(general): hundreds of nested cdk.out/asset directories in %temp% broke Windows

[beatyt]

❓ General Issue

The Question

Original problem: Windows machine after a restart was hanging at "Please wait for the User Profile Service" [1]. I let it run over night and had no success.

After some investigating, I tried to delete my user %TEMP% directory. The only thing that failed to delete was a CDK.out asset directory. I used robocopy to delete the many nested directories. [2] [3] [4]

Resolution: After 30 minutes of running a command, all of the nested directories were deleted and I was able to restart my machine.

It should be noted I've also been using VSCode as my IDE. It could be contributing or causing the issue as well?

Environment

• CDK CLI Version: 1.74.0 (build e86602f)
• Module Version: n/a
• Node.js Version: v12.13.0
• OS: Windows 10 Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.959)
• Language (Version): TypeScript 4.0.3

Other information

(#1) The original problem and error message.

(#2) Many nested cdk.out asset directories

(#3) Running the delete

(#4) The result of deletion - robocopy newTempFolder Temp /purge was the command I ran to delete everything in Temp

Thank you and please let me know if anything needs clarifying or more info. I can share the CDK project I was playing with if that would help.

[NetaNir]

Hi @beatyt!

Sorry about that!

To help us debug this, can you share if this happen after upgrading your CDK version? If so, what version were you upgrading from?

Thanks!

[NGL321]

Hey @beatyt,

Thanks for reporting this, and sorry you ran into it! It would be super helpful to get a little more information on this so we can better investigate and try to reproduce.

The following info would be great:

• Minimum sample code for reproduction (what were you actually building)
• As @NetaNir mentioned, if the code worked with a different version, which version upgrade caused the problem?

That should give us enough to start looking into what caused this 😄

😸 😷

[beatyt]

I've just been playing with CDK off and on. Not really a previous version that I can say worked.

I have a mix of versions: https://github.com/beatyt/typescript-web-api-with-aws-cdk/blob/master/infrastructure/package.json#L34 so I should probably fix those and upgrade to latest.

@aws-cdk/core & aws-cdk is 1.67.0

Sample project: https://github.com/beatyt/typescript-web-api-with-aws-cdk/tree/master/infrastructure

The project is broken into an ./application and ./infrastructure directory, the CDK stuff is in ./infrastructure.