"[Errno 2] No such file or directory" running gsutil

I’m trying to get the dart-sdk checked out and working on my MacBook, but when I run gclient sync I’m greeted with the error:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory

Full details are here but I’ve managed to get as far as discovering that even gsutil.py version -l from inside the depot_tools folder doesn’t work:

dantup-macbookpro:depot_tools dantup$ gsutil.py version -l
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/dantup/Dev/Google/depot_tools/gsutil.py", line 183, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Users/dantup/Dev/Google/depot_tools/gsutil.py", line 180, in main
    clean=args.clean)
  File "/Users/dantup/Dev/Google/depot_tools/gsutil.py", line 152, in run_gsutil
    return subprocess.call(cmd, shell=IS_WINDOWS)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

If I open up line 152 of gsutil.py and add print cmd just before it tries to run the command, I get this output:

[‘vpython’, ‘-vpython-spec’, ‘/Users/dantup/Dev/Google/depot_tools/gsutil.vpython’, ‘–’, ‘/Users/dantup/Dev/Google/depot_tools/external_bin/gsutil/gsutil_4.30/gsutil/gsutil’, ‘-o’, ‘GSUtil:software_update_check_period=0’, ‘version’, ‘-l’]

If I try to run that command manually from the terminal, it works fine:

dantup-macbookpro:depot_tools dantup$ vpython -vpython-spec /Users/dantup/Dev/Google/depot_tools/gsutil.vpython -- /Users/dantup/Dev/Google/depot_tools/external_bin/gsutil/gsutil_4.28/gsutil/gsutil -o GSUtil:software_update_check_period=0 version
gsutil version: 4.28

I’ve hit this on three machines - previously on my Windows PC and my personal MacBook - I kinda gave up since the checkout had worked well enough for what I needed, but now I’m hitting the same issue on my Google corp MacBook and I’m really hoping to fix it this time!

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot further?

[DanTup]

In case anyone else finds this post with a similar issue, it turned out to be fairly simple - I’d used tildes ~ in my PATH, and they resolved fine in the terminal but not inside Python, which is why it culdn’t find vpython. Doh.

[houglum]

Maybe the environment from which you’re running the command isn’t able to run vpython – try editing cmd to use the full path to vpython, maybe? Regardless, this isn’t related to gsutil itself; it’s a problem with the tool that attempts to bundle and run it. I’d recommend continuing investigation on the other issue you linked.