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Cannot start powershell because of missing file on mac

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### Environment
PSReadLine: 2.2.6
PowerShell: 7.3.6
OS: Darwin 22.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Wed Jul  5 22:21:56 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.141.3~6/RELEASE_X86_64
BufferWidth: 80
BufferHeight: 24

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### Exception

System.IO.IOException: The system cannot open the device or file specified. : 'PSReadLineHistoryFile_2044101305'
   at System.Threading.Mutex.CreateMutexCore(Boolean initiallyOwned, String name, Boolean& createdNew)
   at System.Threading.Mutex..ctor(Boolean initiallyOwned, String name)
   at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.DelayedOneTimeInitialize()
   at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.Initialize(Runspace runspace, EngineIntrinsics engineIntrinsics)
   at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ReadLine(Runspace runspace, EngineIntrinsics engineIntrinsics, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Nullable`1 lastRunStatus)

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Environment

PSReadLine: 2.2.6 PowerShell: 7.3.6 OS: Darwin 22.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Wed Jul 5 22:21:56 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.141.3~6/RELEASE_X86_64 BufferWidth: 80 BufferHeight: 24

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Exception

System.IO.IOException: The system cannot open the device or file specified. : ‘PSReadLineHistoryFile_2044101305’ at System.Threading.Mutex.CreateMutexCore(Boolean initiallyOwned, String name, Boolean& createdNew) at System.Threading.Mutex…ctor(Boolean initiallyOwned, String name) at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.DelayedOneTimeInitialize() at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.Initialize(Runspace runspace, EngineIntrinsics engineIntrinsics) at Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine.ReadLine(Runspace runspace, EngineIntrinsics engineIntrinsics, CancellationToken cancellationToken, Nullable`1 lastRunStatus)

Environment data

PS Version 7.3.6

Steps to reproduce

Open powershell

Expected behavior

Powershell opens correctly.

Actual behavior

powershell fails with the above message.

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Created 2 months ago
Comments:10

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jimmymaincommented, Aug 8, 2023

Ok did the permissions changes on /private/tmp, and now it’s working, many thanks after so many searches.

Anyway, chmod 777 /private/tmp and chmod +t /private/tmp to fix the permissions and PS now works fine

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jimmymaincommented, Aug 8, 2023

I really thought you had it there. But alas no.

Filesystem   1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity iused      ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s2   488245288 165777580 307951552    35% 1017461 3079515520    0%   /System/Volumes/Data

I deleted the powerlog folder in /tmp and that did not help either.