Failed to scan for dependencies from entries ... what does this mean?

[kaiyoma]

Describe the bug

While trying to migrate my webpack app to Vite, I'm getting this output:

Error:   Failed to scan for dependencies from entries:
  C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/index.html
C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/packages/cv-resource/docs/index.html
C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/packages/cv-resource/docs/modules.html
C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/packages/cv-rxjs/docs/index.html
C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/packages/cv-rxjs/docs/modules.html
C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/packages/cv-resource/docs/classes/src.Api.html
C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/packages/cv-resource/docs/functions/src.withStreamErrors.html
C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/packages/cv-resource/docs/interfaces/types.ResourceApiGrpc.html
C:/Users/kgetz/Work/event-viewer/packages/cv-resource/docs/interfaces/types.ServiceImplementation.html
...

Vite then goes on to list every HTML file in my repo for some reason. It shouldn't even be considering these files, because (a) they're documentation and (b) they're in my .gitignore. The output here doesn't explain what the problem is or how to fix it.

Reproduction

N/A

Steps to reproduce

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System Info

System:
    OS: Windows 10 10.0.22621
    CPU: (8) x64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
    Memory: 5.35 GB / 15.71 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.19.1 - C:\Program Files\Node.js\node.EXE
    npm: 9.6.2 - C:\Program Files\Node.js\npm.CMD
  Browsers:
    Edge: Spartan (44.22621.1702.0), Chromium (113.0.1774.50)
    Internet Explorer: 11.0.22621.1
  npmPackages:
    @vitejs/plugin-react: 4.0.0 => 4.0.0
    vite: 4.3.8 => 4.3.8

Used Package Manager

pnpm

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[bluwy]

Vite treats all possible HTML files as entries by default during scanning (a simple **/*.html glob from Vite root), since technically you can access /packages/cv-resource/docs/index.html from the Vite project too.

If that's not desirable, you can configure optimizeDeps.entries to change the entries. Maybe we can update the error message to show optimizeDeps.entries if you'd like to contribute.

[jkhartshorne]

So I get that, but then why is it failing to scan those files? (Getting similar errors here, too.)

[bluwy]

The error trace should show why at the bottom of the logs (after the list of files)

[NK0567]

bonjour à tous
je penses que j'ai le même problème que le camarades
<<
[plugin:vite:esbuild] The service is no longer running: write EPIPE
C:/Users/BORIS KALEFACK/Agroshop/src/main.jsx
at C:\Users\BORIS KALEFACK\Agroshop\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:816:29
at sendRequest (C:\Users\BORIS KALEFACK\Agroshop\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:693:14)
at start (C:\Users\BORIS KALEFACK\Agroshop\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:814:9)
at Object.transform2 [as transform] (C:\Users\BORIS KALEFACK\Agroshop\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:879:5)
at C:\Users\BORIS KALEFACK\Agroshop\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:2180:77
at new Promise ()
at Object.transform (C:\Users\BORIS KALEFACK\Agroshop\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:2180:36)
at transform (C:\Users\BORIS KALEFACK\Agroshop\node_modules\esbuild\lib\main.js:2013:62)
at transformWithEsbuild (file:///C:/Users/BORIS%20KALEFACK/Agroshop/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-e8f070e8.js:13796:30)
at TransformContext.transform (file:///C:/Users/BORIS%20KALEFACK/Agroshop/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-e8f070e8.js:13866:38)
at Object.transform (file:///C:/Users/BORIS%20KALEFACK/Agroshop/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-e8f070e8.js:42919:44)
at async loadAndTransform (file:///C:/Users/BORIS%20KALEFACK/Agroshop/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-e8f070e8.js:53385:29
Click outside or fix the code to dismiss.
You can also disable this overlay by setting server.hmr.overlay to false in vite.config.js

svp comment je peux resoudre ça ?

[deh2o]

All i had to do was just to:

1. disable my antivirus software
2. run npm rm -r node_modules
3. run npm cache clean --force
4. finally run npm install.
5. then try running npm run dev again
   This solved the issue for me

[ZakariyaeOuazzanix]

Thansk a lot !
That saved my problem too

[Romuad-Zoungla]

Merci bien!

[ImadAayach]

Good man

[hexrw]

I had a similar issue ([ERROR] [vite] Error: Failed to scan for dependencies from entries) and I solved this by running bun install esbuild. So perhaps this will help someone too. Seems to possible be related to esbuild or related packages failing to detect the architecture properly. I'm running on Apple Silicon with Bun as the pm.