Atom crashes at startup - MacOS 11.0, "Big Sur”, Apple Silicon

[pearcy]

Prerequisites

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Description

Atom crashes on startup on the Apple ARM DTK (Developer Transition Kit, ARM64), MacOS 11

Labels: Mac-BigSur
Labels: Mac-Arm64

Steps to Reproduce

1. Crashes at startup

Expected behavior:

Open Atom Editor

Actual behavior:

Crashes

Reproduces how often:

Every time.

Versions

I tried on all three different builds (Atom stable, beta and nightly) downloaded on 7/15/20

Stable Version
Atom : 1.49.0
Electron: 5.0.13
Chrome : 73.0.3683.121
Node : 12.0.0

OS
MacOS 11.0, "Big Sur”, Apple Silicon, ARM64
Labels: Mac-BigSur
Labels: Mac-Arm64

Additional Information

Seems similar to issue with other Electron based applications.

Link to similar issue
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1098899

The issue here is that Chromium hardcodes macOS page size to 4 KB, whereas on Apple silicon devices it's actually 16 KB. We managed to fix it in our fork of Electron by changing code that uses hardcoded page size: Unity-Technologies/electron@79a9fa9

*** when running in safe mode - from Stable Build
/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/MacOS/Atom --safe

<--- Last few GCs --->

<--- JS stacktrace --->

Fatal process OOM in insufficient memory to create an Isolate
20764

*** crash report from - Nightly Build

Process: Atom Nightly Helper [5461]
Path: /Applications/Atom Nightly.app/Contents/Frameworks/Atom Nightly Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Atom Nightly Helper
Identifier: Atom Nightly Helper
Version: 0
Code Type: X86-64 (Translated)
Parent Process: Atom Nightly [5442]
Responsible: Atom Nightly [5442]
User ID: 502

Date/Time: 2020-07-15 21:50:58.307 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.16 (20A5299w)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 046B23A9-EBF5-1015-D3CD-5146E2CA0F1E

Sleep/Wake UUID: 41F34368-CD91-48AC-8AEF-80C8680A17FE

Time Awake Since Boot: 170000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 49000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 CrRendererMain Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process: exc handler [5461]

Thread 0 Crashed:: CrRendererMain Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.github.Electron.framework 0x00000001107f1cd2 0x10c7e1000 + 67177682
1 com.github.Electron.framework 0x000000010da326f0 0x10c7e1000 + 19207920
2 com.github.Electron.framework 0x000000010da32650 0x10c7e1000 + 19207760
3 com.github.Electron.framework 0x000000010dab7a3b 0x10c7e1000 + 19753531

[DeeDeeG]

For reference, electron seem to be aware of this: electron/electron#24319

[ThatGuySam]

It looks like Electron now has an official upgrade path for Apple Silicon https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon