Error executing 'reg': Access is denied. (os error 5)

[cderv]

here is my output when i ran the quarto check, the errors in the quarto.js files displayed below are also what appears when i try to render a sample quarto document.

Test.User@PHX-111 MINGW64 ~/Desktop/Brain2/R/quatro1/test2
$ quarto check
Quarto 1.4.539
[>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.11: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.69.5: OK
      Deno version 1.37.2: OK
[>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.4.539
      Path: C:\Users\Test.User\AppData\Local\Programs\Quarto\bin
      CodePage: unknown

error: Uncaught (in promise) Error: Error executing 'reg': Access is denied. (os error 5)
        throw new Error(`Error executing '${options.cmd[0]}': ${e.message}`);
              ^
    at execProcess (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:5295:15)
    at registryReadString (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:26513:27)
    at registryReadString (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:26498:31)
    at cacheCodePage (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39487:29)
    at readCodePage (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:39520:13)
    at checkInstall (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:98441:30)
    at check (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:98384:19)
    at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:183:11)
    at async Command.fn (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:98667:5)
    at async Command.execute (file:///C:/Users/Test.User/AppData/Local/Programs/Quarto/bin/quarto.js:8102:13)

Originally posted by @serrulate in #5104 (comment)

[cderv]

@serrulate I opened a new issue because it was different than #5104

From the trace, this error is thrown from

quarto-cli/src/core/process.ts

Lines 169 to 171 in 2798306

	} catch (e) {
	throw new Error(`Error executing '${options.cmd[0]}': ${e.message}`);
	}

This is an error while trying to read from the registry at

quarto-cli/src/core/windows.ts

Lines 68 to 72 in 2798306

	const value = await registryReadString(
	[kHKeyLocalMachine, kHKeyCurrentUser],
	"SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage",
	"ACP",
	);

We are supposed to call reg

quarto-cli/src/core/registry.ts

Lines 31 to 37 in 2798306

	const cmd = [
	"reg",
	"query",
	`${root}\\${key}`,
	"/v",
	value,
	];

Can you open a CMD window and try the following

reg query HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage /v ACP

reg query HKCU\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage /v ACP

thank you

[serrulate]

Thank you for working with me on this, i will need to get help from an Admin locally to run the command, i get an access denied message when i try to run the command.

U:>reg query HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage /v ACP
Access is denied.

[cderv]

I will need to get help from an Admin locally to run the command, I get an access denied message when I try to run the command.

This is exactly the issue you encounter with Quarto. We did not protect against this.

@dragonstyle can we work with an unknown codepage if we have an error like this from the registry reading?

According to our code, I think we can use a try-catch here

quarto-cli/src/core/windows.ts

Lines 66 to 78 in 2798306

	export async function cacheCodePage() {
	if (!existsSync(tokenPath)) {
	const value = await registryReadString(
	[kHKeyLocalMachine, kHKeyCurrentUser],
	"SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Nls\\CodePage",
	"ACP",
	);
	if (value) {
	Deno.writeTextFileSync(tokenPath, value);
	}
	}
	}

What do you think?

[dragonstyle]

I would be in favor of adding a try/catch in registryReadString so access denied to HKLM won't prevent us from trying to read HKCU.

[serrulate]

is there a way i could try these modifications, or is something that i would need to wait for the next release?

[mcanouil]

It should be part of 1.4.453

[cderv]

And you can download current Release Candidate at: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/

[serrulate]

Thank you for all of your work on this and all of the responses, one last question, do you have a guess as to expected release of 1.4.453 ? N

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[mcanouil]

It's already available, but it's a release candidate which means soonish there will be a 1.4 stable release.

[cderv]

@serrulate we show the version number in the page I linked

It happens that we are in release candidate phase, so this is the main download option

Latest pre-release of quarto is also always available at: https://quarto.org/docs/download/prerelease.html

[serrulate]

I wanted to confirm that after downloading the 1.4.543 candidate and installing a machine that i do now have admin rights on i i was able to successfully render a quarto document. Thank you!!!!

[mcanouil]

Thanks for letting us know.