Dotnet: Sdk cli error: The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found

[favishG]

Created new project with dotnet new console

This is the response

C:\Users\favishg\Documents\testdotnet>dotnet new console
Getting ready...
The template "Console Application" was created successfully.

Processing post-creation actions...
Running 'dotnet restore' on C:\Users\favishg\Documents\testdotnet\testdotnet.csp
roj...
C:\Users\favishg\Documents\testdotnet\testdotnet.csproj : error MSB4236: The SDK
 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found.

Restore failed.
Post action failed.
Description: Restore NuGet packages required by this project.
Manual instructions: Run 'dotnet restore'


C:\Users\favishg\Documents\testdotnet>dotnet restore
C:\Users\favishg\Documents\testdotnet\testdotnet.csproj : error MSB4236: The SDK
 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found.

I have the latest SDK (2.1.301) installed, and visual studio 15.7.3 installed.

[favishG]

After playing around a while i see that the issue only happens when i'm not logged in as an Admin user, But if logged in as admin or running the cmd as Admin it works good.

[brianfeucht]

I'm running into a similar issue. If I run dotnet restore on my build server running as system the command fails with error MSB4236: The SDK 'Microsoft.NET.Sdk' specified could not be found.

If I run as interactive administrator, I get no error.

[brianfeucht]

I'm able to reproduce the error by running the service as Administrator

[dasMulli]

did one of you have a previous .net sdk version installed? so, does it work with a 2.1.2xx CLI and it breaks using 2.1.3xx?

[favishG]

Did have older versions installed, but never really used the CLI, i used Visual Studio, and from visual studio it still works with this version, only the CI has this issue.

[dasMulli]

@livarcocc do you maybe have an idea about this?
Do 2.1.3xx have the resolver changes (where msbuild uses a manifest to locate SDK resolvers)?

[brianfeucht]

My issue was due to the environment variable MSBuildSDKsPath getting set as part of the build process. Once that was removed, I'm no longer having any problems.