# Designer Launcher Logs for troubleshooting

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Created:** [July 23, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244 "2022-07-23T04:14:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244/1 "2022-07-23T04:14:59Z")

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I am trying to help a coworker with a simple script module that seems to be causing the launcher to hang when opening a project. It will load correctly to the gateway, but get stuck on “Initializing Scripting…” when opening a project through the designer launcher.

I am trying to figure out how to troubleshoot the issue, however I don’t get anything in the gateway logs, and I don’t see anything in the `~/.ignition` cache directory that looks like a log.

Here is a repo with the project, [GitHub - keith-gamble/SkellyModule: A repository to publish the working filesystem for module development.](https://github.com/keith-gamble/SkellyModule)

There is a warning trying to grab the script module bundle, which could be the cause I am not sure, but I am also not sure why that is happening.

```auto
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name org/sepia/skelly/scripting/AbstractSkellyModule, locale en_US

```

I did confirm it is building it in, so I am not really sure where that comes from.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/d/fda5c2f43914656511d302f0061664ce3712ee08.png)

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**Author:** ![GAduna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@GAduna](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/GAduna)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244/2 "2022-07-25T19:14:29Z")

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I am having the same problem.

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**Author:** ![jcoffman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jcoffman/32/6429_2.png) [@jcoffman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jcoffman)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244/3 "2022-07-26T18:40:40Z")

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for this situation you can grab the actual launch command from the designerlauncher.log file and just run that in a terminal. you should get all stderr and stdout output in your terminal that way which might help you debug where the issue is.

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**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244/4 "2022-07-26T18:46:31Z")

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Where is the `designerlauncher.log` file and that command? That’s actually what I was looking for

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244/5 "2022-07-26T18:49:12Z")

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The log file is in `~/.ignition/clientlauncher-data` and the command is in the log file.

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**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244/6 "2022-07-26T19:03:27Z")

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How did I miss that! Thanks Kevin.

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**Author:** ![kgamble](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kgamble/32/8019_2.png) [@kgamble](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kgamble)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-launcher-logs-for-troubleshooting/62244/7 "2022-07-26T21:52:06Z")

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> [@kgamble](#):
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> It will load correctly to the gateway, but get stuck on “Initializing Scripting…” when opening a project through the designer launcher.

To update any of those curious, the problem here was that my `DesignerHook` was failing to add the `ClientScriptModule` because it was unable to find the class definition. This was because in my top level `build.gradle` I was not applying the `:client` project to the designer scope. To fix this I changed my projectScope from

```auto
projectScopes = [
        ":client" : "C",
        ":common" : "GCD",
        ":gateway" : "G",
        ":designer" : "D"
    ]

```

To:

```auto
projectScopes = [
        ":client" : "CD",
        ":common" : "GCD",
        ":gateway" : "G",
        ":designer" : "D"
    ]

```

The error happening during the hook initialization is what caused the actual launcher to hang.