Problem with Julia-client update to Atom

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This morning I applied the Julia-client update (to 0.10.1) to Atom 1.40.1.

At first, Julia was then missing from Atom altogether. I followed the Juno FAQ instructions to

apm uninstall julia-client
(It failed, said some json was missing, as if it weren’t installed at all)
apm install julia-client
(Appeared to succeed)

Now the environment seems to work, but in the course of using the editor, I am now seeing messages like these every few seconds.

┌ Warning: Atom.jl: unrecognised message outline.
└ @ Atom C:\Users\brad\.julia\packages\Atom\Wouyw\src\comm.jl:171

I can’t be sure what action is causing them - they seemed random - at first I thought it was the mouse wheel.

I have figured out one way to reproduce them - it’s not the only cause, though - i’ts just one of the things that causes it. I can reproduce the warning by just clicking between the different tabs of the editor - a warning appears each time I change tabs. But is also seems to occur just while typing in the editor window.

At the moment, I don’t notice any other bad behavior other than these warnings.

I have tried completely closing all my editor tabs and closing Atom and starting over, but the errors recur.

Is this a new bug, or a sign of something wrong with my install?

Does anyone know what it means or how to fix it? It’s a bit hard to work with, as my REPL window overflows with these things and my work scrolls off the screen.

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Had the same problem. Solved it by upgradeing Atom it self to (1.40.1), closing all atom windows and using the comandline:

apm update

apm uninstall ink
apm uninstall julia-client
apm install ink
apm install julia-client

which is basically what @pfitzseb suggestet in this post and you did as well… hm …

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Thanks for the help. I tried your more extended script (including the update and ink:

apm update

apm uninstall ink
apm uninstall julia-client
apm install ink
apm install julia-client

Same results. Once you “Press Enter to Start Julia”, these messages start showing up in the REPL:

┌ Warning: Atom.jl: unrecognised message outline.
└ @ Atom C:\Users\brad\.julia\packages\Atom\Wouyw\src\comm.jl:171
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Ah, wait - the link had some good info!

SOLUTION: Update Atom in the package manager

I checked, and my environment was still on Atom v.0.9.1

I went into package manager and did “update Atom” and the problem appears fixed!

Thanks for the link!

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The next Juno release will check what version of Atom.jl you have installed and notify you if it’s incompatible.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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That’s great! I always forget to update Atom.jl.

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I still have the problem, even with a clean Atom.

$ mv .atom .atom.bak # clean atom
$ atom --version
Atom    : 1.40.1
Electron: 3.1.10
Chrome  : 66.0.3359.181
Node    : 10.2.0
$ julia --version
julia version 1.2.0
$ apm install uber-juno
Installing uber-juno to /home/user/.atom/packages ✓
$ atom
$ apm list
Community Packages (7) /home/user/.atom/packages
├── indent-detective@0.4.0
├── ink@0.11.0
├── julia-client@0.10.1
├── language-julia@0.19.1
├── latex-completions@0.3.6
├── tool-bar@1.1.12
└── uber-juno@0.2.0
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This is what solved the problem for me, to clean my local julia conf by issuing

$ mv .julia .julia.bak
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Excuse me, do you know how to do this is Windows? As Im having the same problem even with a clean Atom.
Thanks

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I think mv just renames the .julia folder to .julia.bak, so should be the same as nuking or renaming .julia in your C:\Users\yourusername directory

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Look for the file “Atom.jl” in your user directory. On a Linux system it is found at ~/.julia/packages/Atom/<hash>/src/Atom.jl, where <hash> seems to be a short hash to identify the version being used or something alike.

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I had a similar issue and solved it by updating Julia from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0

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I also have such a problem in Julia 1.0.3 after upgrading Atom.

My .julia folder is ~ 1 GB. I understand the solution is to rename it, which is the same as deleting the folder. Won’t it destroy something?

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Hi, following your instruction, I went:

/mnt/c/Users/name/.julia/packages/Atom$ ls
cYxbS Kxhul lBERI ooRtV QOKyk XKD0f

And each of those listed folder contains a src/Atom.jl
which one is the one (or version) we want?

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Same puzzle as package is stored within .julia
/.julia/packages

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You probably want to use the Pkg API to find out the version, eg

pkg> st Atom
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Hi, renaming .julia folder does seem to resolve the Atom.jl file update, but it also seems like a nuclear approach. It nuked command history, and the packages I had added, e.g., Plots.