Unable to initialize UI5 CLI

[ArnaudBuchholz]

I made a fresh install of an app based on @ui5/cli and I cannot execute ui5

Expected Behavior

I can serve my app

Current Behavior

ui5 fails with message

Fatal Error: Unable to initialize UI5 CLI

Steps to Reproduce the Issue

Because of the stack trace, I suspect this is related to the missing APDDATA environment variable.

Context

• @ui5/cli 3.1.2
• Node.js Version: 18.16.0
• npm Version: 9.5.1
• OS/Platform: Windows 11
• Browser (if relevant): N/A
• Other information regarding your environment (optional): VS Studio Code terminal

Log Output / Stack Trace

See screenshot

[ArnaudBuchholz]

Important info : I confirm the behavior is specifc to the VS Studio Code terminal that does not define APPDATA
Having a fallback mechanism could help (and a better error message too) ;-)

[RandomByte]

Thanks for reporting. This looks like a regression in @pnpm/npm-conf, which is a transitive dependency of update-notifier, which we where considering to remove/replace before.

It's a fork of another project, where exactly this problem seems to have been fixed a while ago: kevva/npm-conf#7

But the issue got reintroduced in the fork later on: pnpm/npm-conf@ccf74c4#diff-b34f2f53ab94368c86775969fb604e8375abe03b6a378bdd09896fd91ac0a0d2R30

Since the fork has not enabled issues, we should report it to their main project in the coming days: https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues

[RandomByte]

Reported via pnpm/pnpm#6659

I'll close this issue for the time being. Please let us know if this becomes more critical.

[RandomByte]

pnpm/pnpm#6659 got fixed and @ui5/cli main has been updated.

Your issue should be resolved with the next release of @ui5/cli