microsoft / microsoft/vscode-python-environments
"Failed to create conda environment" after the env is actually created — conda info --envs --json no longer returns envs_dirs (conda 26.x)
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Descrizione
## Environment
| | |
|---|---|
| Extension | `ms-python.vscode-python-envs` **1.36.0** |
| VS Code | 1.136.1 (Windows 11, 10.0.26200) |
| conda | **26.7.2** (miniforge3) |
## Steps to reproduce
1. **Python: Create Environment** → **Conda** → **Named** (with an English display language).
2. Pick a Python version, enter a name (`test`).
## Actual
conda itself succeeds — the output channel shows the whole transaction completing:
```
Preparing transaction: ...working... done
Verifying transaction: ...working... done
Executing transaction: ...working... done
#
# To activate this environment, use
#
# $ conda activate test
```
and then the extension fails:
```
[info] Using conda from cache: C:\Users\...\miniforge3\Library\bin\conda.BAT
[info] Ran conda in 697: C:\Users\...\miniforge3\Library\bin\conda.BAT info --envs --json
[warning] conda info envs_dirs is undefined/null
[error] Failed to create conda environment A system error occurred
(ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir
'C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\conda-meta')
```
The environment **is** created and fully usable. Only the post-creation prefix lookup fails — but the user is shown `Failed to create conda environment`, which reads as though nothing was created.
## Cause
The env-dirs helper calls `conda info --envs --json` and reads `envs_dirs` from it:
```js
const e = await H(["info", "--envs", "--json"]);
const t = JSON.parse(e);
const n = t.envs_dirs;
return null == n
? (traceWarn("conda info envs_dirs is undefined/null"), { envs_dirs: [] })
: Array.isArray(n)
? { envs_dirs: n }
: { envs_dirs: [] };
```
As of conda 26.x, `conda info --envs --json` returns only `envs` and `envs_details`. `envs_dirs` is present only in the unfiltered `conda info --json`:
```console
$ conda info --envs --json
{
"envs": [
"C:\\Users\\...\\miniforge3",
"C:\\Users\\...\\miniforge3\\envs\\test",
...
],
"envs_details": { ... }
}
# no envs_dirs key
$ conda info --json | findstr envs_dirs
"envs_dirs": [ ... ]
```
So `envs_dirs` becomes `[]`. The empty list makes the subsequent prefix search join an empty base path, and `conda-meta` ends up resolved relative to the process cwd — VS Code's own install directory — which is the ENOENT above.
## Aggravating factor
The empty result is cached, and the cache-hit check accepts an empty array:
```js
const n = await e.get(CONDA_PREFIXES_KEY);
if (n && Array.isArray(n)) return j = n, j; // [] passes this check
...
j = n.envs_dirs; // []
await e.set(CONDA_PREFIXES_KEY, ...); // and gets cached
```
Once it has failed, the bad `[]` is served from cache on later attempts, so the failure persists until the cache is cleared.
## Suggested fix
- Read `envs_dirs` from `conda info --json` (or `conda config --show envs_dirs --json`) instead of `conda info --envs --json`.
- Better still, derive the new environment's prefix from the `envs` array that the same response already returns — it contains the full path of the environment that was just created.
- Treat an empty `envs_dirs` as a failure rather than a value: don't cache it, and require a non-empty array on the cache-hit path.
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Direzione di ricerca
Inizia individuando l’helper env-dirs e i percorsi di cache-hit e cache-write di CONDA_PREFIXES_KEY descritti nell’issue. Confronta la risposta di conda info --envs --json con la risposta non filtrata, quindi verifica che la creazione di un ambiente risolva correttamente il suo prefix, eviti di mettere in cache un valore envs_dirs vuoto e non segnali più un falso errore.
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Valutazione
- Stack tecnologico
- typescript, vscode
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- developer-experience, tooling
- Tipo di issue
- Bug
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- 1-2 giorni
- Stato di attività
- Attiva
- Chiarezza
- Abbastanza chiara
- Idoneità per principianti
- 68/100