Vue ui fails to create locales directories

Version

5.0.0-beta.7

Reproduction link

http://github/not-applicable

Environment info

  System:
    OS: macOS 11.6
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770HQ CPU @ 2.20GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 17.0.1 - /usr/local/bin/node
    Yarn: Not Found
    npm: 8.1.1 - /usr/local/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 95.0.4638.54
    Edge: Not Found
    Firefox: 91.0.2
    Safari: 15.0
  npmPackages:
    @intlify/vue-devtools:  9.2.0-beta.15
    @vue/compiler-core:  3.2.20
    @vue/compiler-dom:  3.2.20
    @vue/compiler-sfc:  3.2.20
    @vue/compiler-ssr:  3.2.20
    @vue/devtools-api:  6.0.0-beta.19
    @vue/reactivity:  3.2.20
    @vue/ref-transform:  3.2.20
    @vue/runtime-core:  3.2.20
    @vue/runtime-dom:  3.2.20
    @vue/server-renderer:  3.2.20
    @vue/shared:  3.2.20
    vue:  3.2.20
    vue-i18n: ^9.2.0-beta.15 => 9.2.0-beta.15
  npmGlobalPackages:
    @vue/cli: 4.5.14

Steps to reproduce

Whenever I start vue ui, it immediately fails with:

errno: -2, syscall: ‘scandir’, code: ‘ENOENT’, path: ‘/Users/username/www/vue/Real-World_Vue-3/node_modules/@vue/cli-service/locales’

What is expected?

Vue ui to spin up

What is actually happening?

Vue ui fails with “Disconnected from UI server”

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It is possible to fix the issue, by manually creating all the missing directories.

[Patavix]

Thx for help. This issue exists for more than 5 months and it really bothers me

[surister]

In my case, running it as sudo did not fix it. It was only fixed by creating the locales manually which can be cumbersome, I created a simple Python script to do this.

You can find it here:

https://gist.github.com/surister/99036b618a6231ecdc2cb55845dea072

run it like:

$ sudo python fix_6784.py /home/project/node_modules/@vue/

Notes:

sudo is needed so Python can create the folders. NEVER run a script that you found online as sudo if you do not understand it.