BUILD ERROR Build failure: Error: Build aborted, Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘../release-branches/bumper-20.9/bumper/build/phet/.rsync-filter’.

[samreid]

I tried deploying a bumper RC on an existing branch, and got:

BUILD ERROR
Build failure: Error: Build aborted, Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '../release-branches/bumper-20.9/bumper/build/phet/.rsync-filter'. Sim = bumper Version = 20.9.3-rc.1 Brands = phet Locales = * Shas = {"comment":"# bumper 20.9.3-rc.1 Fri Oct 25 2024 08:31:03 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)","assert":{"sha":"e518fe8db0a776a67e60e9c2110cd8411a21a007","branch":"HEAD"},"axon":{"sha":"417ce4c0a37ac0b852a59ba37dde53b219da8f18","branch":"HEAD"},"brand":{"sha":"ae6113e264048e83a8087154fbac78b38bdeb763","branch":"HEAD"},"bumper":{"sha":"345bbc40a863c15f244aafd03363b9c1f17f436b","branch":"20.9"},"chains":{"sha":"18e07e1017244c61603e66314b44e274332bdafe","branch":"HEAD"},"chipper":{"sha":"f3392451c9902c802afd79fa9954ede12a0638d9","branch":"HEAD"},"dot":{"sha":"e9114c60503bbf267e6cec6b392befbb0fe08f90","branch":"HEAD"},"joist":{"sha":"10eb37a1d2872e6faef23755c98073c9f5d1743e","branch":"HEAD"},"kite":{"sha":"7067ff5800d6b887614982799b6e3a2acf5d4a4c","branch":"HEAD"},"perennial-alias":{"sha":"e81287f9ef173a7f18c09745636cfe2949e85fd1","branch":"HEAD"},"phet-core":{"sha":"b07a9b531e0185b53c4d0b3162098e53781d662d","branch":"HEAD"},"phet-io":{"sha":"ffcab29ec54195ee8a2281a81fab9455403fb596","branch":"HEAD"},"phet-io-sim-specific":{"sha":"54d95c9243489e01fad4ffdc74888be392e43a39","branch":"HEAD"},"phet-io-wrappers":{"sha":"85b72750d1ef1cb3c53e51551efdfcecea17d8cc","branch":"HEAD"},"phetcommon":{"sha":"b45f8a1e3fbb31e2ee77b14d2382198107773724","branch":"HEAD"},"phetmarks":{"sha":"4f9ec6bf3f67f7bbec385197de01a816cf1f0c9e","branch":"HEAD"},"query-string-machine":{"sha":"f42dcee9c8d73eca112fb8c5ed49956d88338dda","branch":"HEAD"},"scenery":{"sha":"bbfa39e89595e178b8a3fef92f7b63dfdc097b7c","branch":"HEAD"},"scenery-phet":{"sha":"3f47b1a337ea0e902b031a2392c21f727ad31cd1","branch":"HEAD"},"sherpa":{"sha":"9197b2db5301be15d8109a31726c61a092fe542e","branch":"HEAD"},"studio":{"sha":"7fd91d2bc1523317e80518657005a1df9e60a5ff","branch":"HEAD"},"sun":{"sha":"79552baf0c0a92e1a15d74942cdca2136b88b914","branch":"HEAD"},"tambo":{"sha":"ba948915e27b5126b786cf639fa1427f9c6c1427","branch":"HEAD"},"tandem":{"sha":"c6a09fef3a42e9d6aad51a94243ec12ab4516a1c","branch":"HEAD"},"twixt":{"sha":"a11c47f148a930ad010baf3c2666a90990e749d5","branch":"HEAD"},"utterance-queue":{"sha":"d742a6251c24865d1070114d4f87e6dbf6a93952","branch":"HEAD"}}

Let’s investigate this before deploying any more RCs

[samreid]

Other failures from yesterday reported the same thing. Another said:

Build failure: Error: Build aborted, Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '../release-branches/bumper-20.9/bumper/build/phet-io/.htaccess'.

So both failures indicate failure to open a dotfile (.rsync-filter or .htaccess).

[samreid]

Did the build server node version change recently?

[zepumph]

@samreid and I found in the build server logs two things:

1. npm updates say that the current version of node is unsupported for our new build tool pagackes:
2. This line is logged between one and three times a second:

Oct 25 09:58:15 phet-server2.int.colorado.edu build-server[2260292]: error: Write operation failed. The target directory did not exist.