error reported during jack-in

[vamem9z-Moses]

On Windows 11 WSL on ARM - Surface Pro X - SQ1 16GB

When trying to start a repl in my project I see the following in the Calva Jack-in Window

your 131072x1 screen size is bogus. expect trouble
your 131072x1 screen size is bogus. expect trouble
xargs: unmatched double quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option
Jack-in process exited. Status: 1

I'm not sure what other information you need. Please let me know and I will provide it.

[PEZ]

Hi there! Do you see the command that Calva tries to execute in the jack-in terminal?

[vamem9z-Moses]

Sure. Here is the jack-in command

; Starting Jack-in Terminal: npx shadow-cljs -d cider/cider-nrepl:0.27.4 -A:dev:test:clj:cljs:cljs-dev:cljs-test watch app

[PEZ]

Thanks. That comes from the Output/REPL Window, right? I am assuming that the error messages involving xargs and such was in the jack-in terminal. Did the command ever print there? The jack-in command line for starting doesn't even contain quotes. So maybe something goes wrong before we even get there...

Can you try executing that command in a terminal and then connect Calva instead of using Jack-in?

[vamem9z-Moses]

It works when I run the command in a terminal and then connect Calva.

Here is what printed in the terminal during Jack-in.

npx shadow-cljs -d cider/cider-nrepl:0.27.4 -A:dev:test:clj:cljs:cljs-dev:cljs-test watch app
shadow-cljs - config: /home/mmiles/Software/dcentwork-app/shadow-cljs.edn
shadow-cljs - starting via "clojure"
your 131072x1 screen size is bogus. expect trouble
your 131072x1 screen size is bogus. expect trouble
xargs: unmatched double quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option
Jack-in process exited. Status: 1

[PEZ]

Very strange. Seems to be something happening in the clojure script. I don't think shadow ever does any xargs stuff. Maybe @puredanger knows what we should investigate now... Which version are you using?

[puredanger]

clojure also does not use xargs, but I don't see you using clojure above - that says npx shadow-cljs (not sure what it does).

[PEZ]

@puredanger shadow-cljs is spawning clojure

shadow-cljs - starting via "clojure"

I'm not sure, from the output, if it ever gets to actually spawn it, of course.

[PEZ]

@vamem9z-Moses when you used the command manually, did you do it in a VS Code integrated terminal or something external to VS Code?

[PEZ]

The whole thing sound a lot like this one:

• Getting Started Repl doesnt start on WIndows w/ Oracle Java 15 and 16 #1162

But it couldn't be, using WSL, right? (1162 ultimately was a java spawning bug in Oracle's executables, that they fixed.)

[vamem9z-Moses]

@PEZ Yes, when I run the command manually, I run it in the integrated VS Code terminal. And yes, this is in WSL. Microsoft's JAVA port for Windows on ARM is also installed on the base OS.

The project I'm working on depends on shadow-cljs and node e.g. the npx command. I think this is something specific to WSL and Windows on ARM. I have an x86 laptop with the same project and I don't have any issue jacking in.

I can't tell if this is a calva issue or a shadow-cljs issue. Since it works outside of calva in both platforms, I thought it might be a calva issue.

[PEZ]

The fact that it works when you run the jack-in command line in a VS Code terminal, but not when using jack-in suggests that it is a Calva issue. Not sure what we can do about it, but it's good to have this issue letting us know the problem exists.

Your best workaround here is the command Copy Jack-in command line to clipboard together with Connect to a running REPL, I think.