The app constantly crashing

[dimusik]

Expected Behavior

The app doesn't crash

Actual Behavior

After 30-60 seconds of running the app crashes without any message

Reproduction Steps

1. Open Insomnia
2. Choose collection of requests
3. Wait or perform request, switch between windows
4. The app crashes

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the issue tracker for this problem.

Additional Information

The problem occurred after the last update

Insomnia Version

9.3.0

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Operating System Version

Mac OS Ventura 13.6.6

Installation method

Downloaded from insomnia.rest

Last Known Working Insomnia version

No response

[subnetmarco]

@dimusik Was this happening even in 9.2, or did it start happening now in 9.3?

[dimusik]

@dimusik Was this happening even in 9.2, or did it start happening now in 9.3?

Hi @subnetmarco, it happening now, in 9.3, right after the update.

I updated the app today, reloaded it and it started crashing.

[subnetmarco]

@gatzjames @marckong what logs can we gather to understand why it crashes?

[filfreire]

@dimusik would you be able to provide us with the contents of these 2 files:

• ~/Library/Logs/Insomnia/main.log
• ~/Library/Logs/Insomnia/renderer.log

[dimusik]

Hi @filfreire, here's the contents of main.log

cat ~/Library/Logs/Insomnia/main.log [2024-06-28 15:41:23.350] [info] Running version 9.3.0 [2024-06-28 15:41:23.370] [info] [electron client protocol] successfully set default protocol 'insomnia://' [2024-06-28 15:41:38.594] [info] [fix] Running database repairs [2024-06-28 15:41:38.749] [info] [main] creating new window for MacOS activate event [2024-06-28 15:41:38.764] [info] [main] App not ready to "activate" yet [2024-06-28 15:41:39.302] [info] [db] Initialized DB at /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/insomnia.$TYPE.db [2024-06-28 15:41:39.302] [info] [db] Init responses DB [2024-06-28 15:41:39.303] [info] [db] Init websocket-responses DB [2024-06-28 15:41:39.309] [info] [localstorage] Initialized at /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/localStorage [2024-06-28 15:41:39.805] [info] [main] Loading file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/index.html [2024-06-28 15:41:40.126] [info] [main] Registering the hidden window restarting handler [2024-06-28 15:41:40.141] [info] [updater] Using url https://updates.insomnia.rest/builds/check/mac?v=9.3.0&app=com.insomnia.app&channel=stable [2024-06-28 15:41:40.142] [info] [updater] Checking for updates url=https://updates.insomnia.rest/builds/check/mac?v=9.3.0&app=com.insomnia.app&channel=stable [2024-06-28 15:41:42.129] [info] [updater] Not Available [2024-06-28 15:41:44.888] [info] [main] Window ready, handling command line arguments [ '/Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/MacOS/Insomnia' ] [2024-06-28 15:41:44.890] [info] [main] Check args and create windows [] [2024-06-28 15:41:44.890] [info] [main] Checking for newer version than 9.3.0 [2024-06-28 15:41:45.146] [info] [main] Found newer version [2024-06-28 15:41:45.149] [info] [main] Backup found at: /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/backups/9.3.0

And renderer.log
1 [2024-06-28 15:41:42.693] [info] [db] Initialized DB client 2 [2024-06-28 15:41:42.809] [info] [plugin] Loading 3 [2024-06-28 15:41:43.740] [info] [project] Fetching org_afe32a08-44f8-4f03-a5ae-cbefa8e11120 4 [2024-06-28 15:41:43.938] [info] [project] Redirecting to last visited project proj_default-project 5 [2024-06-28 15:41:43.953] [info] [FileSystemDriver] Initialized in "/Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/version-control" 6 [2024-06-28 15:41:50.658] [info] [sync] Activated project prj_c4f20d37b57c45e9bf5a63397085bde6 7 [2024-06-28 15:41:50.658] [info] [FileSystemDriver] Writing to /projects/prj_c4f20d37b57c45e9bf5a63397085bde6/meta.json 8 [2024-06-28 15:41:50.659] [info] [FileSystemDriver] Writing to /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/version-control/projects/prj_c4f20d37b57c45e9bf5a63397085bde6/meta.json.af450218-d9f6-4b03-86e3-5122d8fdddc7.tmp then renaming to /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/version-control/projects/prj_c4f20d37b57c45e9bf5a63397085bde6/meta.json 9 [2024-06-28 15:41:50.770] [info] [sync] Activated project prj_c4f20d37b57c45e9bf5a63397085bde6 10 [2024-06-28 15:41:50.770] [info] [FileSystemDriver] Writing to /projects/prj_c4f20d37b57c45e9bf5a63397085bde6/meta.json 11 [2024-06-28 15:41:50.771] [info] [FileSystemDriver] Writing to /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/version-control/projects/prj_c4f20d37b57c45e9bf5a63397085bde6/meta.json.85bc7570-f3a4-4319-9ad1-b49b910ea43f.tmp then renaming to /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Insomnia/version-control/projects/prj_c4f20d37b57c45e9bf5a63397085bde6/meta.json

[dimusik]

Also looked over the system logs and here's what I found:

Process - spindump, Insomnia [57192]: slow hid response: not sampling due to conditions 0x80208102

From process insomnia, last message was the following

LSExceptions shared instance invalidated for timeout.

After that I'm getting messages from runningboardd

[app<application.com.insomnia.app.232272091.232272097(501)>:57192] termination reported by launchd (2, 5, 5)

UPD

Also noticed the following messages by runningboardd:

Invalidating assertion 172-166-326730 (target:[app<application.com.insomnia.app.232272091.232272097(501)>:57192]) from originator [osservice<com.apple.WindowServer(88)>:166]

and symptomsd:
defusing ticker tickerFatal having seen progress by flow for com.insomnia.app, rxbytes 7176 duration 25.183 seconds started at time: Fri Jun 28 15:46:50 2024

form window manager I'm getting this
Connection invalidated | (57192) Insomnia

This is the complete trace of everything related to insomnia in system log during shutdown

[subnetmarco]

@dimusik Are you using Windows, MacOS, or Windows on MacOS?

[dimusik]

Hi @subnetmarco, I'm using native Mac OS Ventura 13.6.6

[dimusik]

@subnetmarco, maybe I can provide some other info? I see that insomnia uses Electron.js, could it be related to it?

[subnetmarco]

@filfreire what other information do you need to debug this issue?

[filfreire]

@dimusik, we use Electron - this could be some sort of bug with the latest Electron version and your particular MacOS version. I will open a separate PR with a patched version of Electron and you can attempt to use that one instead.

Would you mind in the meantime to attempt 3 different experiments to help us further debug the issue:

• Make sure the app is closed, download the latest .app from the website and before opening the app run mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Insomnia ~/Library/Application\ Support/InsomniaBackup, and see if it still crashes

• Also, alternatively, try to run INSOMNIA_DATA_PATH=~/Desktop/Insomnia-experiment /Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/MacOS/Insomnia and see if it crashes after some minutes of use.

• Lastly, please confirm the crash does not happen in 9.2.x

[attvegso]

Hi. The same crash happens in windows 11. And it happened in the previous version too
Version: Insomnia 9.3.2
Build date: 7/4/2024
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631
Electron: 30.0.9
Node: 20.11.1
Node ABI: 123
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
Architecture: x64

[subnetmarco]

We suspect this is an error in Electron. We just updated from Electron 30.0.9 to 30.2.x in the latest 9.3.3-beta1 release. Can you please try to download the beta at https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%409.3.3-beta.1 and see if it now works?

Thanks

[attvegso]

We suspect this is an error in Electron. We just updated from Electron 30.0.9 to 30.2.x in the latest 9.3.3-beta1 release. Can you please try to download the beta at https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases/tag/core%409.3.3-beta.1 and see if it now works?

Thanks

I was able to crash it only twice. Other that that 99% better. This way is much more usable. :)
Thanks for you help

[subnetmarco]

@attvegso thank you, we will keep monitoring the situation. Let us know if this ticket needs to be re-opened.