Fails to run on consecutive runs, Windows 11 24H2: "spawn wmic.exe ENOENT" / "Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked ... BrowserStackLocal.exe"

[chk1]

The library ps-tree is used by browserstack-local-nodejs to start and exit the BrowserstackLocal process. However, new Windows 11 24H2 installations are missing wmic.exe, which ps-tree uses, and therefore the BrowserstackLocal keeps running after the script finishes running. On the next run, browserstack-local-nodejs attempts to download/start a new BrowserstackLocal process and fails.

The first run of the npm command always ends with these lines, after the Selenium/Browserstack tests run successfully:

> npm run sample-local-test
...
2025-10-09 12:16:55 - error: spawn wmic.exe ENOENT
2025-10-09 12:16:55 - error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'map')

When I start the same command again, the script will not run with these errors:

2025-10-09 12:17:37 - info: Project and debug logs are captured by default. To disable, set disableAutoCaptureLogs: true in config.
Downloading in sync
node:events:486
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, open 'C:\Users\c\.browserstack\BrowserStackLocal.exe'
Emitted 'error' event on WriteStream instance at:
    at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:170:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21) {
  errno: -4082,
  code: 'EBUSY',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: 'C:\\Users\\c\\.browserstack\\BrowserStackLocal.exe'
}

Node.js v24.9.0
 undefined
Retrying Download. Retries left 9
2025-10-09 12:17:37 - error: Error: LocalError: Couldn't find binary file
    at BrowserStackSetup.setupBrowserstackLocal (C:\data\\bs\node_modules\browserstack-node-sdk\src\helpers\BrowserStackSetup.js:1:17704)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
    at async BrowserStackSetup.initialize (C:\data\bs\node_modules\browserstack-node-sdk\src\helpers\BrowserStackSetup.js:1:15053)
    at async run (C:\data\bs\node_modules\browserstack-node-sdk\src\bin\mocha\command.js:2:21525)
    at async captureError (C:\data\bs\node_modules\browserstack-node-sdk\src\bin\runner.js:2:4268)
(node:33796) [DEP0176] DeprecationWarning: fs.R_OK is deprecated, use fs.constants.R_OK instead
(Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
2025-10-09 12:17:37 - error: EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink 'C:\Users\c\.browserstack\BrowserStackLocal.exe'
2025-10-09 12:17:37 - error: Size mismatch
2025-10-09 12:17:37 - error: Size mismatch
2025-10-09 12:17:37 - error: already finalized or destroyed

I have to exit BrowserStackLocal.exe in Task Manager before I can run my BrowserStack script again.

I don't know if there is any other viable method to exit BrowserStackLocal.exe, or you could just allow it to keep running across sessions?

Relevant issue at ps-tree: indexzero/ps-tree#58

[AtharvaMore-BrowserStack]

@chk1 Thank you for reporting. Please allow us some time to look into this further.

Thanks.