[Ubuntu 19.04, UH 2.0.1] Cannot add existing projects to the list

Unity Engine
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Hello, I’m using Unity Hub 2.0.1 (but got the issue on 2.0, when installed Hub) and I can’t open any of my existing projects, no clue about editor versions.
So, when I click “Add” button, I get the file explorer as usual, but when I select a project, nothing happens.
Hub seems to recognize project folders, because I get a message when I select a random folder that is not a Unity project, but it doesn’t update the list anyways, so I can’t get access to my projects.
I can also create a new project and then the editor opens, but to open existing project I still need Hub.

I don’t know what data to give, so feel free to ask it: I will check this thread very often to get some answers.
Thanks for reading at least…

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Create new blank project and open it.
Close Unity and Unity Hub.
Try to add your project again.

This helps to me.

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Check if your project folder has any non-english characters. I just renamed mine to english and it worked right away.
Looks like a regression.

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Hi there,

I heard that we have this issue in other threads. Would you please report a bug and we can see why the add does not work?
@elhana_unity We tested with non-english chars (and even emojis) and it should work. I am wondering if you can share the character that causes the issue with us.

Thanks,
Afshin

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@afshinity I’ve sent a bug report already.
Maybe it is not character related, but my path is:
/opt/Unity/Projects/тест - wont work, last 4 are russian
/opt/Unity/Projects/test - works.

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Slightly different path, I checked if fs settings matter…

strace (if it helps):
stat(“/home/elhana/Unity/proj/B5AB”, 0x7fffdabffb60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, “/home/elhana/Unity/proj/B5AB/ProjectSettings/ProjectVersion.txt”, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
openat(AT_FDCWD, “/home/elhana/Unity/proj/B5AB/ProjectSettings/ProjectSettings.asset”, O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

elhana@stellarwind:~ ls -la /home/elhana/Unity/proj/ итого 15 drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 3 июн 11 09:11 . drwxrwxrwx 10 elhana elhana 11 июн 11 09:07 .. drwxrwxrwx 11 elhana elhana 15 июн 11 09:10 тест elhana@stellarwind:~ ls -la /home/elhana/Unity/proj/тест/ProjectSettings/Project*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 elhana elhana 52884 июн 4 02:29 /home/elhana/Unity/proj/тест/ProjectSettings/ProjectSettings.asset
-rwxrw-rw- 1 elhana elhana 85 июн 3 00:17 /home/elhana/Unity/proj/тест/ProjectSettings/ProjectVersion.txt

p.s. Case: 1161713
p.p.s. Looks like utf-16be (last bytes??):

b’\x04B\x045\x04A\x04B’.decode(‘utf-16be’)==u’тест’
True

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I, too, am experiencing this issue. I do not have any non-english characters in the path. I can see that, in the only log available to me, that UnityHub is trying to perform a read operation on a directory that I try to open. The following is the excerpt from ~/.config/UnityHub/logs/info-log.json:

{"moduleName":"EditorPrefLinux","level":"warn","message":"[ { Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read errno: -21, code: 'EISDIR', syscall: 'read' } ]","timestamp":"2019-06-12T06:59:07.059Z"}
{"moduleName":"EditorPrefLinux","level":"warn","message":"[ { Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read errno: -21, code: 'EISDIR', syscall: 'read' } ]","timestamp":"2019-06-12T06:59:07.060Z"}

I obtained this with tail -f ~/config/Unity/logs/info-log.json and observing the new entries as they happen. The two entries above are the only entries that appear when opening a project.

In the end, I cannot open any of my projects, which stalls my work. Any attempts to open Unity itself and then open a project through the Editor brings me to Hub in a cruel circle. I have access to a laptop that I can work on in the meantime (exact same versions of exact same software packages) where this issue does not arise. Thankfully, this has allowed me to work, but a 2015 laptop with built-in GPU is not nearly as pleasant to work with as my Ryzen 2700 machine :slight_smile:

Are there other logs that I can look at to get a glimpse of what is going wrong? Is there an open bug report that I can attach logs to? As my client is paying for a Pro subscription, is there another avenue of help that I can explore to resolve this issue?

I am grateful for any help you can provide. I cannot attach a JSON file to this post, so I have uploaded the log to PasteBin: UnityHub Log - Pastebin.com

[EDIT] Here is a tidier log file UnityHub Log - Pastebin.com that is from a clean install of Unity Hub 2.0.1. Issue persists.

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Hi,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Currently, it seems there is issue with Non-latin based character project name in the Hub on Linux (works for Windows and Mac). We have noted it and will fix it in later update.
For a workaround for the time being, you may rename the project folder to an English name.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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I have double checked my path and can confirm that I do not have any non-latin characters:
/home/dabr/git/gitlab.com/acoemab/ex-hsa-vsa

So while I suffer the same end result, I do not appear to have the same underlying issue as elhana_unity. I will add this to the issue, unless it is clear from the logs that I uploaded that I am using non-latin characters?

For anyone else stumbling upon this issue, the issue in the tracker is https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/hub-linux-projects-with-non-latin-letters-cannot-be-added-to-the-list-of-projects-in-hub

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I do not have any non-latin characters in my projects name, but some of them have spaces. Could it cause the issue?

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Hi,
i’d the same bug in Archlinux so support won’t to consider this bug.
The solution i found is to load project with Editor directly, after project appears in Hub :

/home/alt3r3d/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.1.7f1/Editor/Unity -projectPath /home/alt3r3d/Projects/MyProjet

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I tried this once again and double-checked my path
Here it is: /home/alt3r3d/Projects/some random test
This still didn’t work…

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Hey, I’ve tried this, but I got the following:

npm ERR! missing: unity-editor-home@2.2.1, required by unity-editor@5.7.0
npm ERR! missing: unityeditor-cloud-hub@0.0.15, required by unity-editor@5.7.0
npm ERR! missing: unityeditor-collab-toolbar@0.7.16, required by unity-editor@5.7.0

Do I need to just install these?

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Oh gosh, I’ve solved the problem. First, I copied wrong folder so Unity thought this is not a valid project, and second, I had non-latin characters (actually didn’t check this with the right folder yet) in my path.

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I tried to invoke the Editor from the terminal with the -projectPath switch but, for some perverse reason, I end up with the Hub opened with no projects in the project window.

Since you are an Arch user, can you provide me a list of your installed packages? I feel that I must be missing an implicit dependency somewhere…

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Sure :
unityhub (AUR)
dotnet-sdk (dotnet-host and dotnet-runtime installed as dependencies) (community)
referenceassemblies-pcl (mono installed as dependency) (community)
referenceassemblies-2.0-bin (AUR)
referenceassemblies-3.5-bin (AUR)
msbuild-stable (AUR)
visual-studio-code-bin (AUR)

i also install unity-editor (AUR) dependencies :
fontconfig
libxst
gtk3
python
cairo
alsa-lib
nss
gcc-libs
libnotify
libxss
glibc
lsof

gvfs
jq

in visual studio code i install extensions :
french
unity3d-pack

if you tell me your graphics card(s) i can help you to install properly drivers

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Thanks for the help. I have the correct drivers installed for my GPU (xf86-video-amdgpu and mesa). I have opened up a thread on the Arch forums in the hope that somebody there will know of something. Here is the link to the thread Unity3D projects not opening from UnityHub / Newbie Corner / Arch Linux Forums

I did not have the dotnet sdk, nor msbuild, but they don’t appear to make a difference anyway. Thanks for the help.

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Dotnet and Msbuild are for VSCode