Remove startBackend code from GUI app

3 files changed, 1 insertions, 73 deletions

diff --git a/app/main.js b/app/main.js
index ea85de8b36..863d8a6f67 100644
--- a/app/main.js
+++ b/app/main.js
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ import mkdirp from 'mkdirp';
 import { log } from './lib/platform';
 import electron, { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, Tray, Menu, nativeImage } from 'electron';
 import TrayIconManager from './lib/tray-icon-manager';
-import ElectronSudo from 'electron-sudo';
-import shellescape from 'shell-escape';
 import { version } from '../package.json';
 import { parseIpcCredentials } from './lib/backend';
 import { resolveBin } from './lib/proc';
@@ -41,12 +39,6 @@ const appDelegate = {
 
     log.info('Running version', version);
 
-    // Only macOS builds still launch the daemon manually.
-    // On other platforms mullvad-daemon already runs as a system service.
-    if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
-      appDelegate._startBackend();
-    }
-
     app.on('window-all-closed', () => appDelegate.onAllWindowsClosed());
     app.on('ready', () => appDelegate.onReady());
   },
@@ -188,33 +180,6 @@ const appDelegate = {
   onAllWindowsClosed: () => {
     app.quit();
   },
-
-  _startBackend: () => {
-    const rpcAddressFile = appDelegate._getRpcAddressFilePath();
-    const backendIsRunning = fs.existsSync(rpcAddressFile);
-    if (backendIsRunning) {
-      log.info('Not starting the backend as it appears to already be running');
-      return;
-    }
-
-    const pathToBackend = resolveBin('mullvad-daemon');
-    log.info('Starting the mullvad backend at', pathToBackend);
-
-    const options = {
-      name: 'Mullvad',
-    };
-    const sudo = new ElectronSudo(options);
-    const backendCommand = shellescape([
-      pathToBackend, '-v',
-      '--log', path.join(appDelegate._logFileLocation, 'backend.log'),
-      '--tunnel-log', path.join(appDelegate._logFileLocation, 'openvpn.log')
-    ]);
-    sudo.spawn(backendCommand, [])
-      .then( p => {
-        appDelegate._setupBackendProcessListeners(p);
-        return p;
-      });
-  },
   _getRpcAddressFilePath: () => {
     const rpcAddressFileName = '.mullvad_rpc_address';
 
@@ -225,30 +190,6 @@ const appDelegate = {
       return path.join(getSystemTemporaryDirectory(), rpcAddressFileName);
     }
   },
-  _setupBackendProcessListeners: (p) => {
-    // electron-sudo writes all output to some buffers in memory.
-    // For long-running processes such as this one that would
-    // cause a memory leak.
-    p.stdout.removeAllListeners('data');
-    p.stderr.removeAllListeners('data');
-
-    p.stdout.on('data', (data) => {
-      console.log('BACKEND stdout:', data.toString());
-    });
-    p.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
-      console.warn('BACKEND stderr:', data.toString());
-    });
-
-    p.on('error', (err) => {
-      log.error('Failed to start or kill the backend', err);
-    });
-
-    p.on('exit', (code) => {
-      const timeoutMs = 500;
-      log.info('The backend exited with code', code + '. Attempting to restart it in', timeoutMs, 'milliseconds...');
-      setTimeout( () => appDelegate._startBackend(), timeoutMs);
-    });
-  },
   _pollForConnectionInfoFile: () => {
 
     if (appDelegate.connectionFilePollInterval) {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b7d77d582b..bb794f5fe9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
     "babel-runtime": "^6.22.0",
     "d3-geo-projection": "^2.3.2",
     "electron-log": "^2.2.8",
-    "electron-sudo": "https://github.com/mullvad/electron-sudo.git",
     "history": "^4.6.1",
     "jsonrpc-lite": "^1.2.3",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
@@ -31,7 +30,6 @@
     "reactxp": "^1.1.0-rc.2",
     "redux": "^3.0.0",
     "redux-thunk": "^2.2.0",
-    "shell-escape": "^0.2.0",
     "uuid": "^3.0.1",
     "validated": "^1.1.0"
   },
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 223260621a..f107aa71d5 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1396,7 +1396,7 @@ bluebird-lst@^1.0.5:
   dependencies:
     bluebird "^3.5.1"
 
-bluebird@^3.4.6, bluebird@^3.5.0, bluebird@^3.5.1:
+bluebird@^3.5.0, bluebird@^3.5.1:
   version "3.5.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/bluebird/-/bluebird-3.5.1.tgz#d9551f9de98f1fcda1e683d17ee91a0602ee2eb9"
 
@@ -2786,13 +2786,6 @@ electron-publish@19.55.2:
     fs-extra-p "^4.5.0"
     mime "^2.2.0"
 
-"electron-sudo@https://github.com/mullvad/electron-sudo.git":
-  version "4.0.12"
-  resolved "https://github.com/mullvad/electron-sudo.git#f71134f86541b15359f4813715d721818fb2b1f4"
-  dependencies:
-    babel-runtime "^6.18.0"
-    bluebird "^3.4.6"
-
 electron-window@^0.8.0:
   version "0.8.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/electron-window/-/electron-window-0.8.1.tgz#16ca187eb4870b0679274fc8299c5960e6ab2c5e"
@@ -7000,10 +6993,6 @@ shebang-regex@^1.0.0:
   version "1.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shebang-regex/-/shebang-regex-1.0.0.tgz#da42f49740c0b42db2ca9728571cb190c98efea3"
 
-shell-escape@^0.2.0:
-  version "0.2.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shell-escape/-/shell-escape-0.2.0.tgz#68fd025eb0490b4f567a027f0bf22480b5f84133"
-
 shell-quote@1.6.1, shell-quote@^1.6.1:
   version "1.6.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shell-quote/-/shell-quote-1.6.1.tgz#f4781949cce402697127430ea3b3c5476f481767"