Unable to start AutoRest Core

[harryli0108]

Hi! I'm running into an issue saying "Unable to start AutoRest Core" every time when I'm trying to either start autorest. Currently, the .autorest folder is empty, and I also got an error saying "Failed to install extension autorest.csharp" when I try --force.

[timotheeguerin]

Hi @harryli0108 could you share more information? The full logs with --debug --verbose

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[harryli0108]

Here's the output in powershell: npm WARN config global --global, --local are deprecated. Use --location=global instead. AutoRest code generation utility [version: 2.0.4413; node: v16.16.0] (C) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. https://aka.ms/autorest

There is a new version of AutoRest available (3.6.2).

You can install the newer version with with npm install -g autorest@latest

Failure: Error: Unable to start AutoRest Core from C:\Users\harrli.autorest@microsoft.azure_autorest-core@2.0.4421[node_modules@microsoft.azure](mailto:node_modules@microsoft.azure)\autorest-core Error: Unable to start AutoRest Core from C:\Users\harrli.autorest@microsoft.azure_autorest-core@2.0.4421[node_modules@microsoft.azure](mailto:node_modules@microsoft.azure)\autorest-core at main (C:\Users\harrli\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\autorest\dist\app.js:233:19) npm notice npm notice New minor version of npm available! 8.11.0 -> 8.18.0 npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.18.0 npm notice Run npm install -g npm@8.18.0 to update! npm notice

And here's the error log from npm: 0 verbose cli C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js 1 info using npm@8.11.0 2 info using node@v16.16.0 3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 0ms 4 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 1ms 5 timing config:load:file:C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\npmrc Completed in 1ms 6 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 3ms 7 timing config:load:cli Completed in 1ms 8 timing config:load:env Completed in 0ms 9 timing config:load:project Completed in 3ms 10 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\harrli.npmrc Completed in 0ms 11 timing config:load:user Completed in 0ms 12 timing config:load:file:C:\Users\harrli\AppData\Roaming\npm\etc\npmrc Completed in 1ms 13 timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms 14 timing config:load:validate Completed in 0ms 15 timing config:load:credentials Completed in 0ms 16 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms 17 timing config:load Completed in 10ms 18 timing npm:load:configload Completed in 10ms 19 timing npm:load:mkdirpcache Completed in 1ms 20 timing npm:load:mkdirplogs Completed in 0ms 21 verbose title npm exec autorest@previous --input-file=swagger.v1.json --add-credentials --client-side-validation=false --csharp --base-folder=test/V1/ --namespace=test.V1 --public-clients=true --clear-output-folder --force 22 verbose argv "exec" "--" "autorest@previous" "--input-file=/src/Api/swagger.v1.json" "--add-credentials" "--client-side-validation=false" "--csharp" "--base-folder=test/V1/" "--namespace=test.V1" "--public-clients=true" "--clear-output-folder" "--force" 23 timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 2ms 24 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 2ms 25 timing npm:load:display Completed in 3ms 26 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:C:\Users\harrli\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs 27 verbose logfile C:\Users\harrli\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2022-08-25T23_44_41_961Z-debug-0.log 28 timing npm:load:logFile Completed in 4ms 29 timing npm:load:timers Completed in 0ms 30 timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms 31 timing npm:load Completed in 20ms 32 silly logfile start cleaning logs, removing 2 files 33 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms 34 silly logfile done cleaning log files 35 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/autorest 125ms (cache revalidated) 36 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 1ms 37 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms 38 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/npm 393ms (cache miss) 39 timing command:exec Completed in 4151ms 40 notice 40 notice New �[33mminor�[39m version of npm available! �[31m8.11.0�[39m -> �[32m8.18.0�[39m 40 notice Changelog: �[36mhttps://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v8.18.0�[39m 40 notice Run �[32mnpm install -g npm@8.18.0�[39m to update! 40 notice 41 verbose exit 1 42 timing npm Completed in 4303ms 43 verbose code 1

[harryli0108]

When I tried to install csharp extension manually by doing npm install @microsoft.azure/autorest.csharp, it successfully installed but failed to run when running npx autorest command. Here's the error message I got:

(C) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. https://aka.ms/autorest Loading AutoRest core 'C:\Users\harrli\node_modules\@microsoft.azure\autorest-core\dist' (2.0.4421) Installing AutoRest extension '@microsoft.azure/autorest.csharp' (~2.3.79) Failed to install or start extension '@microsoft.azure/autorest.csharp' (~2.3.79) Error: Package '@microsoft.azure/autorest.csharp' - '2.3.82' failed to install: Failed to install package 'https://registry.npmjs.org/@microsoft.azure/autorest.csharp/-/autorest.csharp-2.3.82.tgz' -- Error: Process Failed.Error: Failed to install package 'https://registry.npmjs.org/@microsoft.azure/autorest.csharp/-/autorest.csharp-2.3.82.tgz' -- Error: Process Failed. at install (/node_modules/@microsoft.azure/extension/dist/main.js:303:15) at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) at async ExtensionManager.installPackage (/node_modules/@microsoft.azure/extension/dist/main.js:472:13) at async Configuration.CreateView (C:\Users\harrli\node_modules\@microsoft.azure\autorest-core\dist\lib\configuration.js:685:51) at async AutoRest.RegenerateView (C:\Users\harrli\node_modules\@microsoft.azure\autorest-core\dist\lib\autorest-core.js:55:29) at async currentMain (C:\Users\harrli\node_modules\@microsoft.azure\autorest-core\dist\app.js:303:20) at async mainImpl (C:\Users\harrli\node_modules\@microsoft.azure\autorest-core\dist\app.js:506:20) at async main (C:\Users\harrli\node_modules\@microsoft.azure\autorest-core\dist\app.js:530:20)

[timotheeguerin]

Autorest v2 has an issue if you have an existing package.json and/or node_modules folder in the user directory or above. Did you have that in C:\Users\harrli\.autorest or above? If so can you try deleting and retuning autorest.

The problem is that nom install ran inside of C:\Users\harrli\.autorest lookup above for an existing package.json and install the package in the wrong place.

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