightly:

Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:70:22.
Error: Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released. Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:70:22.
 at WebContents.callIntoRenderer (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\electron.asar\browser\rpc-server.js:190:19)
 at emitOne (events.js:101:20)
 at WebContents.emit (events.js:188:7)

[Arcanemagus]

Here's a stack trace from a build based on merging the Electron 1.6 and Node.js 7 branches into master:

Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released.
Function provided here: Object.<anonymous> (C:\Temp\atom\out\Atom x64\resources\app\node_modules\github\lib\worker.js:70:22
Remote event names: destroyed, crashed

Looks like it might have a tad more information, likely due to the Electron update.

[Arcanemagus]

Interestingly on the released Atom v1.18.0-beta0 I don't see a message from this, but if I build the same commit I see the stack trace from #769 (comment) so there must be some sort of wrapper in the installer version that is hiding that message.

[eicksl]

Having the same issue.. Did you ever resolve it?

[pachevalier]

I had the same error. My trick is to change the rights for the ~/.atom/nohub.out file.

$ sudo chown username ~/username/.atom/nohup.out

Hope it helps.

[zonggen]

In the settings, there's an option "Restore Previous Windows on Start". If you set it to "no", it will fix the problem, at least for me. Hope this would help.

[lamikk]

@pachevalier Hi, I'm getting same error message and I'm not able to solve it.
@anonymousrice solution didn't work for me.
Could you explain it in more detail please?
I'm sorry to bother with a (probably) newbie question but I'm jut starting with all of this.
Thank you

[popod]

Exactly same error for me with electron 3.0.10 on macOS Mojave.

electron Attempting to call a function in a renderer window that has been closed or released.
 Function provided here: makePdf.js:150:13
 Remote event names: closed