No executable found error for tools listed in .tool-versions

[asampal]

Describe the Bug

For some reason, every once in a while asdf will lose knowledge of which tool version to run if there is a .tool-versions file for that tool in a directory. asdf list, when executed in that directory, shows no * beside any of the tools which are referenced in the .tool-versions file. An error like No <tool> executable found for <tool> <version> is emitted in this case. Invoking asdf local <tool> <version> (with the same version referenced in .tool-versions) will make asdf regain the correct tool version state for the directory in question.

Steps to Reproduce

It's not clear what causes the described loss of state for a directory containing a .tool-versions file.

Expected Behaviour

When a .tool-versions file exists, and the tool versions referenced therein are installed, asdf should not end up in a state where the version to be used is unknown.

Actual Behaviour

asdf doesn't know which version of a tool it should use.

Environment

Ubuntu under Windows WSL2.

adi@CR1-7H6Q493:/mnt/c/devenv/projects/terraform-helm/terraform/vagrant/dev-pmt$ asdf info
OS:
Linux CR1-7H6Q493 5.15.62.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Wed Aug 24 22:24:20 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

SHELL:
GNU bash, version 5.1.16(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

ASDF VERSION:
v0.10.2-b8f6218

ASDF ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
ASDF_DIR=/home/adi/.asdf

ASDF INSTALLED PLUGINS:
awscli                       https://github.com/MetricMike/asdf-awscli.git main c645552
boundary                     https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
calicoctl                    https://github.com/teejaded/asdf-calicoctl.git master c7e35dd
consul                       https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
helm-docs                    https://github.com/sudermanjr/asdf-helm-docs.git master 2fbb98f
helm                         https://github.com/Antiarchitect/asdf-helm.git master a39e17b
k9s                          https://github.com/looztra/asdf-k9s master 2102e69
kubectl                      https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-kubectl.git master 3d00592
levant                       https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
mc                           https://github.com/penpyt/asdf-mc.git master b0458cf
minikube                     https://github.com/alvarobp/asdf-minikube.git master 8ca7b8d
nodejs                       https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs.git master 65441d3
nomad                        https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
packer                       https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
sentinel                     https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
serf                         https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
teleport-ent                 https://github.com/highb/asdf-teleport-ent main fa25f4b
terraform-ls                 https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
terraform                    https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
tfc-agent                    https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
vault                        https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6
waypoint                     https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-hashicorp.git master bc4dec6

### asdf plugins affected (if relevant)

_No response_

[asampal]

I'm not totally sure, but it seems the issue could be triggered when the directory in which .tool-versions is found is updated as part of a git pull. I don't know if it always happens as a result, but that action is one possible trigger for the state loss.

[kelcecil]

I have several students having this same issue under WSL2 when working on Elixir/Phoenix assignments. Thanks for the confirmation of the issue and the workaround. I'll see if I can dig in, reproduce, and see what I can figure out.

[jthegedus]

asdf resolves the .tool-versions on command execution, so the change of state with git shouldn't affect this. When you exec terraform after doing a git pull, asdf should then lookup the version as the shim executes.

When this happens to someone next, can you please share the following:

• asdf current
• asdf list
• pwd
• cat .tool-versions
• execute one of the tools which is failing

asdf current will be the interesting one to see here.

[asampal]

I haven't seen this happening recently. I think the problem stopped after I added .tool-versions to .gitignore.

[jthegedus]

I haven't seen this happening recently. I think the problem stopped after I added .tool-versions to .gitignore.

Well, that's certainly not how we recommend things to work. The whole intent is to capture your .tool-versions in git to share.

[asampal]

Of course, just that in my case I'm the only one using asdf so this wasn't an issue. Also, I'm not totally sure that the ignore was what made things work, since I didn't really look further.

[asampal]

Another bit of context which might help is that the git pull operation was done using Windows git (I have a preferred GUI client). Could it be that during these pulls, there were some line ending changes causing the problem?

[jthegedus]

That could be a potential cause. It is a hard scenario for us to test.

[l-z]

This happened on my mac as well.

"asdf local " again to update the local ".tool-versions" fix the issue.