Prisma Warning on Ubuntu 20.04

[saremeskandary]

Bug description

When running a Next.js 13 app that utilizes Prisma on an Ubuntu 20.04 environment, a recurring warning is displayed in the console. The warning message is as follows:

prisma:warn Prisma doesn't know which engines to download for the Linux distro "". Falling back to Prisma engines built "debian".
Please report your experience by creating an issue at https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues so we can add your distro to the list of known supported distros.

How to reproduce

1. Set up a Next.js 13 application with Prisma integration on an Ubuntu 20.04 environment.
2. Run the development server using the configured Prisma setup.
3. Observe the console output for the mentioned warning message.

Expected behavior

The Prisma setup should identify the Linux distribution correctly and download the appropriate engines without displaying a warning.

Prisma information

The warning message indicates that Prisma is unable to determine the Linux distribution and falls back to using Prisma engines built for "debian."

Environment & setup

// lib/prisma.ts
import { PrismaClient } from "@prisma/client";

declare global {
let prisma: PrismaClient | undefined;
}

const globalForPrisma = global as unknown as { prisma: PrismaClient };

export const prisma = globalForPrisma.prisma || new PrismaClient();

if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") globalForPrisma.prisma = prisma;

export default prisma;

"@next-auth/prisma-adapter": "^1.0.7",
"@prisma/client": "^5.1.1",
"prisma": "^5.7.0",

Prisma Version

"prisma": "^5.7.0",

[jkomyno]

Hi @saremeskandary, I just wanted to highlight that the warning above doesn't impact Prisma's features: everything you are already familiar with is still available. We will take a look at why that warning appears, and remove it in future versions.

Can you please report back with the output you're getting from cat /etc/os-release?

Thanks!

[Jolg42]

I'll close this, as the fallback/default engine should work as expected, so only a report would be needed if there is an issue, let us know if that's the case.

Note that we changed the message, to make it informational only in #23243
The updated message will be part of the next release 5.11.0, next week.