bug: SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'E', "Error: spawn ENOTDIR" is not valid JSON (Yarn Plug'n'Play)

[bitjson]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

❯ yarn cap doctor    
💊   Capacitor Doctor  💊 

Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 4.6.0
  @capacitor/core: 4.6.0
  @capacitor/android: 4.6.0
  @capacitor/ios: 4.6.0

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/android: not installed
  @capacitor/cli: 4.5.0
  @capacitor/core: 4.5.0
  @capacitor/ios: 4.5.0

[success] iOS looking great! 👌

Platform(s)

• iOS

Current Behavior

❯ yarn cap run ios -l --external      
✔ Copying web assets from build to ios/App/App/public in 31.11ms
✔ Creating capacitor.config.json in ios/App/App in 792.54μs
[info] Inlining sourcemaps
✔ copy ios in 94.23ms
✔ Updating iOS plugins in 6.29ms
[info] Found 4 Capacitor plugins for ios:
       @capacitor/[email protected]
       @capacitor/[email protected]
       @capacitor/[email protected]
       @capacitor/[email protected]
✔ Updating iOS native dependencies with pod install in 3.25s
✔ update ios in 3.27s
[error] SyntaxError: Unexpected token 'E', "Error: spawn ENOTDIR" is not valid JSON
        at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
        at Object.getPlatformTargets
        (/[...]/.yarn/cache/@capacitor-cli-npm-4.5.0-b394afdec0-4e8a545462.zip/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/util/native-run.js:39:26)
        at async Object.runIOS
        (/[...]/.yarn/cache/@capacitor-cli-npm-4.5.0-b394afdec0-4e8a545462.zip/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/ios/run.js:13:59)
        at async run
        (/[...]/.yarn/cache/@capacitor-cli-npm-4.5.0-b394afdec0-4e8a545462.zip/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/tasks/run.js:74:9)
        at async runCommand
        (/[...]/.yarn/cache/@capacitor-cli-npm-4.5.0-b394afdec0-4e8a545462.zip/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/tasks/run.js:61:13)
        at async
        /[...]/.yarn/cache/@capacitor-cli-npm-4.5.0-b394afdec0-4e8a545462.zip/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/index.js:123:9
        at async
        /[...]/.yarn/cache/@capacitor-cli-npm-4.5.0-b394afdec0-4e8a545462.zip/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/telemetry.js:26:13
        at async Command.<anonymous>
        (/[...]/.yarn/cache/@capacitor-cli-npm-4.5.0-b394afdec0-4e8a545462.zip/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/util/cli.js:12:13)

Expected Behavior

Expected to be able to run the app on an external device successfully.

Code Reproduction

ionic start blank blank --type=react --capacitor
cd blank
yarn set version latest
yarn capacitor add ios
yarn cap run ios -l --external
# or: yarn ionic cap run ios -l --external

Other Technical Details

yarn --version output: 3.3.0

node --version output: v19.2.0

pod --version output (iOS issues only): 1.11.3

[jcesarmobile]

Can you provide a sample app?
Those steps to reproduce don't seem correct, yarn capacitor add ios should fail as you haven't installed @capacitor/ios and yarn cap run ios -l --external is not correct neither, -l --external have no effect on capacitor run command, maybe you are using ionic instead of yarn? (i.e. ionic capacitor add ios)

Can you run npx native-run ios --list --json? looks like it's returning some error instead of the json with the list of the simulator/devices you have.

[Ionitron]

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Ionitron 💙

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