Cannot write to file: Unknown error after clean install of Qt

JonB

@johnratius
I would concentrate just on the path it reports. Have you tried, outside of Creator, to create exactly that file successfully?

johnratius

@JonB
That file already exists. I checked it's permissions and the system and user has full access to that file. I uploaded the contents of the file here: toolchains.xml
I am not sure what's wrong with my computer or installation.

hskoglund

You could try creating a new user in your Windows 10, log out and log in as that new user and start Qt Creator.
(Note: this is a just a guess :-)

johnratius

@hskoglund
I tried a new user and it installed and runs correctly. Since I installed it to the C:\ directory, I tried running it on my normal account and I continue to get the errors. Any suggestions?

hskoglund

The easiest is just to nuke the whole directory C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\QtProject
(equivalent to creating a new user in Windows 10 from Qt Creator's point of view)

Note: perhaps zip the directory first in case there are some settings you want to resurrect from the nuking

johnratius

I tried that before and I kept getting the error. I ended up just reinstalling windows for a clean installation. It now works fine.

johnratius

Reinstalling Windows was a temporary fix. I installed all my regular programs back and tried to run Qt Creator and got the same errors.

mrjj

@johnratius said in Cannot write to file: Unknown error after clean install of Qt:

regular programs

Hi does these regular programs include any kind of anti virus software ?

johnratius

@mrjj Only Malwarebytes. But I have already disabled it and tried running it before and the issue still arises. When Qt Creator ran successfully after my clean Windows re-install, Malwarebytes was already installed. Since then, other software such as Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables were installed as well as OBS, Git, MS Office, music software, etc... I even disabled windows Firewall and still got the errors. I don't think it's an anti-virus problem...

I should add, though I have not used Qt Creator much and I used to program Qt in other IDEs, when creating a project now, all Qt includes are not recognized or not found. In any new or old project. I have no idea why Qt Creator can't read the path to bin. (adding to path to system variables has not worked, though I have not tried adding every bin directory, just the ones I use)

I found these:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7530111/qt-creator-cannot-create-file-qtcreator-xml-mac/8820193
https://askubuntu.com/questions/253785/cannot-overwrite-file-home-baadshah-config-qtproject-qtcreator-toolchains-xml

but I am not familiar enough with Linux to translate these commands over to test them. I also installed Qt with all the correct permissions I thought it needed which worked for a little while.

johnratius

Would it be possible that other software on my computer conflicts with Qt?

mrjj

@johnratius
Hi
yes but its normal scanner software or other file checkers as Creator has its on profile etc so
not sure how another app could prevent it from writing etc.

Also it worked when windows was more clean and then it stopped so it does seems like something you installed after does something but I have no guesses.

johnratius

So after many ~~days~~ weeks of checking each program I install after a reset, I found the perpetrator.

I have a bin directory in my C drive containing a script with a bunch of doskey commands so I can use common bash commands.

Upon adding this script with my registry script:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Command Processor]
"AutoRun"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,62,00,69,00,6e,00,5c,00,73,00,74,00,61,00,\
  72,00,74,00,75,00,70,00,2e,00,62,00,61,00,74,00,00,00

Qt Creator throws this error.

What the above script does is this and only this:

registry editor pic
Makes sure the Command Processor folder is there, adds an AutoRun REG_EXPAND_SZ with the value to my script C:\bin\startup.bat

From what I remember, I can do this manually and Qt still crashes on start.

I do love my bash commands and would like to have them with Qt Creator. Is this a bug? If there is a workaround, that would be amazing.

Time to restore my computer to before I installed the script sigh...

hskoglund

Hi, I think the culprit might be one of the bash commands in that startup.bat file causing a name collision.
First guess would be: is one of those bash commands called toolchains?

johnratius

That would be my guess too but no. This is all I have in my bash commands.

@echo off
cls
doskey ls=dir /W $*
doskey touch=copy NUL $* 1>NUL
doskey up=cd.. $*
doskey ip=ipconfig $*
doskey rm=del /Q /F $* > NUL
doskey rmd=rmdir /Q /S $*
doskey clear=cls
cls

Note: This the above runs whenever I start a CMD window the way the registry script is installed.

fifthfloor

I installed Qt 6.0.0 today and I'm getting the same error on every startup of Qt Creator 4.14.0.
There was Qt 5.15 with a previous version of QtCreator installed, which I removed before.
Deleting the complete directory \users...\QtProject did not help.

I don't have a script like @johnratius nor a registry entry like this.
But I found a similar report for a ubuntu environment here:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-20880

The conclusion there is that some third party library has an influence.

maxim2511

I have this same problem. On Gentoo linux I have installed Qt 6.3 on seperate disk, and from there I am launching app, and that disk is not part of the system, and I have privileges problem on folders and files, every time when folder or file was updated, they was changing owner rights, and I need go step by step and rewrite rights to be on my user account, and ( to be sure that everything go wright ) I set files accessible to everyone. Read, write, and execute.

BlasQt

Same problem here, running Qt Creator 15.0.1 on windows 11