ipfs-desktop bug: solve autoUpdater network errors

I was browsing through countly for errors with ipfs-desktop, I searched for errors that have impacted at least 100 users occurring since the beginning of the year (from 2023-01-01 to 2023-02-04 (today)) and got the following output:

_id	error	is_new	is_resolved	lastTs	name	nonfatal	not_os_specific	os	reports	users	session_count	session_max	session_min	session_total	javascript
bd50650212b263b83192daab491abbdc7142e342	[updater] Error: net::ERR_NETWORK_IO_SUSPENDED	TRUE	FALSE	1675530408	[updater] Error: net::ERR_NETWORK_IO_SUSPENDED	TRUE	TRUE	Windows_NT	2610	473	1305	755	1	10087	TRUE
d69cd40909b2b631885757f09603c26194aef916	[updater] Error: net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED	TRUE	FALSE	1675523500	[updater] Error: net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED	TRUE	TRUE	Windows_NT	1936	482	821	456	1	12483	TRUE
f0f8891b3e2aa1a1ab5f8924a1922b710418af07	FetchError: request to http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/id failed, reason: net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED at ClientRequest. (C:\Program Files\IPFS Desktop\resources\app.asar\node_modules\electron-fetch\lib\index.js:1391:14) at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:390:28) at ClientRequest._die (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:101:8391) at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper. (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:101:7128) at SimpleURLLoaderWrapper.emit (node:events:390:28)	TRUE	FALSE	1675522397	FetchError: request to http://127.0.0.1:5001/api/v0/id failed, reason: net::ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED	TRUE	TRUE	Windows_NT	1735	180	1257	160	1	8816	TRUE
ef9754948e3c28f0051618bf3af4494b62daf1ad	go-ipfs version: 0.7.0 Repo version: 10 System version: amd64/windows Golang version: go1.14.4	TRUE	FALSE	1675509530	Error: Initializing daemon...	TRUE	TRUE	Windows_NT	1391	386	307	553	1	3923	TRUE
1da0920d591f40abe98a3d4bdb7121700ddb2a4b	[updater] Error: net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED	TRUE	FALSE	1675490995	[updater] Error: net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED	TRUE	TRUE	Windows_NT	2378	877	885	637	1	14969	TRUE
72c08ab879452fd9064c433f47e06530a813264d	[updater] Error: net::ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED	TRUE	FALSE	1675457974	[updater] Error: net::ERR_INTERNET_DISCONNECTED	TRUE	TRUE	Darwin	1822	501	735	397	1	12089	TRUE
7d6abf56bb7fdff6d162afcd6088d3869900deb0	[updater] Error: net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET	TRUE	FALSE	1675197270	[updater] Error: net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET	TRUE	TRUE	Darwin	539	140	142	730	1	3476	TRUE
019554576dd54512cadc328567acd9f20698d9e9	SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input at JSON.parse () at Daemon._getConfig (/snap/ipfs-desktop/23/resources/app.asar/node_modules/ipfsd-ctl/src/ipfsd-daemon.js:303:19) at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:94:5) at async Daemon.init (/snap/ipfs-desktop/23/resources/app.asar/node_modules/ipfsd-ctl/src/ipfsd-daemon.js:129:9) at async spawn (/snap/ipfs-desktop/23/resources/app.asar/src/daemon/daemon.js:66:3) at async module.exports (/snap/ipfs-desktop/23/resources/app.asar/src/daemon/daemon.js:73:31) at async startIpfs (/snap/ipfs-desktop/23/resources/app.asar/src/daemon/index.js:54:15) at async module.exports (/snap/ipfs-desktop/23/resources/app.asar/src/daemon/index.js:116:3) at async run (/snap/ipfs-desktop/23/resources/app.asar/src/index.js:71:5)	TRUE	FALSE	1673327800	SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input	TRUE	TRUE	Windows_NT	194	129	7	25	1	43	TRUE

We can "ignore" two of those:

snap installs (no longer supported)
Extremely out-of-date go-ipfs version (0.7.0)

And I believe all of the rest (except for one) are errors with the internet/network during the auto-updater process.

We should implement something similar to https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/2398#issuecomment-413117520 to handle the electron-updater failures.

Feb 04 '23 19:02 SgtPooki

Don't know how to do these things

Jul 30 '23 00:07 Leojack11

I think the main action item here is to stop emitting errors that are normal IPFS network errors, or are normal laptop user networking errors, to our metrics server.

Oct 13 '23 07:10 SgtPooki