[Bug]: Shows Welcome to Herd installation screen every time I open it

[tauseefsshah]

Platform

macOS

Operating system version

Sonama 14.5 (23F79)

System architecture

ARM64 (M1, M2, etc)

Herd Version

1.7.1 (Build 28)

PHP Version

No response

Bug description

Hi, this issue is similar to #690. Every time I open Herd it shows me the Welcome screen saying "Let's get started" etc. I click to begin and it reinstalls PHP all over again. This only started happening after I updated herd to version 1.7.1. I have tried reinstalling but no luck. The /etc/sudoers.d/herd file exists and I am not using any user/access right management on my mac.

Steps to reproduce

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[sschlein]

Hey, Sonama is not officially supported at the moment and due to the lack of testing capabilities, we can't do support for it.

We'll work on compatibility soon and make sure everything will be ready before Sonoma rolls out to everyone.

[sschlein]

I guess I messed that up, the new one is Sequoia 🙈 it's early here

[mpociot]

The latest version of Herd installs a privileged helper tool to manage services that require root access.

Could you check if you have the following file on your system?

/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/de.beyondco.herd.helper

Do you get a prompt mentioning the helper tool?

[tauseefsshah]

Hello @mpociot
Yes I do get a prompt mentioning the helper tool.
The /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/de.beyondco.herd.helper file also exists.

[mpociot]

@tauseefsshah Could you please quit Herd and then run it like this from the command line:

/Applications/Herd.app/Contents/MacOS/Herd --enable-logfile

This writes a Herd_Debug.log file to ~/Library/Application Support/Herd/Log. Please share the contents of that file

[tauseefsshah]

@mpociot Here's the content of the Herd_Debug.log

Logging setup complete.
Helper tool is installed and running. Version: 1.0.40 (1.0.40)
Helper tool is installed and running. Version: 1.0.40 (1.0.40)
Starting initialize method
Copying Nginx config
Copying base Nginx config
Copying DnsMasq config
Copying Fpm config
Copying debug Fpm config
Copying Valet config
Copying PHP config for version 8.3
Installing Nvm
NVM is already installed.
Ensuring helper tool is installed
Helper tool is installed and running. Version: 1.0.40 (1.0.40)
Found existing PID file /Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/.pid/nginx.pid
Found existing PID file /Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/.pid/dnsmasq.pid
Wrote PID (3860 to /Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/.pid/fpm-8_3.pid
Successfully killed process with pid 1751: AllowedCommandReply(terminationStatus: 0, standardOutput: Optional(""), standardError: Optional(""))
Delete PID file /Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/.pid/nginx.pid
Successfully killed process with pid 1752: AllowedCommandReply(terminationStatus: 0, standardOutput: Optional(""), standardError: Optional(""))
Delete PID file /Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/.pid/dnsmasq.pid
Wrote PID (3863 to /Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/.pid/nginx.pid
Wrote PID (3864 to /Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/.pid/dnsmasq.pid
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “services.plist” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/config/services.plist, NSUnderlyingError=0x600002491cb0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}
Process FPM-8.3 started
Process FPM-8.3 error: [22-Jun-2024 12:33:52] NOTICE: [pool herd] 'user' directive is ignored when FPM is not running as root
[22-Jun-2024 12:33:52] NOTICE: [pool herd] 'group' directive is ignored when FPM is not running as root

Process FPM-8.3 error: [22-Jun-2024 12:33:52] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 3860

Process FPM-8.3 error: [22-Jun-2024 12:33:52] NOTICE: ready to handle connections

Result 8.3: false
Found update!
Stopping Nginx
Stopping DNSMasq
Process is not running - won't stop
Successfully killed process with pid 3860: AllowedCommandReply(terminationStatus: 0, standardOutput: Optional(""), standardError: Optional(""))
Process FPM-8.3 failed with exit code: 9
Process FPM-8.3 stopped
Delete PID file /Users/tauseefsshah/Library/Application Support/Herd/.pid/fpm-8_3.pid
--- Terminate observer called for process
--- Terminate observer called for process
--- Terminate observer called for process
--- Terminate observer called for process
--- Terminate observer called for process
--- Terminate observer called for process
--- Terminate observer called for process
--- Terminate observer called for process
Window count settings: 0

[tauseefsshah]

Additional information - It only shows the welcome to herd installation after system shutdown or restarts.

[mpociot]

Oh, interesting! Because the log file looks good.

Was that taken after a restart?

[tauseefsshah]

Yes it was taken after a restart

[mpociot]

Do you have Herd in your auto-start? I wonder if this is some kind of race-condition between the Helper starting up and Herd starting up.

If that's the case, could you try and remove Herd from the autostart and start it manually to see if this fixes the issue?

[tauseefsshah]

@mpociot Turned off auto-start and still the same

[mpociot]

Okay. Then I'll need to send you a new build that adds some additional logging 🤔

So just to clarify: when you install the helper, you can quit and restart Herd without any problems.
But as soon as you restart you need to install the helper again via the onboarding?