GitHub Desktop encountered an error Error: spawn cmd.exe ENOENT

How can i resolve this?

Error: spawn cmd.exe ENOENT
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:267:19)
at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:469:16)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21)

Version: 2.9.3
OS: Windows 10.0.17763

[steveward]

Thanks for the report @Arthur-Vinicius. Just to clarify -- is this error only occurring when you attempt to launch Visual Studio Code from GitHub Desktop (i.e. Repository > Open in Visual Studio Code)?

Could you open the command prompt and share the output of echo %PATH%?

If System32 is not in your PATH, you will see that ENOENT error. You will need to edit your PATH by following this article and adding the following line:

C:\Windows\system32

Let me know if that doesn't get things working!

C:\Users\arthursouza>echo %PATH%
C:\app\suporte\product\11.2.0\client_1\bin;C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin;C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\cmd;C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Roaming\npm

C:\Users\arthursouza>echo %PATH%
C:\app\suporte\product\11.2.0\client_1\bin;
C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;
C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin;
C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;
C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\cmd;
C:\Users\arthursouza\AppData\Roaming\npm

[steveward]

@Arthur-Vinicius can you confirm when this error is occurring?

When i click to open in vscode.

[steveward]

@Arthur-Vinicius thanks -- I don't see system32 in your PATH so you will need to add that in order to get this working.

when I go to the advanced settings, this appears:

i'm gona try solve this...

[sergiou87]

Seems like this might be an issue with your Windows configuration and not specific to GitHub Desktop, so I'll close this, sorry! 😅