Platformio-atom-ide: Unable to start the PlatformIO IDE // Problem with Python and Locale

[MichMich]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to het PlatformIO running on my MacBook (El Capitan). Unfortunately, I get an error when starting:

I've tried reinstalling setuptools and platformio, but unfortunately with no luck.

[ivankravets]

Please try rm -rf ~/.atom and restart. Did it help you?

[MichMich]

Already tried that. Same problem. :(

[ivankravets]

Very strange problem. Something is wrong with setuptools.

1. Open system OS Terminal (non IDE Terminal) and run sudo pip install -U setuptools
2. rm -rf ~/.atom
3. Restart

[MichMich]

$ sudo pip install -U setuptools
Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

$ rm -rf ~/.atom

Still same problem.

Also interesting:

$ platformio
-bash: platformio: command not found

$ echo $PATH
/Users/Michael/.composer/vendor/bin:/usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/grunt-cli/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

[ivankravets]

Could you provide TeamViewer session for debug? Mail [email protected]. Thanks.

[MichMich]

TeamViewer credentials in your mail.

[svogl]

I had the same problem on my Capitan with german OS settings; this command line worked for me:

LC_ALL=C /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/MacOS/Atom

[ivankravets]

Try to this line to your Shell profiles (~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshrc):

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

[MichMich]

I agree that this solves the issue, but should't PlatformIO include a check for this?

[ivankravets]

but should't PlatformIO include a check for this?

Of course, it should check. That is why this issue marked as bug.

[ivankravets]

@MichMich Could you try the one idea?

1. Close Atom
2. Please disable export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 in ~/.bash_profile
3. Open Atom. Now, it should raise an error.

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Next:

1. Close Atom
2. Please edit this file ~/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/origin/lib/main.js
3. Place this line process.env.LC_ALL = 'en_US.UTF-8'; below process.env.PATH = process.env.Path;
4. Start Atom

Does it help?

[MichMich]

The file ~/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/origin/lib/main.js does not exist. (There isn't an origin folder.)
I tried that change in ~/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/main.js and that indeed solved the issue.

[ivankravets]

does not exist. (There isn't an origin folder.)

Sorry, it was my mistake.

I tried that change in ~/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/main.js and that indeed solved the issue.

Do you mean, that process.env.LC_ALL = 'en_US.UTF-8'; helped you?

[ivankravets]

Could you try to restart Mac? It seems that OS caches system environment variables.

[MichMich]

Do you mean, that process.env.LC_ALL = 'en_US.UTF-8'; helped you?

Yes, this is correct.

[ivankravets]

@svogl Could you try to replace this file ~/.atom/packages/platformio-ide/lib/main.js with https://github.com/platformio/platformio-atom-ide/blob/develop/lib/main.js ?

[svogl]

@ivankravets Work for me as well - I copied the modified platformio-ide package into a clean .atom subdirectory and the base installation has completed successfully.

[ivankravets]

@svogl Thanks a lot for the report! I'll release new IDE version as soon as possible.