Intermittent build break: "Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file..."

[jkotas]

Repro

git clean -x -d -f .
build -s clr -c Release

Result

Intermittently fails with

 cmd.exe /C "cd . && "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CMa
  ke\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -E vs_link_exe --intdir=test-watchdog\CMakeFiles\watchdog.dir --rc=C:\PROGRA~2\WI3CF2~1\10\bi
  n\100226~1.0\x64\rc.exe --mt=C:\PROGRA~2\WI3CF2~1\10\bin\100226~1.0\x64\mt.exe --manifests  -- C:\PROGRA~1\MIB055~1\2
  022\Preview\VC\Tools\MSVC\1436~1.325\bin\Hostx64\x64\link.exe /nologo test-watchdog\CMakeFiles\watchdog.dir\watchdog.
  cpp.obj  /out:test-watchdog\watchdog.exe /implib:test-watchdog\watchdog.lib /pdb:test-watchdog\watchdog.pdb /version:
  0.0 /machine:x64 /guard:cf /DEBUG /PDBCOMPRESS /STACK:1572864 /guard:ehcont /INCREMENTAL:NO /LTCG /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF /
  INCREMENTAL:NO /NODEFAULTLIB:libucrt.lib /DEFAULTLIB:ucrt.lib /subsystem:console   && cd ."
  MT: command "C:\PROGRA~2\WI3CF2~1\10\bin\100226~1.0\x64\mt.exe /nologo /manifest test-watchdog\watchdog.exe.manifest
  /outputresource:test-watchdog\watchdog.exe;#1" failed (exit code 0x1f) with the following output:

  mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file "test-watchdog\watchdog
  .exe". Access is denied.

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Issue Details

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Repro: ``` git clean -x -d -f . build -s clr -c Release ``` Result: Intermittently fails with ``` cmd.exe /C "cd . && "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CMa ke\CMake\bin\cmake.exe" -E vs_link_exe --intdir=test-watchdog\CMakeFiles\watchdog.dir --rc=C:\PROGRA~2\WI3CF2~1\10\bi n\100226~1.0\x64\rc.exe --mt=C:\PROGRA~2\WI3CF2~1\10\bin\100226~1.0\x64\mt.exe --manifests -- C:\PROGRA~1\MIB055~1\2 022\Preview\VC\Tools\MSVC\1436~1.325\bin\Hostx64\x64\link.exe /nologo test-watchdog\CMakeFiles\watchdog.dir\watchdog. cpp.obj /out:test-watchdog\watchdog.exe /implib:test-watchdog\watchdog.lib /pdb:test-watchdog\watchdog.pdb /version: 0.0 /machine:x64 /guard:cf /DEBUG /PDBCOMPRESS /STACK:1572864 /guard:ehcont /INCREMENTAL:NO /LTCG /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF / INCREMENTAL:NO /NODEFAULTLIB:libucrt.lib /DEFAULTLIB:ucrt.lib /subsystem:console && cd ." MT: command "C:\PROGRA~2\WI3CF2~1\10\bin\100226~1.0\x64\mt.exe /nologo /manifest test-watchdog\watchdog.exe.manifest /outputresource:test-watchdog\watchdog.exe;#1" failed (exit code 0x1f) with the following output: mt.exe : general error c101008d: Failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of file "test-watchdog\watchdog .exe". Access is denied. ```

Author:	jkotas
Assignees:	-
Labels:	`area-Infrastructure-coreclr`
Milestone:	-

[jkotas]

cc @ivdiazsa

[BruceForstall]

I'm seeing this locally starting today. I haven't seen it before.

Is it widespread?

@dotnet/runtime-infrastructure

[hoyosjs]

It's been reported in the repo lately, but it's been all over and not just the watchdog. Something changed in how mt updates resources that makes this fail more often lately.

[BruceForstall]

Or maybe our (internal?) anti-virus program is getting in the way more frequently?

[janvorli]

I've been hitting this issue locally quite often recently.

[leculver]

Is there any way to get past this build issue? I after coming back from leave I did a git clean -xdf and now I can't successfully build the repo. Subsequent builds just fail over and over no matter if I try to do an incremental build or if I clean the repo again and try fresh. It's blocking my ability to get any work done.

Edit: Adding an anti-virus exemption to the artifacts folder got me unstuck.

[janvorli]

Edit: Adding an anti-virus exemption to the artifacts folder got me unstuck.

I am still getting this issue even after adding antivirus exemption to the folder, mt.exe or mt.exe directory. It seemed it has fixed it, but then it came back.

[leculver]

Ah, to be clear: It's still happening for me, each incremental build takes about 2-4 attempts to finish.

Adding the exemption meant I can now eventually finish a build. Without the exemption it would happen 100% of the time and the build would never complete.