Toggle Git Tab does not open sometimes

[wesinator]

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Description

Toggle Git Tab does not do anything sometimes

Steps to Reproduce

1. Window with two projects open, both tracked in git, minimised initially
   open the window, on either new file or file already tracked in git repo
2. Open window, View- Toggle Git Tab

Expected behavior:

Git tab opens

Actual behavior:

Nothing, git tab does not open.

Nothing new in console when button is clicked.
But console has the following existing errors:

EACCES: permission denied, unlink '/usr/local/bin/apm'
commandInstaller.installApmCommand.e @ <embedded>:1
<embedded>:14 TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of null
    at Diff.l.tokenize (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Diff.diff (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Object.diffLines (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at transact (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:11)
    at TextBuffer.transact (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:11)
    at TextBuffer.setTextViaDiff (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:11)
    at CommitController.componentDidUpdate (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ik (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at e.unstable_runWithPriority (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at fg (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Yj (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Lj (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14
    at e.unstable_runWithPriority (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at fg (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ig (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at jg (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Rg (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Object.enqueueSetState (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ObserveModel.E.setState (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ModelObserver.ObserveModel._defineProperty [as didUpdate] (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ModelObserver._refreshModelData (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68)
Pi @ <embedded>:14
<embedded>:14 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of null
    at Diff.l.tokenize (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Diff.diff (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Object.diffLines (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at transact (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:11)
    at TextBuffer.transact (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:11)
    at TextBuffer.setTextViaDiff (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:11)
    at CommitController.componentDidUpdate (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ik (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at e.unstable_runWithPriority (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at fg (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Yj (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Lj (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14
    at e.unstable_runWithPriority (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at fg (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ig (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at jg (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Rg (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at Object.enqueueSetState (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ObserveModel.E.setState (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ModelObserver.ObserveModel._defineProperty [as didUpdate] (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at ModelObserver._refreshModelData (/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/static/<embedded>:14)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68)

Reproduces how often: sometimes

Versions

macOS 10.14.6

Atom    : 1.44.0
Electron: 4.2.7
Chrome  : 69.0.3497.128
Node    : 10.11.0
apm  2.4.3
npm  6.2.0
node 10.2.1 x64
atom 1.44.0
python 2.7.16
git 2.25.0

Additional Information

[lkashef]

Hello @wesinator, thanks for the report.

This seems to be an individual problem due to permission on your file system.

EACCES: permission denied, unlink '/usr/local/bin/apm'

Please verify the permissions, it's worth doing a fresh install if you want to track down the root cause and make sure you granted all the proper permissions if the OS asked you

if you just want to resolve the current issue at hand, I think a permission check should fix this problem and also make sure that "/usr/local/bin/apm" exists and is executable.

One last thing, feel free to do a google search for "EACCES: permission denied, unlink '/usr/local/bin/apm'" and you will find similar cases and come back to us with the outcome and we will be more than happy to help

[wesinator]

Yes, I did Google that - there is only one issue mentioned from 5 years ago and it isn't the exact same error - https://www.google.com/search?safe=strict&source=hp&q=%22+%22EACCES%3A+permission+denied%2C+unlink+%27%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fbin%2Fapm%27%22%22&oq=%22+%22EACCES%3A+permission+denied%2C+unlink+%27%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fbin%2Fapm%27%22%2

I don't think that's causing this issue - apm runs , if it didn't then I wouldn't have been able to report the version in the issue.

[lkashef]

Hi @wesinator, thank you for getting back to us, however I suggested a couple of things to try to resolve this issue, as this seems to be environment related, but you didn't clarify if you tried the things I suggested and their result.

Here is a more elaborate list of how you can proceed:

1. Try installing a fresh copy of Atom? (while watching out for any OS related prompts asking for permissions).
2. Try the suggestion here EACCES: permission denied, symlink '/Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app/atom.sh' atom#7956 (comment) from the search results you posted above?
3. Try following the debugging guidelines in the issue template?

Let us know how did it go :)