ERROR: Environment does not contain activate script.

[quantitative-technologies]

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.2 on an AWS server.

virtualenvwrapper was installed the same way I have done for years.

But now when I try to create a virtualenv I get the error:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-36-200:~$ mkvirtualenv bot 
created virtual environment CPython3.10.12.final.0-64 in 1039ms 
 creator CPython3Posix(dest=/home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/bot, clear=False, no_vcs_ignore=False, global=False) 
 seeder FromAppData(download=False, pip=bundle, setuptools=bundle, wheel=bundle, via=copy, app_data_dir=/home/ubuntu/.local/share/virtualenv) 
 added seed packages: pip==24.1, setuptools==70.1.0, wheel==0.43.0 
 activators BashActivator,CShellActivator,FishActivator,NushellActivator,PowerShellActivator,PythonActivator 
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/bot/bin/predeactivate 
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/bot/bin/postdeactivate 
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/bot/bin/preactivate 
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/bot/bin/postactivate 
virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/bot/bin/get_env_details 
ERROR: Environment '/home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/bot' does not contain an activate script. 

[dhellmann]

Which version of virtualenv are you using?

[quantitative-technologies]

Hello,

This is occurring with 20.26.3:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-36-200:~$ pip show virtualenv
Name: virtualenv
Version: 20.26.3
Summary: Virtual Python Environment builder
Home-page: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv
Author: 
Author-email: 
License: 
Location: /home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages
Requires: distlib, filelock, platformdirs
Required-by: virtualenvwrapper

[dhellmann]

Does /home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/bot/bin/activate exist and is it a file?

[quantitative-technologies]

Correct:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-36-200:~/.virtualenvs/bot/bin$ ls -l
total 76
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 2241 Jun 24 22:21 activate
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1500 Jun 24 22:21 activate.csh
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3064 Jun 24 22:21 activate.fish
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 2748 Jun 24 22:21 activate.nu
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1653 Jun 24 22:21 activate.ps1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1303 Jun 24 22:21 activate_this.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 150 Jun 24 22:21 get_env_details
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 245 Jun 24 22:21 pip
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 245 Jun 24 22:21 pip-3.10
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 245 Jun 24 22:21 pip3
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 245 Jun 24 22:21 pip3.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 72 Jun 24 22:21 postactivate
-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 74 Jun 24 22:21 postdeactivate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 69 Jun 24 22:21 preactivate
-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 75 Jun 24 22:21 predeactivate
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 16 Jun 24 22:21 python -> /usr/bin/python3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 6 Jun 24 22:21 python3 -> python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ubuntu ubuntu 6 Jun 24 22:21 python3.10 -> python
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 232 Jun 24 22:21 wheel
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 232 Jun 24 22:21 wheel-3.10
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 232 Jun 24 22:21 wheel3
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 232 Jun 24 22:21 wheel3.10

[dhellmann]

Do you have any other overrides or shell aliases for commands like ls or find? What other virtualenvwrapper settings do you have configured?

[jvernonc]

I received this message in a very different environment: using Windows python from an msys2/ucrt64 shell. The VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_ENV_BIN_DIR was not set correctly because UCRT64 is not considered in the cases for the MSYSTEM variable. Everything seems to work properly now that I added that test.

It would/could be helpful to dump all VIRTUALENVWRAPPER environment variables in cases like this.