Crash on Application Boot

[Rigner]

2021/12/28 15:30:11:334 TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'type')
    at metaToValue (C:\Program Files\Badlion Client\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@electron\remote\dist\src\renderer\remote.js:250:14)
    at Object.getBuiltin (C:\Program Files\Badlion Client\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@electron\remote\dist\src\renderer\remote.js:360:12)
    at Object.get [as app] (C:\Program Files\Badlion Client\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@electron\remote\dist\src\renderer\remote.js:398:28)
    at Object.get [as app] (C:\Program Files\Badlion Client\resources\app.asar\node_modules\@electron\remote\dist\src\renderer\index.js:4:80)
    at file:///C:/Program%20Files/Badlion%20Client/resources/app.asar/app/updater.js:37:38
    at file:///C:/Program%20Files/Badlion%20Client/resources/app.asar/app/updater.js:66:2

Electron 15.3.4 is being used, also tried 16.0.5 and got the same issue.
It's erroring out on this line:

import remote from '@electron/remote';
...
let { app } = remote; // errors out on this line

This is being called in the renderer process.

This appears to be some kind of race condition that only a very few number of users seem to have. We have seen several of these different stack traces for various areas in the remote module. We have also seen sendSync return null for some users (did a band aid for this one) in our own code....which seems to be the same issue that is happening here in the electron/remote code directly itself too in the metaToValue function call.

Looking for some advice/help here as to how to get this fixed. Like mentioned above, the main culprit is sendSync returning null.

More details about the sendSync error can be found here electron/electron#31733.

[XiaoLinTse]

I have encountered the same problem, it seems that it only appears when devtools is opening.

[john8329]

Same thing happening here, while calling Menu.buildFromTemplate, there's the sendSync call that sometimes returns null. I'm upgrading now to Electron 20 and see if it improves.

[chetbox]

We occasionally see the same issue in our Sentry crash logs.