hdiutils failure on OSX El Capitan

[Alex Hall]

When running this through an npm script after successfully running electron-packager I get the following output:

Creating OSX package (this may take a while)

(node:10985) DeprecationWarning: setBackground is deprecated, please use setBackgroundPath

{ Error: Error running `hdiutil`! Exit code was 1
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Users/macspare/Documents/AppName/node_modules/appdmg/lib/util.js:23:17)
    at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:204:12)
  exitCode: 1,
  stdout: 'Preparing imaging engine…\nReading Protective Master Boot Record (MBR : 0)…\n',
  stderr: '\nhdiutil: convert failed - Invalid argument\n' }

Here is the script that runs:

var objPackage = require('../package.json');
var macOptions = {
    "appPath": "./out/" + objPackage.name + "-darwin-x64/" + objPackage.name + ".app",
    "name": objPackage.name,
    "out": "./out/installers/",
    "icon": "./assets/images/logo.png"
};

console.log('Creating OSX package (this may take a while)');

var createDMG = require('electron-installer-dmg');
createDMG(macOptions, function done (err)
{

    if(err){ console.log(err); } else { console.log('Successfully created package at ' + macOptions.out + macOptions.name + '.dmg'); }

});

Thanks.

[Matt Kangas]

Hi @ahallicks,

I don't see your configuration error at a glance, but I suspect that the hdiutil: convert failed - Invalid argument message is due to a configuration error.

Note that this module does not invoke hdiutil directly. That happens instead in appdmg which this module requires. The calls to hdiutil convert are here:

https://github.com/LinusU/node-appdmg/blob/master/lib/hdiutil.js#L5-L20
https://github.com/LinusU/node-appdmg/blob/master/lib/appdmg.js#L416