Issue: poetry remove <package-name> fails

[mraabhijit]

Hello,

I am new to using poetry and so I was trying to remove a pre-installed package using poetry remove.
Ideally, this should be straight forward and remove the package while updating the .lock file.

However, it says that the operation has failed. Below is the trace of the error message I get. Any help would be much appreciated.

Updating dependencies
Resolving dependencies... (0.1s)

Package operations: 0 installs, 0 updates, 1 removal

  - Removing h5py (3.12.1): Failed

  CalledProcessError

  Command '['C:\\Users\\<user>\\Miniconda\\envs\\dare\\Scripts\\python.exe', '-m', 'pip', 'uninstall', 'h5py', '-y']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

  at ~\Miniconda\Lib\subprocess.py:571 in run
       567│             # We don't call process.wait() as .__exit__ does that for us.
       568│             raise
       569│         retcode = process.poll()
       570│         if check and retcode:
    →  571│             raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
       572│                                      output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
       573│     return CompletedProcess(process.args, retcode, stdout, stderr)
       574│
       575│

The following error occurred when trying to handle this error:


  EnvCommandError

  Command ['C:\\Users\\<user>\\Miniconda\\envs\\dare\\Scripts\\python.exe', '-m', 'pip', 'uninstall', 'h5py', '-y'] errored with the following return code 1

  Output:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
    File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\__main__.py", line 24, in <module>
      sys.exit(_main())
               ^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\main.py", line 65, in main
      cmd_name, cmd_args = parse_command(args)
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\main_parser.py", line 79, in parse_command
      general_options, args_else = parser.parse_args(args)
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\optparse.py", line 1371, in parse_args
      values = self.get_default_values()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\parser.py", line 279, in get_default_values
      self.config.load()
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\configuration.py", line 124, in load
      self._load_config_files()
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\configuration.py", line 246, in _load_config_files
      config_files = dict(self.iter_config_files())
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\configuration.py", line 339, in iter_config_files
      config_files = get_configuration_files()
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\configuration.py", line 70, in get_configuration_files
      os.path.join(path, CONFIG_BASENAME) for path in appdirs.site_config_dirs("pip")
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\utils\appdirs.py", line 47, in site_config_dirs
      dirval = _appdirs.site_config_dir(appname, appauthor=False, multipath=True)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\platformdirs\__init__.py", line 142, in site_config_dir
      ).site_config_dir
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\platformdirs\windows.py", line 67, in site_config_dir
      return self.site_data_dir
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\platformdirs\windows.py", line 56, in site_data_dir
      path = os.path.normpath(get_win_folder("CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA"))
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    File "C:\Users\<user>\Miniconda\envs\dare\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\platformdirs\windows.py", line 209, in get_win_folder_from_registry
      directory, _ = winreg.QueryValueEx(key, shell_folder_name)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified


  at ~\AppData\Roaming\pypoetry\venv\Lib\site-packages\poetry\utils\env\base_env.py:342 in _run
      338│                 output = subprocess.check_output(
      339│                     cmd, stderr=stderr, env=env, text=True, **kwargs
      340│                 )
      341│         except CalledProcessError as e:
    → 342│             raise EnvCommandError(e)
      343│
      344│         return output
      345│
      346│     def execute(self, bin: str, *args: str, **kwargs: Any) -> int:

Cannot install h5py.

[dimbleby]

as you can see, this is just shelling out to pip.

Command '['C:\Users\\Miniconda\envs\dare\Scripts\python.exe', '-m', 'pip', 'uninstall', 'h5py', '-y']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

you'll want to verify that running that command manually fails in the same way and then figure out what is wrong with your pip installation.

(or it might be easier just to delete and recreate the virtualenv)