Platformio-atom-ide: Failed to run a command: build

[dsjstc]

New user running on Ubuntu 16.10, IDE 2.0.0-beta.2.3, Core 3.4.0a3. Getting the "failed to run a command: build" error.

What I'm doing: I followed the quickstart recipe, and tried with a new project, and importing an existing Arduino IDE project. Deleted my .atom and .platformio directories and reinstalled everything. No joy.

What I've tried:

• Verified I don't have a separate version of PIO.
• Downgraded to ide 1.7.3 (didn't work for me at all).
• Checked the FAQ, this error is not listed.
• Checked build package is enabled, per bug #79
• Tried with platformio-build package instead.
• Verified that the same install sequence works as expected on Windows 10 x64.

[ivankravets]

Could you make clean uninstall of PIO IDE + Atom? Then, install the latest Atom and stable PIO IDE 2.0.0-beta.2.

http://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/ide/atom.html#uninstall-atom-with-platformio-ide

[dsjstc]

No joy with three different versions of atom. I'm not familiar with Atom, is there a process log somewhere?

NB that some elements of the clean install instructions are absent on my computer:

• .config/Atom exists, but not .config/Atom-Shell
• I am using packaged versions of Atom, so nothing is in /usr/local/...

I attempted with the following versions of Atom, with full purge (including apt-get purge) before each attempt.

• initial attempt: atom-amd64 1.15.0 from webupd8 ppa
• second attempt: 1.15.0 direct download from front page of atom.io
• third attempt: 1.16.0-beta0 from beta page of atom.io.

[ivankravets]

Could you provide an output of apm list command?

[dsjstc]

1.16 beta0 had no such command. Purged, reinstalled 1.15.0, with following results:

bash: .bashrc: No such file or directory
at@punk:~/pblink$ apm list

[36mBuilt-in Atom Packages[39m (89)
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Community Packages (13) /home/at/.atom/packages
├── [email protected]
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[dsjstc]

I've isolated this and worked around it: My dev directory is a symlink. I had opened the project through that symlink. When opened with the full absolute filepath with no symlinks, it works correctly.

Suggest you retain this as a bug and add some liberal use of $(readlink -f $1) to the code.

[theopensourcerer]

@dsjstc I could kiss you! This was driving me nuts. I uninstalled and re-installed platformio, tried all sorts of things but kept getting the "Failed to run a command build" error. Even though Build was installed and enabled.

I just read your message about symlinks :-) My dev directory structure is on a separate disk and I symlink it to a local directory. Guess what. I closed the project, and opened it via the full path and it works! I didn't have this issue before the recent IDE 2 upgrade

Thanks a million for that tip.