skaffold dev: FATA[0002] watching files for deployer: listing files: unable to stat file : stat : no such file or directory

[jfrndz]

This may be a duplicate of #961, but I am seeing this issue independently of basel artifacts or helm deployments so seemed like a good idea to report as a new issue.

Expected behavior

I should be able to use skaffold dev to watch my source repo directory and automatically deploy changes.

Actual behavior

skaffold dev immediately exits with an error. I am able to deploy changes manually using skaffold run. This seems to happen consistently with every project I've tried.

Here's some console output when I try this with the setup in examples/helm-deployment:

$ skaffold run
Starting build...
Found [minikube] context, using local docker daemon.
Building [gcr.io/k8s-skaffold/skaffold-helm]...
2018/09/11 10:13:11 No matching credentials found for index.docker.io, falling back on anonymous
Sending build context to Docker daemon  2.048kB
Step 1/1 : FROM nginx:stable
stable: Pulling from library/nginx
802b00ed6f79: Pulling fs layer
ed418bf9bf60: Pulling fs layer
94fedb7de3b4: Pulling fs layer
94fedb7de3b4: Verifying Checksum
94fedb7de3b4: Download complete
802b00ed6f79: Verifying Checksum
802b00ed6f79: Download complete
ed418bf9bf60: Verifying Checksum
ed418bf9bf60: Download complete
802b00ed6f79: Pull complete
ed418bf9bf60: Pull complete
94fedb7de3b4: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:2fa968a4b4013c2521115f6dde277958cf03229b95f13a0c8df831d3eca1aa61
Status: Downloaded newer image for nginx:stable
 ---> 86898218889a
Successfully built 86898218889a
Successfully tagged 7f1dc414a8d3350fda5f71e15321cb98:latest
Build complete in 9.631506389s
Starting deploy...
Error: release: "skaffold-helm" not found
Helm release skaffold-helm not installed. Installing...
No requirements found in skaffold-helm/charts.
NAME:   skaffold-helm
LAST DEPLOYED: Tue Sep 11 10:13:19 2018
NAMESPACE: default
STATUS: DEPLOYED

RESOURCES:
==> v1/Service
NAME                         TYPE       CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP  PORT(S)  AGE
skaffold-helm-skaffold-helm  ClusterIP  10.103.26.183  <none>       80/TCP   1s

==> v1beta1/Deployment
NAME           DESIRED  CURRENT  UP-TO-DATE  AVAILABLE  AGE
skaffold-helm  1        1        1           0          1s

==> v1/Pod(related)
NAME                            READY  STATUS             RESTARTS  AGE
skaffold-helm-594bb494b9-69t66  0/1    ContainerCreating  0         0s


Deploy complete in 933.794901ms

$ skaffold dev
Cleaning up...
release "skaffold-helm" deleted
Cleanup complete in 1.282362725s
FATA[0002] watching files for deployer: listing files: unable to stat file : stat : no such file or directory 

Information

• Skaffold version: v0.13.0
• Operating system: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
• Contents of skaffold.yaml: examples/helm-deployment/skaffold.yml

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Clone this repo and go to examples/helm-deployment
2. skaffold run successfully builds and deploys the app
3. skaffold dev exits with error

[jfrndz]

#930 seems to describe a similar issue, so I set up a dummy values file to use as a valuesFilePath in skaffold.yaml. Once configured, skaffold dev works as expected.

$ cat helm-skaffold-values.yaml 
# Need this to prevent a bug
statWorkaround: true

[balopat]

Yes, #930 seems to be a fix for this, please stay tuned.

[dgageot]

Fixed by #930