gcloud has stopped working after 7.3.0 update

[andreikondratev]

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Steps to reproduce

I installed 7.3.0 with msi and after that kept getting the error like when executing gcloud commands

google-cloud-sdk\platform\bundledpython\python.exe: can't find '__main__' module in ''

Tried to reinstall gcloud (with and without bundled python) and powershell a few times without much luck.

Works fine after downgrade to PS 7.2.5

Expected behavior

PS C:\> gcloud -h
Usage: gcloud [optional flags] <group | command>
  group may be           access-approval | access-context-manager |
                         active-directory | ai | ai-platform | anthos |
                         api-gateway | apigee | app | artifacts | asset |
                         assured | auth | batch | beta | bigtable | billing |
                         bms | builds | certificate-manager | cloud-shell |
                         components | composer | compute | config | container |
                         data-catalog | database-migration | dataflow |
                         dataplex | dataproc | datastore | datastream | debug |
                         deploy | deployment-manager | dns | domains |
                         edge-cloud | emulators | endpoints |
                         essential-contacts | eventarc | filestore | firebase |
                         firestore | functions | game | healthcare | iam | iap |
                         identity | ids | iot | kms | logging | memcache |
                         metastore | ml | ml-engine | monitoring |
                         network-connectivity | network-management |
                         network-security | network-services | notebooks |
                         org-policies | organizations | policy-intelligence |
                         policy-troubleshoot | privateca | projects | pubsub |
                         recaptcha | recommender | redis | resource-manager |
                         resource-settings | run | scc | scheduler | secrets |
                         service-directory | services | source | spanner | sql |
                         storage | tasks | topic | transcoder | transfer |
                         workflows | workspace-add-ons
  command may be         cheat-sheet | docker | feedback | help | info | init |
                         survey | version

For detailed information on this command and its flags, run:
  gcloud --help

Actual behavior

PS C:\> gcloud -h
google-cloud-sdk\platform\bundledpython\python.exe: can't find '__main__' module in ''

Error details

No response

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.3.0
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.3.0
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.22621
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visuals

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[arifinsiam]

facing the same issue, have you found any solutions yet?

[cesarjosue-reyes]

Same issue

[al-cheb]

facing the same issue, have you found any solutions yet?

There is no any issue with PowerShell Desktop.

[al-cheb]

#13428 (comment)
Workaround is to set $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing = "Legacy" - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_Preference_Variables?view=powershell-7.3#psnativecommandargumentpassing

about Preference Variables - PowerShell

Variables that customize the behavior of PowerShell.

[andykcfung]

Another workaround is to start "cmd" inside powershell, login and then exit the "cmd" shell.

[andykcfung]

facing the same issue, have you found any solutions yet?

There is no any issue with PowerShell Desktop.

FWIW, "PowerShell Desktop" is a very old version of PowerShell. Run the command "$PSVersionTable" on mine and it shows "PSVersion" to be 5.1.x

[SteveL-MSFT]

If someone can confirm that setting $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing = "Legacy" works and gcloud works, we can add that to legacy list so that it defaults to previous behavior. Also, is the actual command gcloud.exe or gcloud.cmd? The latter should automatically use legacy passing.

[SehiiRohoza]

If someone can confirm that setting $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing = "Legacy" works and gcloud works, we can add that to legacy list so that it defaults to previous behavior. Also, is the actual command gcloud.exe or gcloud.cmd? The latter should automatically use legacy passing.

Works for me.

[daxian-dbw]

Re-open this issue.

Running gcloud is not running gcloud.exe, but resolved to the gcloud.ps1 file under the installation folder. The gcloud.ps1 file eventually calls python.exe with a generated argument array. For the gcloud -h, the generated argument array is essentially the following array:

$arg_array = $('', '-S', 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\lib\gcloud.py', '-h')

The leading empty string is the problem that cause it fail in the new Standard/Windows mode. With legacy mode, the leading empty string is ignored when passing to python.exe, but with the new standard/windows mode, the empty string is passed in as well, which causes python.exe to fail.

gcloud will be removed from the list by #18575.
For now, setting $PSNativeCommandArgumentPassing = "Legacy" is the workaround to use gcloud in PS 7.3.0

[SteveL-MSFT]

Created https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/259295558

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[ghost]

This issue has been marked as external and has not had any activity for 1 day. It has been be closed for housekeeping purposes.

[veleek]

For anybody who runs into this issue and is looking for a quick workaround. Open up gcloud.ps1 (you can get the path using Get-Command gcloud | Select-Object Source) and then replace Line 109:

$run_args_array += $cloudsdk_python_args.split(' ')

with

$run_args_array += $cloudsdk_python_args.split(' ', [StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)

[catosaurusrex2003]

may not be related to the real problem of this error but i was getting the exact same error and
my error got SOLVED
the problem was that while installing gcloud CLI i installed it just for my user on C drive , whereas i was calling gcloud outside of the user path.
then i opened powershell inside user and then gcloud started to work

[alteredego]

I can confirm that this has now been fixed with Google Cloud CLI version 413.0.0
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/259295558

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