Unable to start or connect to the IPFS daemon

[jayschwa]

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04 / Linux
• IPFS Desktop v0.11.4

Describe the bug

IPFS Desktop is unable to start or connect to the IPFS daemon. I believe the IPFS daemon is failing to start because I only see ipfs-desktop processes when I pgrep -l ipfs.

To Reproduce

1. Open IPFS Desktop.

Expected behavior

The IPFS daemon starts and the web UI connects to it.

Additional context

This was not the case a week or two ago, so I suspect the problem started with an upgrade.

I am using the snap package manager.

Sorry for lack of logs, but I see no obvious Advanced → Open Logs Directory button or menu in the UI. If this menu is under the tray icon, I cannot see it because I am also affected by #1522.

Update: I have found the error logs. snap keeps them nestled away at ~/snap/ipfs-desktop/current/.config/IPFS Desktop, not my usual ~/.config.

2020-05-27T03:54:20.899Z error: [ipfsd] start daemon SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input
    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
    at Daemon._getConfig (/snap/ipfs-desktop/19/resources/app.asar/node_modules/ipfsd-ctl/src/ipfsd-daemon.js:303:19)
    at async Daemon.init (/snap/ipfs-desktop/19/resources/app.asar/node_modules/ipfsd-ctl/src/ipfsd-daemon.js:129:9)
    at async spawn (/snap/ipfs-desktop/19/resources/app.asar/src/daemon/daemon.js:65:3)
    at async module.exports (/snap/ipfs-desktop/19/resources/app.asar/src/daemon/daemon.js:74:31)
    at async startIpfs (/snap/ipfs-desktop/19/resources/app.asar/src/daemon/index.js:54:15)
    at async module.exports (/snap/ipfs-desktop/19/resources/app.asar/src/daemon/index.js:120:3)
    at async run (/snap/ipfs-desktop/19/resources/app.asar/src/index.js:71:5)
2020-05-27T03:54:20.912Z error: [updater] Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/snap/ipfs-desktop/19/resources/app-update.yml'

[jayschwa]

I experience this issue only when using the snap package. The daemon starts when using the Debian package.

[jessicaschilling]

@lidel @rafaelramalho19 or @olizilla -- might you be able to triage? Thank you!

[lidel]

@jayschwa does the issue still occurs with ipfs-desktop-0.12.2-linux-amd64.snap?

[jayschwa]

No, it appears to work with the 0.12.2 snap. I will close this issue. Do you plan to publish new builds to the Snap Store?

[lidel]

@jayschwa for snap publishing, see #1551 (comment)