From 4d9e258a1e2f60e4d69a7888fb1e4b86c5a314ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "N. Taylor Mullen" <ntaylormullen@google.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:30:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent hard crashing on update notifier fail. (#1254)

---
 packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts | 47 +++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts
index 17d30378..9e2ec233 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/ui/utils/updateCheck.ts
@@ -9,27 +9,32 @@ import { readPackageUp } from 'read-package-up';
 import process from 'node:process';
 
 export async function checkForUpdates(): Promise<string | null> {
-  // read-package-up looks for the closest package.json from cwd
-  const pkgResult = await readPackageUp({ cwd: process.cwd() });
-  if (!pkgResult) {
+  try {
+    // read-package-up looks for the closest package.json from cwd
+    const pkgResult = await readPackageUp({ cwd: process.cwd() });
+    if (!pkgResult) {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    const { packageJson } = pkgResult;
+    const notifier = updateNotifier({
+      pkg: {
+        name: packageJson.name,
+        version: packageJson.version,
+      },
+      // check every time
+      updateCheckInterval: 0,
+      // allow notifier to run in scripts
+      shouldNotifyInNpmScript: true,
+    });
+
+    if (notifier.update) {
+      return `Gemini CLI update available! ${notifier.update.current} → ${notifier.update.latest}\nRun npm install -g ${packageJson.name} to update`;
+    }
+
+    return null;
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.warn('Failed to check for updates: ' + e);
     return null;
   }
-
-  const { packageJson } = pkgResult;
-  const notifier = updateNotifier({
-    pkg: {
-      name: packageJson.name,
-      version: packageJson.version,
-    },
-    // check every time
-    updateCheckInterval: 0,
-    // allow notifier to run in scripts
-    shouldNotifyInNpmScript: true,
-  });
-
-  if (notifier.update) {
-    return `Gemini CLI update available! ${notifier.update.current} → ${notifier.update.latest}\nRun npm install -g ${packageJson.name} to update`;
-  }
-
-  return null;
 }