error MSB4018: System.InvalidOperationException: PE image does not have metadata.

Steps to reproduce

Failure is happening when I try to dotnet restore a .csproj with the following packages (inside a docker container):

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="FluentAssertions" Version="4.19.4" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk" Version="15.3.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="MSTest.TestAdapter" Version="1.2.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="MSTest.TestFramework" Version="1.2.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Moq" Version="4.7.63" />
    <PackageReference Include="Akka.MultiNodeTestRunner" Version="1.3.10" />
    <PackageReference Include="Akka.TestKit" Version="1.3.10" />
    <PackageReference Include="Akka.TestKit.Xunit2" Version="1.3.10" />
  </ItemGroup>

If I remove package <PackageReference Include="Akka.MultiNodeTestRunner" Version="1.3.10" /> the process goes correctly, so it must be something related to it.

Expected behavior

Some packages download normally, and it finishes with this error: error MSB4018: System.InvalidOperationException: PE image does not have metadata. (followed by many other errors. Another error happens just before this one: /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.200/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2106,5): error MSB4018: The "ResolveAssemblyReference" task failed unexpectedly.

Actual behavior

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

.NET Command Line Tools (2.1.200)

Product Information: Version: 2.1.200 Commit SHA-1 hash: 2edba8d7f1

Runtime Environment: OS Name: ubuntu OS Version: 18.04 OS Platform: Linux RID: ubuntu.18.04-x64 Base Path: /usr/share/dotnet/sdk/2.1.200/

Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host

Version : 2.0.7 Build : 2d61d0b043915bc948ebf98836fefe9ba942be11

(I tried with dotnet core 2.2, but the same happens)

[peterhuene]

@igormcoelho Thanks for reporting this to us! I’m resolving this as an external issue. It does not appear to be possible to use Akka.MultiNodeTestRunner from non-Windows platforms. Please open an issue with the Akka.NET repro and reference the comment above.

A simple repro would be:

dotnet new console
dotnet add package akka.multinodetestrunner
dotnet build

I’ll open another issue on MSBuild regarding the RAR task failure.

Thank you!

[peterhuene]

This is an issue with how Akka.MultiNodeTestRunner is packaged.

The problem is here. This is copying platform-specific assets into what should be only managed dependencies to reference. Additionally, I see a ton of native files from the framework itself in lib/netcoreapp1.1; this suggests that this package also published in a self-contained fashioned.

The correct layout for this package should be only managed assemblies to reference (both at compile-time and run-time) in lib/ and put the native assets into runtimes/ to copy for run-time only.

While we do get a warning for each PE without managed metadata in lib/netcoreapp1.1 for this package, 16.x MSBuild does fail with an internal error:

usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview-009812/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2114,5): error MSB4018: The "ResolveAssemblyReference" task failed unexpectedly. [/Users/peterhuene/tmp/repro/repro.csproj]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview-009812/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2114,5): error MSB4018: Microsoft.Build.Shared.InternalErrorException: MSB0001: Internal MSBuild Error: Unexpected CopyLocal flag. [/Users/peterhuene/tmp/repro/repro.csproj]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview-009812/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2114,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.CopyLocalStateUtility.IsCopyLocal(CopyLocalState state) [/Users/peterhuene/tmp/repro/repro.csproj]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview-009812/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2114,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ResolveAssemblyReference.LogResults(ReferenceTable dependencyTable, List`1 idealAssemblyRemappings, List`1 idealAssemblyRemappingsIdentities, ArrayList generalResolutionExceptions) [/Users/peterhuene/tmp/repro/repro.csproj]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview-009812/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2114,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ResolveAssemblyReference.Execute(FileExists fileExists, DirectoryExists directoryExists, GetDirectories getDirectories, GetAssemblyName getAssemblyName, GetAssemblyMetadata getAssemblyMetadata, GetLastWriteTime getLastWriteTime, GetAssemblyRuntimeVersion getRuntimeVersion, GetAssemblyPathInGac getAssemblyPathInGac, IsWinMDFile isWinMDFile, ReadMachineTypeFromPEHeader readMachineTypeFromPEHeader) [/Users/peterhuene/tmp/repro/repro.csproj]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview-009812/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2114,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.Tasks.ResolveAssemblyReference.Execute() [/Users/peterhuene/tmp/repro/repro.csproj]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview-009812/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2114,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute() [/Users/peterhuene/tmp/repro/repro.csproj]
/usr/local/share/dotnet/sdk/3.0.100-preview-009812/Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(2114,5): error MSB4018:    at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.ExecuteInstantiatedTask(ITaskExecutionHost taskExecutionHost, TaskLoggingContext taskLoggingContext, TaskHost taskHost, ItemBucket bucket, TaskExecutionMode howToExecuteTask) [/Users/peterhuene/tmp/repro/repro.csproj]

The RAR task should probably be more resilient to incorrect packages by warning then ignoring any non-managed PEs in lib/.