fix: app crash if no writable stdout is available #9951

[godfrzero]

Note: This PR is still a draft because automated testing hasn't been addressed yet.

On Linux, launching Insomnia from a .desktop entry (or any context without a writable stdout) could crash the main process in two ways:

1. Synchronous write failure — initializeLogging() was called after initElectronStorage(), meaning early log writes could throw before any EPIPE handler was in place. Reordering the calls ensures logging is initialized first.
2. Async EPIPE — Even with the reorder, EPIPE can surface as an async error event on process.stdout after the write is dispatched (e.g. when the read end of the pipe is closed). Without a handler this becomes an uncaught exception that crashes the main process. A process.stdout.on('error', ...) handler now silently drops EPIPE and re-throws everything else.

Together these fixes make the app stable when launched without a writable stdout, which is the common case on Linux desktop environments.

I couldn't test these changes on a linux system, but I was able to recreate what looks like the same error on macOS by launching Insomnia from the command line:

# head -0 exits immediately, causing an EPIPE error when the app tries to write to stdout.
<path to build> | head -0

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✅ Circular References Report

Generated at: 2026-05-29T12:48:16.994Z
Status: ✅ NO CHANGE

Summary

Metric	Base (develop)	PR	Change
Total Circular References	15	15	0 (0.00%)

Click to view all circular references in PR (15)

insomnia-inso/src/db/models/types.ts -> insomnia-inso/src/db/types.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/index.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/collection.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/response.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/index.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/insomnia.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/interfaces.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia/src/common/render.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia/src/common/render.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/index.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/index.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/app.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/types.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/network.ts
insomnia/src/plugins/index.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/app.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/types.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/store.ts
insomnia/src/plugins/index.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/misc.ts
insomnia/src/templating/base-extension-worker.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/worker.ts
insomnia/src/templating/index.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/base-extension.ts
insomnia/src/templating/types.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/network.ts
insomnia/src/templating/types.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/utils.ts
insomnia/src/ui/components/settings/import-export.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/modals/export-requests-modal.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/tabs/tab-list.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/tabs/tab.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/templating/tag-editor-arg-sub-form.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/templating/external-vault/external-vault-form.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/viewers/response-viewer.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/viewers/response-multipart-viewer.tsx

Click to view all circular references in base branch (15)

insomnia-inso/src/db/models/types.ts -> insomnia-inso/src/db/types.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/index.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/collection.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/response.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/index.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/insomnia.ts -> insomnia-scripting-environment/src/objects/interfaces.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia/src/common/render.ts
insomnia/src/network/network.ts -> insomnia/src/common/render.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/index.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/index.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/app.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/types.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/network.ts
insomnia/src/plugins/index.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/app.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/types.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/store.ts
insomnia/src/plugins/index.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/misc.ts
insomnia/src/templating/base-extension-worker.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/worker.ts
insomnia/src/templating/index.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/base-extension.ts
insomnia/src/templating/types.ts -> insomnia/src/plugins/context/network.ts
insomnia/src/templating/types.ts -> insomnia/src/templating/utils.ts
insomnia/src/ui/components/settings/import-export.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/modals/export-requests-modal.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/tabs/tab-list.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/tabs/tab.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/templating/tag-editor-arg-sub-form.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/templating/external-vault/external-vault-form.tsx
insomnia/src/ui/components/viewers/response-viewer.tsx -> insomnia/src/ui/components/viewers/response-multipart-viewer.tsx

Analysis

✅ No Change: This PR does not introduce or remove any circular references.

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