Argo: FATA[0000] invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided

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I downloaded three binaries from https://github.com/argoproj/argo/releases
curl -sLO https://github.com/argoproj/argo/releases/download/v2.7.0-rc1/argo-linux-amd64
curl -sLO https://github.com/argoproj/argo/releases/download/v2.6.3/argo-linux-amd64
curl -sLO https://github.com/argoproj/argo/releases/download/v2.4.3/argo-linux-amd64
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argo/2.7.0-rc1$ ./argo-linux-amd64 list --kubeconfig ~/.kube/k8s-kubeconfig.yaml
FATA[0000] invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided
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argo/2.6.3$ ./argo-linux-amd64 list --kubeconfig ~/.kube/k8s-kubeconfig.yaml
FATA[0000] invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided
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argo/2.4.3$ ./argo-linux-amd64 list --kubeconfig ~/.kube/k8s-kubeconfig.yaml
NAME STATUS AGE DURATION PRIORITY
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out of these binaries only binary with v2.4.3 is working.

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/argo$ find ./ -type f| xargs -n1 -I{} sh -c "echo {};{} --kubeconfig /home/wiki/.kube/k8s-kubeconfig.yaml list"                             
./2.5.0/argo-linux-amd64
NAME                     STATUS      AGE   DURATION   PRIORITY
fantastic-python-s9l4d   Succeeded   1h    4s         0
./2.5.1/argo-linux-amd64
NAME                     STATUS      AGE   DURATION   PRIORITY
fantastic-python-s9l4d   Succeeded   1h    4s         0
./2.5.2/argo-linux-amd64
NAME                     STATUS      AGE   DURATION   PRIORITY
fantastic-python-s9l4d   Succeeded   1h    4s         0
./2.4.3/argo-linux-amd64
NAME                     STATUS      AGE   DURATION   PRIORITY
fantastic-python-s9l4d   Succeeded   1h    4s         0
./2.6.0/argo-linux-amd64
NAME                     STATUS      AGE   DURATION   PRIORITY
fantastic-python-s9l4d   Succeeded   1h    4s         0

With error

./2.7.0/argo-linux-amd64
FATA[0000] invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided
./2.6.2/argo-linux-amd64
FATA[0000] invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided
./2.6.1/argo-linux-amd64
FATA[0000] invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided
./2.6.3/argo-linux-amd64
FATA[0000] invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided

[alexec]

I Googled invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided and found many related to other projects, not Argo. I think this might be something with your set-up.

Can you try kubectl get ns and see what that returns?

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@alexec i'm facing this error with the following version
argo-linux-amd64 v2.7.0-rc1
argo-linux-amd64 v2.6.2
argo-linux-amd64 v2.6.1
argo-linux-amd64 v2.6.3

and i'm currently using v2.6.0 argo-linux-amd64 and its working fine

argo version
argo: v2.6.0
  BuildDate: 2020-02-28T23:32:26Z
  GitCommit: 5d3bdd56607eea962183a9e45009e3d08fafdf9b
  GitTreeState: clean
  GitTag: v2.6.0
  GoVersion: go1.13.4
  Compiler: gc
  Platform: linux/amd64

i'm using debian 10. If few binaries are usable using --kubeconfig flag , is it still possible there is some problem in my setup?. I downloaded these binaries on another debian machine and got same results.

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@alexec

kubectl get ns
NAME              STATUS   AGE
argo              Active   37h
default           Active   38h
kube-node-lease   Active   38h
kube-public       Active   38h
kube-system       Active   38h

[alexec]

does it work without the flag?

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I rechecked and all binaries are detecting config file if k8-config-file is placed at ~/.kube/config

But few are working if you manually specify config file location using --kubeconfig flag

[ozankabak]

I have the same issue.

[alexec]

@sarabala1979 this is your area of expertise?

[ozankabak]

For anyone who may find it helpful: My current workaround is to use the KUBECONFIG environment variable instead of the --kubeconfig command-line argument. So I invoke the CLI via:

KUBECONFIG=/path/to/kubeconfig argo ...