Failed to find the "go" binary from PATH

[up9cloud]

What version of Go, VS Code & VS Code Go extension are you using?

• Run go version to get version of Go
  • go version go1.15.2 darwin/amd64
• Run code -v or code-insiders -v to get version of VS Code or VS Code Insiders
  • 1.51.1
    e5a624b788d92b8d34d1392e4c4d9789406efe8f
    x64
• Check your installed extensions to get the version of the VS Code Go extension
  • v0.18.1
• Run go env to get the go development environment details
  • GO111MODULE=""
    GOARCH="amd64"
    GOBIN=""
    GOCACHE="/Users/ss/Library/Caches/go-build"
    GOENV="/Users/ss/Library/Application Support/go/env"
    GOEXE=""
    GOFLAGS=""
    GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
    GOHOSTOS="darwin"
    GOINSECURE=""
    GOMODCACHE="/Users/ss/go/pkg/mod"
    GONOPROXY=""
    GONOSUMDB=""
    GOOS="darwin"
    GOPATH="/Users/ss/go"
    GOPRIVATE=""
    GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
    GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.15.2/libexec"
    GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
    GOTMPDIR=""
    GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.15.2/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
    GCCGO="gccgo"
    ...

Share the Go related settings you have added/edited

None.

Describe the bug

Every time I restart vscode, it shows: Failed to find the "go" binary in either。GOROOT() or PATH(/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin). Check PATH, or Install Go and reload the window.

It seems the PATH(/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin) from the message is not my actual path:

$ cat /etc/paths
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
$ which go
/usr/local/bin/go

And if I manually did Developer: reload window once after terminal started, it would work without errors.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Clear all settings about go in vscode, make it all defaults
2. Make sure your executable go not in /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
3. Add sleep 15 to ~/.bash_profile to make terminal very slow to up
4. Restart vocode

Screenshots or recordings

Refs may help:

• Do not wait for shell environment resolution before opening window microsoft/vscode#108804
• VS Code unable to locate Go tools on my MacBook microsoft/vscode#108003

[hyangah]

Thanks for finding the references to the latest vscode work towards this issue. Looks like the process environment population got unstable in the recent releases of vscode. :-(

Until vscode team sorts out this and directs extension authors, let's make a link to the reference issue and recommend the "Reload the window" command.

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/276492 mentions this issue: src/goInstallTools: add reference for incorrect PATH issue

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/276493 mentions this issue: src/pathUtils: check /usr/local/bin/go for go

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/279727 mentions this issue: src/utils/pathUtils: return the default go path only if exists

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/280592 mentions this issue: [release] src/utils/pathUtils: return the default go path only if exists

[kwsorensen]

I am running into this problem as well.

Error on load:
Failed to find the "go" binary in either GOROOT() or PATH(/home/kyles/.vscode-server/bin/3866c3553be8b268c8a7f8c0482c0c0177aa8bfa/bin:/home/kyles/go/bin:/bin:/home/kyles/.nvm/versions/node/v10.24.1/bin:/usr/local/bin/pact/bin:/snap/bin:/home/kyles/.vscode-server/bin/3866c3553be8b268c8a7f8c0482c0c0177aa8bfa/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/local/kubebuilder/bin). Check PATH, or Install Go and reload the window. If PATH isn't what you expected, see https://github.com/golang/vscode-go/issues/971

Commands on shell:
go env
GO111MODULE="" GOARCH="amd64" GOBIN="" GOCACHE="/home/kyles/.cache/go-build" GOENV="/home/kyles/.config/go/env" GOEXE="" GOFLAGS="" GOHOSTARCH="amd64" GOHOSTOS="linux" GOINSECURE="" GOMODCACHE="/home/kyles/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.15.6/global/pkg/mod" GONOPROXY="" GONOSUMDB="" GOOS="linux" GOPATH="/home/kyles/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.15.6/global" GOPRIVATE="" GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct" GOROOT="/home/kyles/.gvm/gos/go1.15.6" GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org" GOTMPDIR="" GOTOOLDIR="/home/kyles/.gvm/gos/go1.15.6/pkg/tool/linux_amd64" GCCGO="gccgo" AR="ar" CC="gcc" CXX="g++" CGO_ENABLED="1" GOMOD="" CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_CPPFLAGS="" CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2" PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config" GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build617534469=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

go version
go version go1.15.6 linux/amd64

echo $GOPATH
/home/kyles/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.15.6/global

code -v
1.59.1 3866c3553be8b268c8a7f8c0482c0c0177aa8bfa x64

[R2D34]

I also had the same problem.

Installing the go in the default directory suggested in go docs (/usr/local/go) solved the problem for me. Probably the extension uses some hard typed path resolution 😢 .

[kroksys]

I had this issue and resolved by overriding goroot variable in VSC.

1. Shift + Cmd + P
2. Search for: "open settings" and choose "Open Settings (JSON)"

3. $ go env and Copy GOROOT value (in my case its "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.17.1/libexec").
4. add new record to settings.json: "go.goroot": "Copied/GOROOT/path",
   in my case its: "go.goroot": "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.17.1/libexec",

Good luck!

[gcstang]

Why is this using a hardcoded path?

This is constantly erroring and the only current resolution was posted by @kroksys however this would need to be updated every time the version changes.

Please open this issue back up and fix it as the terminal works properly it's just this plugin that has an issue.
$ go version
go version go1.17.1 darwin/amd64