Error: Could not locate the bindings file.

OS/Web Information

• Web Browser: not concern (safari/chrome)
• Local OS: not concern (BigSur)
• Remote OS: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE r366954 GENERIC
• Remote Architecture: UNIX
• code-server --version: 3.10.2 387b12ef4ca404ffd39d84834e1f0776e9e3c005

Steps to Reproduce

# echo check for bindings available
dev@devel:~ % echo 'console.log(require("bindings"))' | node
[Function: bindings] {
  getFileName: [Function: getFileName],
  getRoot: [Function: getRoot]
}
# code-server

Then load code from remote url from browser

Actually anyway client side applications worked in browser.

Expected

no errors

Actual

[2021-06-24T17:59:57.059Z] info  code-server 3.10.2 387b12ef4ca404ffd39d84834e1f0776e9e3c005
[2021-06-24T17:59:57.064Z] info  Using user-data-dir ~/.local/share/code-server
[2021-06-24T17:59:57.107Z] info  Using config file ~/.config/code-server/config.yaml
[2021-06-24T17:59:57.108Z] info  HTTP server listening on http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080 
[2021-06-24T17:59:57.108Z] info    - Authentication is disabled 
[2021-06-24T17:59:57.108Z] info    - Not serving HTTPS 
Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/build/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/build/Debug/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/build/Release/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/out/Debug/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/Debug/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/out/Release/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/Release/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/build/default/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/compiled/14.16.1/freebsd/x64/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/addon-build/release/install-root/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/addon-build/debug/install-root/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/addon-build/default/install-root/spdlog.node
 → /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/lib/binding/node-v83-freebsd-x64/spdlog.node
    at bindings (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:126:9)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/index.js:3:35)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:952:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
    at t (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:5:101)
    at r.load (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:4:1719)
    at r.load (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:3:10262)
    at l (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:5:10314)
    at Object.errorback (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:5:10435)
    at r.triggerErrorback (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:3:10626)
    at /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:3:10332
    at r.load (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:4:1736)
    at r.load (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:3:10262)
    at l (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:5:10314)
    at r._loadModule (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:5:10444)
    at r._resolve (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:6:452)
    at r.defineModule (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:5:6145)
    at r._relativeRequire (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:5:6831)
    at n (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/loader.js:5:9420)
    at v (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/server/entry.js:24:4531)
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at b (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/server/entry.js:24:4511)
    at C._createSpdLogLogger (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/server/entry.js:24:5444)
    at new C (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/server/entry.js:24:5260)
    at Ae.initializeServices (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/server/entry.js:36:99964)
    at async Ae.initialize (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/server/entry.js:36:96951)
    at async process.<anonymous> (/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/out/vs/server/entry.js:36:103671) {
  tries: [
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/build/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/build/Debug/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/build/Release/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/out/Debug/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/Debug/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/out/Release/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/Release/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/build/default/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/compiled/14.16.1/freebsd/x64/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/addon-build/release/install-root/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/addon-build/debug/install-root/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/addon-build/default/install-root/spdlog.node',
    '/stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog/lib/binding/node-v83-freebsd-x64/spdlog.node'
  ],
  phase: 'loading',
  moduleId: 'spdlog',
  neededBy: [ '===anonymous3===' ]
}

This issue can be reproduced in VS Code: No

[oklas]

I found a problem 🚀

The dependency library spdlog was somehow not built.

I go to spdlog and install (build):

# cd /stor/usr-local/share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/code-server/lib/vscode/node_modules/spdlog
# yarn

and bindings file build/Release/spdlog.node appears

I suppose the reason was network error (or some else) that caused installation break. May be I did not notice and just run again setup. But why it does not rebuilt? - possible yarn algorithm consider spdlog as installed and does not check target files that must be built.

To be sure that it is not a problem of current code-server version I remove code-server and reinstall using curl ..| sh as in docs. And all is also worked.

So this was undefined problem during installation that caused spdlog to not build.

[jsjoeio]

It was installed with yarn (v1.22.10) so I go to folder you mentioned and yarn says command ‘rebuild’ not found (however ‘rebuild’ command is documented)

I don’t think it works with yarn but I haven’t tried. Usually when this happens during local development, npm rebuild instead lib/vscode solves the problem (it shouldn’t matter that you install globally with yarn).

Hmm…I think at this point, you should remove code-server and start from scratch. Can you try that?

1. remove code-server
2. install with yarn globally
3. try running and share the logs

There is probably a dependency or two missing in your environment. These are usually the ones you need.