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[GH-ISSUE #266] Installing games using the app causes Drop service to crash and exit #137
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Originally created by @F1zzyD on GitHub (Oct 20, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Drop-OSS/drop/issues/266
When attempting to install a game from the Drop app, the app publishes the message "Drop encountered an error while downloading your game: "io error: error decoding response body". This makes it impossible to install any games.
I don't believe this is an error from the app itself as the drop service spits out this log and then for closes itself while leaving the postgres service running just fine:
I have
@quexeky commented on GitHub (Oct 20, 2025):
It seems that the server created and then sent a 500 error to the client, which it didn't decode properly. That's both a bug in the client for not recognising that it's an error, but also a bug in the server somewhere else. @DecDuck you know the server far better than I do
@Pacodastre commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2025):
The error seems to be located in
server/api/v2/client/chunk.post.ts.Can you provide a bit more context @F1zzyD , like what OS are you using to run the desktop application? Is there any other relevant logs that you could share? Thanks
@F1zzyD commented on GitHub (Oct 24, 2025):
I'm using Windows 11 for the client, Ubuntu for the server. I just tried running a download + install now and got maybe 5% of the way before drop crashes again. This is all done through my local network. Here is the log from the client when only running
docker compose upand attempting to install via the client.:A few extra things to note:
5555Here is what my compose file looks like:
@DecDuck commented on GitHub (Oct 24, 2025):
Are you using a .zip file as the format?
@F1zzyD commented on GitHub (Oct 24, 2025):
No, just a plain folder with the game contents and
version-1Installing games using the app causes Drop service to crash and exitto [GH-ISSUE #266] Installing games using the app causes Drop service to crash and exit@DecDuck commented on GitHub (Feb 18, 2026):
Should be fixed for v0.4.0 with new Rust-based download server.