byte-buddy: Unable to install agent with IntelliJ bundled SDK on MacOS

When using Bytebuddy within IntelliJ and bundled Java 11 on MacOS it caused the following exception:

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program ""/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home/bin/java"": error=2, No such file or directory
    at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1128)
    at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1071)
    at net.bytebuddy.agent.ByteBuddyAgent.installExternal(ByteBuddyAgent.java:669)
    at net.bytebuddy.agent.ByteBuddyAgent.install(ByteBuddyAgent.java:601)
    ... 102 more

The culprit seems to be ByteBuddyAgent.java#L664

Additional Info:

IntelliJ Version 2019.3.1 (IU-193.5662.53)
bytebuddy 1.9.16

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 31 (14 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

[#802] quote java process path when it contains a whitespace — committed to bitbrain/byte-buddy by deleted user 4 years ago
[#802] fix quote by wrapping the full path — committed to bitbrain/byte-buddy by deleted user 4 years ago

Most upvoted comments

I am wondering - could we fix this by changing the quote function to only wrap quotes if the string it wraps does not contain quotes already? I guess this would add some implicit behaviour and may lead to side effects elsewhere… or we introduce a new method called quoteIfNotQuoted - you get the idea.

Alternatively, maybe replacing any whitespace characters with a path encoded equivalent might do the trick as well, have not tried it yet.

bitbrain on Nov 15, 2021

Weird. Currently I am experiencing the same issue as #732.

Environment: macOS 10.14.6

Idea 2019.2.3 with bundled Java 11. ($JAVA_HOME = /Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home)
Idea 2020.1.1 with Bundled Java 11 (same $JAVA_HOME).

Minimal reproducible example:

import java.io.*;

public class Main {
    private static String quote(String value) {
        return value.contains(" ")
                ? '"' + value + '"'
                : value;
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        String s = System.getProperty("java.home");
        System.out.println(new ProcessBuilder(quote(s+"/bin/java")).start().waitFor());
    }
}

$ javac Main.java && java Main
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Cannot run program ""/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA.app/Contents/jbr/Contents/Home/bin/java"": error=2, No such file or directory
        at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1128)
        at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1071)
        at Main.main(Main.java:10)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
        at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.forkAndExec(Native Method)
        at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(ProcessImpl.java:340)
        at java.base/java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:271)
        at java.base/java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1107)
        ... 2 more

Without the quote(), it runs fine.

kcy1019 on May 7, 2020

I guess the newer version of Byte Buddy seems to work correctly. Once I updated the versions of mockk and Mockito (which use Byte Buddy), the problem disappeared.

Oh, and I guess this issue is a duplicate of that one: https://github.com/raphw/byte-buddy/issues/732, which is closed already.

azabost on Mar 24, 2022

Thanks, maybe it’s Java version dependant, too. Does it work if you quote it? Try an older release where the quoting is still applied.

raphw on Jan 13, 2020