The terminal shell path "dotnet" is a directory

Issue Description

Cant run “build” task because “The preLaunchTask ‘build’ terminated with exit code -2.”

I’ve narrowed it down to the following The terminal shell path "dotnet" is a directory. Changing the build task to have a direct path to the dotnet executable works.

Before (Error)

{
    "label": "build",
    "command": "dotnet",
    "type": "process",
    "args": [
    "build",
    "${workspaceFolder}/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj",
    "/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
    "/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
    ],
    "problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
},

After (Works)

{
    "label": "build",
    "command": "/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/dotnet",
    "type": "process",
    "args": [
    "build",
    "${workspaceFolder}/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj",
    "/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
    "/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
    ],
    "problemMatcher": "$msCompile"
},

Steps to Reproduce

Install dotnet sdk 3.0 on linux using dotnet-install.sh script.

./dotnet-install.sh -Channel Current

Add path to .bashrc or .zshrc

export PATH=$PATH:/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet

Run build task in vscode (ctrl + shift + B)

Expected Behavior

The project will build correctly

Actual Behavior

> Executing task: dotnet build /home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj /property:GenerateFullPaths=true /consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary <

The terminal shell path "dotnet" is a directory

Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

Logs

OmniSharp log

Starting OmniSharp server at 10/15/2019, 9:22:25 AM Target: /home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService

OmniSharp server started with Mono 6.0.0. Path: /home/ethanpreker/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.csharp-1.21.4/.omnisharp/1.34.4/omnisharp/OmniSharp.exe PID: 6056

    Starting OmniSharp on manjaro 0.0 (x64)

    DotNetPath set to dotnet

    It looks like you have Mono 5.2.0 or greater installed but MSBuild could not be found.

Try installing MSBuild into Mono (e.g. ‘sudo apt-get install msbuild’) to enable better MSBuild support. info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator Located 1 MSBuild instance(s) 1: StandAlone 16.0 - “/home/ethanpreker/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.csharp-1.21.4/.omnisharp/1.34.4/omnisharp/.msbuild/Current/Bin” info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator MSBUILD_EXE_PATH environment variable set to ‘/home/ethanpreker/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.csharp-1.21.4/.omnisharp/1.34.4/omnisharp/.msbuild/Current/Bin/MSBuild.dll’ info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.Discovery.MSBuildLocator Registered MSBuild instance: StandAlone 16.0 - “/home/ethanpreker/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.csharp-1.21.4/.omnisharp/1.34.4/omnisharp/.msbuild/Current/Bin” CscToolExe = csc.exe TargetFrameworkRootPath = /usr/lib/mono/xbuild-frameworks MSBuildToolsPath = /home/ethanpreker/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.csharp-1.21.4/.omnisharp/1.34.4/omnisharp/.msbuild/Current/Bin CscToolPath = /home/ethanpreker/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.csharp-1.21.4/.omnisharp/1.34.4/omnisharp/.msbuild/Current/Bin/Roslyn BypassFrameworkInstallChecks = true MSBuildExtensionsPath = /usr/lib/mono/xbuild info: OmniSharp.Cake.CakeProjectSystem Detecting Cake files in ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService’. info: OmniSharp.Cake.CakeProjectSystem Could not find any Cake files info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectSystem No solution files found in ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService’ info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Queue project update for ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj’ info: OmniSharp.Script.ScriptProjectSystem Detecting CSX files in ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService’. info: OmniSharp.Script.ScriptProjectSystem Could not find any CSX files info: OmniSharp.WorkspaceInitializer Invoking Workspace Options Provider: OmniSharp.Roslyn.CSharp.Services.CSharpFormattingWorkspaceOptionsProvider, Order: 0 info: OmniSharp.WorkspaceInitializer Invoking Workspace Options Provider: OmniSharp.Roslyn.CSharp.Services.RenameWorkspaceOptionsProvider, Order: 100 info: OmniSharp.WorkspaceInitializer Invoking Workspace Options Provider: OmniSharp.Roslyn.CSharp.Services.EditorConfigWorkspaceOptionsProvider, Order: 200 info: OmniSharp.WorkspaceInitializer Configuration finished. info: OmniSharp.Stdio.Host Omnisharp server running using Stdio at location ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService’ on host 5630. info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Loading project: /home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Successfully loaded project file ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj’. info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Adding project ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj’ info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Update project: ProcessedSaleWatcherService info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Queue project update for ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj’ info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Queue project update for ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj’ info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Queue project update for ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj’ info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Queue project update for ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj’ info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Loading project: /home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj warn: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectLoader Package ‘System.Net.Http.Formatting.Extension 5.2.3’ was restored using ‘.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1, .NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.1, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2, .NETFramework,Version=v4.8’ instead of the project target framework ‘.NETCoreApp,Version=v3.0’. This package may not be fully compatible with your project. info: OmniSharp.MSBuild.ProjectManager Successfully loaded project file ‘/home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj’. /home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj /home/ethanpreker/Repos/ProcessedSaleWatcherService/ProcessedSaleWatcherService.csproj(0,0): Error: Package ‘System.Net.Http.Formatting.Extension 5.2.3’ was restored using ‘.NETFramework,Version=v4.6.1, .NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.1, .NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2, .NETFramework,Version=v4.8’ instead of the project target framework ‘.NETCoreApp,Version=v3.0’. This package may not be fully compatible with your project.

    Update project: ProcessedSaleWatcherService

C# log

Post the output from Output-->C# here

Environment information

VSCode version: 1.38.1 C# Extension: 1.21.4

Mono Information

OmniSharp using global mono :6.0.0

Dotnet Information

.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json): Version: 3.0.100 Commit: 04339c3a26

Runtime Environment: OS Name: manjaro OS Version:
OS Platform: Linux RID: linux-x64 Base Path: /home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/sdk/3.0.100/

Host (useful for support): Version: 3.0.0 Commit: 7d57652f33

.NET Core SDKs installed: 2.2.108 [/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/sdk] 3.0.100 [/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.2.6 [/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.All] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.2.6 [/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.0.0 [/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.2.6 [/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.0.0 [/home/ethanpreker/.dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs: https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

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[auspex]

The true error is that the tasks.json file is being built with "type": "process" rather than "type": "shell" https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/79346 gets this wrong, too, but I can’t comment on that. Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/58486984/334719

[auspex]

I agree, this is not fixed and should not be closed! Every time I create a project, I have to go in and hardcode the path to the dotnet executable.