[DYH1319]

Problem

On develop, Electron crashes at startup in the integration tests, on every runner:

Error: Cannot find module 'inherits'
Require stack:
- .../.electron/node_modules/queue/index.js
- .../.electron/node_modules/image-size/dist/index.js
- .../.electron/main.js

ElectronFixture then times out with "The Electron process did not start within 10 seconds", so every test that uses Electron fails. The develop push run for 05aa92e (run 40534971218) shows this, and so does #1124.

Cause

Two files decide what ends up in .electron/, and they disagree:

• build/package.template.json generates package.json and requests image-size ^1.2.1.
• src/ElectronNET.Host/package-lock.json is copied next to it by the *.json glob in ElectronSourceFiles. Since Bump image-size from 1.2.1 to 2.0.3 in /src/ElectronNET.Host #1112/Bump image-size from 1.2.1 to 2.0.3 in /src/ElectronNET.Host #1113 it pins image-size 2.0.3.

That mismatch was harmless at first: the lockfile had neither queue nor inherits, so npm resolved both fresh for image-size 1.2.1, and CI stayed green.

The merge of develop into the electron bump branch (6751468, merged by #1118) then brought queue 6.0.2 back without inherits. npm reuses the locked queue and doesn't add its missing dependency, so inherits is never installed.

Fix

• Set image-size back to ^1.2.1 in src/ElectronNET.Host/package.json. This matches the template and main.js, which calls imageSize(file, callback). In 2.x, imageSize takes a buffer and reading from a file moved to imageSizeFromFile in image-size/fromFile.
• Regenerate package-lock.json. This restores image-size 1.2.1 and inherits 2.0.4, and drops two orphaned dev entries (quick-lru, resolve-alpn). No other package versions change.

Moving to image-size 2.x would also work, but it needs main.js and the template changed together, plus a splash screen check, so I kept this PR to the repair.

Testing

Locally on Linux with Electron 38.2.2:

• Replaying the .electron install with npm 10.9.9 and the current develop lockfile reproduces the CI failure: inherits is missing and require('image-size') throws the same error.
• With this change, the build installs inherits and the integration suite passes: 102 passed, 18 skipped, 0 failed.
• With Fix host hang when Electron exits before the socket bridge connects #1124 merged on top: 112 passed, 18 skipped, 0 failed.

I haven't run this on Windows or macOS; the CI matrix on this PR covers those.

Some earlier runs had unrelated failures in one or two tests (DevTools_check, and timeouts in DomReady_event_fires and ExecuteJavaScript_returns_title), so a single red test here may be that flakiness rather than this issue.

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[DYH1319]

The only failure is DevTools_check on macos-15-intel / Electron 30.4.0 (1 of 1680 tests). It's the flaky test mentioned in the description, and the Electron startup failure is gone on all 14 runners. A re-run of that job should clear it.

[FlorianRappl]

Much appreciated!

[DYH1319]

Thanks for merging! The tests are green on develop now. The Build and Publish run still failed, but only at the NuGet push: nuget.org returned 403 for NUGET_API_KEY (run 41983032478). The key probably needs checking or rotating.