"Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open" when trying parcel serve --log-level 5

[rosensama]

🐛 bug report

When I try to enable log level 5 on the parcel dev server parcel serve I get an error.

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/rosensama/projects/newproject/parcel-debug-12/10/2018@11:32:21 PM.log'

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

No .bablerc used. This is an Elm project (thanks for the built-in plugin!) so package.json is minimal.

    "dependencies": {},
    "scripts": {
        "build": "parcel build src/index.html",
        "serve": "parcel serve src/index.html --https --cert server/ssl.cert --key server/ssl.key --log-level 5"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "node-elm-compiler": "^5.0.1",
        "semantic-ui": "^2.4.2"
    }

The command is parcel serve src/index.html --https --cert server/ssl.cert --key server/ssl.key --log-level 5

🤔 Expected Behavior

It should create a log file and operate as normal.

😯 Current Behavior

11:32:21 PM]: Server running at https://localhost:1234 
[11:32:21 PM]: Building...
events.js:167
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/rosensama/projects/newproject/parcel-debug-12/10/2018@11:32:21 PM.log'
Emitted 'error' event at:
    at fs.open (internal/fs/streams.js:293:12)
    at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (fs.js:148:20)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] serve: `parcel serve src/index.html --https --cert server/ssl.cert --key server/ssl.key --log-level 5`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] serve script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/rosensama/.npm/_logs/2018-12-11T05_32_21_786Z-debug.log

💁 Possible Solution

Check if directories exist and create them if needed? If I manually create parcel-debug-12/ and parcel-debug-12/10/ in ~/projects/newproject, it works.

The failed path in is my home directory and parcel is being run as me, combine that with how creating the directories helps and I'm 99% this is not a permissions problem.

It's a tangent, but I suggest removing the spaces and special characters that require escaping at a shell prompt from the file name. Look at the log file name in .npm/_logs, for example.

🔦 Context

I'm troubleshooting my application and wanted to see if the most verbose level included any helpful information, so was trying the highest log level.

🌍 Your Environment

Software	Version(s)
Parcel	1.10.3
Node	11.2.0
npm/Yarn	npm 6.4.1
Operating System	OSX mojave

[DeMoorJasper]

Not sure why this happens as cwd should normally exist?

Related code: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/blob/master/packages/core/logger/src/Logger.js#L75-L80

[rosensama]

I don't think the missing directories would normally exist, but I don't know how cwd() resolved them.

In my example /Users/rosensama/projects/newproject/ is where package.json is found. I needed to create two directories that I wouldn't expect to normally exist as they involve the month and date and are parcel specific.

/Users/rosensama/projects/newproject/
    parcel-debug-12/  
        10/                                 <-- worked once created

Dumping the output of cwd() and the log file path, it seems to be a mismatch between the logfile path and the path createWriteStream is pointed to. I dumped both after line 75 and:

cwd: /Users/rosensama/projects/mendoza
this.logFile.path: '/Users/rosensama/projects/mendoza/parcel-debug-12/11/2018@8:21:26 PM.log'

Maybe just pass this.logFile.path to createWriteStream or set this.logFile.path to join(cwd, filename).

My tangential request was a dupe of #2288 (already merged).

[DeMoorJasper]

@rosensama ow now I see. The log file uses toisostring, which can include a / which makes it a directory instead of part of the filename. Probably best if we replace / and\ with a -

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[rosensama]

To be clear toISOString is not used in the version I'm running (the current release, I think) but I do see that #2288 moved to that to make for friendlier names. My version is using toLocaleTimeString.

I'm pretty sure ISO time strings do not include slashes (unless you are doing intervals).

[DeMoorJasper]

@rosensama you're right I mixed those up. Than this issue should probably be closed as it's already fixed.

[lukbukkit]

I'm getting close to the same error:

$ D:\lukas\Coding\PhpstormProjects\ParcelProject\node_modules\.bin\parcel
index.html --log-level 5
[19:03:44]: Server running at http://localhost:1234
[19:03:44]: Building...
events.js:174
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'D:\lukas\Coding\PhpstormProjects
\ParcelProject\parcel-debug-2019-03-26T18:03:44.972Z.log'
Emitted 'error' event at:
    at lazyFs.open (internal/fs/streams.js:272:12)
    at FSReqWrap.args [as oncomplete] (fs.js:140:20)
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this comm
and.

I'm using Parcel 1.12.3 and Node v10.15.3