Closed as not planned
Description
- This is a companion issue to ps-tree on Windows 11 24H2 crashes - wmic not part of windows any more #58 for Windows Server 2025.
ps-tree has a dependency on the deprecated Windows Management Instrumentation command-line (WMIC) utility
Issue
ps-tree fails under GitHub Actions windows-2025 with the error
Error: spawn wmic.exe ENOENT
ps-tree depends on wmic.
For Microsoft Windows Servers, wmic has been deprecated since 2016 and it is not installed by default on Windows Server 2025 (see Features we're no longer developing).
The GitHub Actions runner image windows-2025, currently in beta status, does not include WMIC, and there are no plans to add it. (See Windows Server 2025 is now in public preview).
Steps to reproduce
Run the following workflow in this repo in GitHub Actions
name: ci-test
on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
jobs:
ps-tree-ci:
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
node: [22]
os: [windows-2025]
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
steps:
- name: Setup Node
uses: actions/setup-node@v4
with:
node-version: ${{ matrix.node }}
- run: node -v
- run: npm -v
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- run: npm ci
- run: npm test
- run: npm run coverageLogs
Run npm test
> [email protected] test
> istanbul cover node_modules/tape/bin/tape test/test.js
TAP version 13
# Spawn a Parent process which has ten Child processes
=============================================================================
Writing coverage object [D:\a\ps-tree\ps-tree\coverage\coverage.json]
Writing coverage reports at [D:\a\ps-tree\ps-tree\coverage]
=============================================================================
=============================== Coverage summary ===============================
Statements : 27.5% ( 11/40 )
Branches : 16.67% ( 3/18 )
Functions : 20% ( 1/5 )
Lines : 27.5% ( 11/40 )
================================================================================
node:events:502
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: spawn wmic.exe ENOENT
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:285:19)
at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:483:16)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21)
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:291:12)
at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:483:16)
at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:90:21) {
errno: -4058,
code: 'ENOENT',
syscall: 'spawn wmic.exe',
path: 'wmic.exe',
spawnargs: [ 'PROCESS', 'GET', 'Name,ProcessId,ParentProcessId,Status' ]
}
Node.js v22.12.0
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.
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