White screen when creating new project or accessing assets

[littleEndianOne]

Ubuntu 26.04
BabylonJS Editor 5.4.2
AppImage

When creating a new project or trying to open the assets folder in an existing project the window goes white. If I remove the .jpg and .png files from the assets folder of a project the app does not crash when accessing assets folder.

The log provides the following error:

Accessing Assets:
[31864:0803/180605.880963:INFO:CONSOLE:105] "Using 16 cpus to process assets...", source: /tmp/.mount_BabyloNnoD7Z/resources/app.asar/node_modules/babylonjs-editor-cli/build/index.node.js (105)
Renderer process crashed - see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/application-debugging for potential debugging information.

Creating New Project:
[31864:0803/180605.880963:INFO:CONSOLE:105] "Using 16 cpus to process assets...", source: /tmp/.mount_BabyloNnoD7Z/resources/app.asar/node_modules/babylonjs-editor-cli/build/index.node.js (105)
Renderer process crashed - see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/application-debugging for potential debugging information.

[julien-moreau]

Hey! Thanks for reporting!! And sorry for the inconvenience :(
I have ideas of what is going wrong if it works when removing the images. I’m fixing it in priority.

I’m surprised to see this line « babylonjs-editor-cli/build/index.node.js » in the logs when accessing assets. Are you sure you pasted the right logs?

[julien-moreau]

I'm afraid that I failed to reproduce on my 2 ubuntu computers 😭
I remember that I changed the version of some packages in version 5.4.2. Can you download the version 5.4.1 and tell me if you still have the problem? https://babylonjs-editor.fra1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/updates/BabylonJS%20Editor-5.4.1.AppImage

@yuripourre my clue is the usage of "sharp" package. This package calls native executables to manipulate images (png, jpg, etc.). Is there any restriction for AppImage maybe on some configurations? On my side I did not reproduce but I'm a Linux amateur so I may have missed something :(

[yuripourre]

@julien-moreau let me take a look later this week. I will let you guys know.

[julien-moreau]

Thanks a lot for your help @yuripourre ❤️

@littleEndianOne can we have a bit more info about the specifications of your computer? Like the CPU, all GPUs and RAM capacity?
According to the logs I think you CPU looks good. Are you on a laptop with 2 GPUs (one discrete and one integrated?). Thanks for your help

[humbertoragazzini]

Ubuntu 26.04 BabylonJS Editor 5.4.2 AppImage

When creating a new project or trying to open the assets folder in an existing project the window goes white. If I remove the .jpg and .png files from the assets folder of a project the app does not crash when accessing assets folder.

The log provides the following error:

Accessing Assets: [31864:0803/180605.880963:INFO:CONSOLE:105] "Using 16 cpus to process assets...", source: /tmp/.mount_BabyloNnoD7Z/resources/app.asar/node_modules/babylonjs-editor-cli/build/index.node.js (105) Renderer process crashed - see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/application-debugging for potential debugging information.

Creating New Project: [31864:0803/180605.880963:INFO:CONSOLE:105] "Using 16 cpus to process assets...", source: /tmp/.mount_BabyloNnoD7Z/resources/app.asar/node_modules/babylonjs-editor-cli/build/index.node.js (105) Renderer process crashed - see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/application-debugging for potential debugging information.

Hi i Have the same issue, what i did is download the source, and build the project forcing sharp to use system libvips/GLib, this is bug on arch linux systems i found that this is not the only app having similar issue, its any app that use sharp + electron, after this change the Editor load all the images perfectly fine

[humbertoragazzini]

Thanks a lot for your help @yuripourre ❤️

@littleEndianOne can we have a bit more info about the specifications of your computer? Like the CPU, all GPUs and RAM capacity? According to the logs I think you CPU looks good. Are you on a laptop with 2 GPUs (one discrete and one integrated?). Thanks for your help

Hi @julien-moreau the issue is that the library is calling libvips/GLib inside of electron and the mistmatch produce an error, given sharp access to the distribution lib fix the issue, I could take a look to see a way to fix this if you need, on my side was just clone the repo, add a env variable to say sharp use system lib and done, this happend in the latest arch linux running hyprland

[yuripourre]

Thanks a lot for your help @yuripourre ❤️
@littleEndianOne can we have a bit more info about the specifications of your computer? Like the CPU, all GPUs and RAM capacity? According to the logs I think you CPU looks good. Are you on a laptop with 2 GPUs (one discrete and one integrated?). Thanks for your help

Hi @julien-moreau the issue is that the library is calling libvips/GLib inside of electron and the mistmatch produce an error, given sharp access to the distribution lib fix the issue, I could take a look to see a way to fix this if you need, on my side was just clone the repo, add a env variable to say sharp use system lib and done, this happend in the latest arch linux running hyprland

@humbertoragazzini Thanks for investigating!

This is a tough one, apparently is well known at this point in the sharp community:
lovell/sharp#4348

Your approach is correct, we either point to the system lib or compile it with dynamic links based on the comments at the issue on sharp's repo.