PSScriptAnalyzer not running when no settings file present

[rjmholt]

From #2484.

Currently under investigation

[rjmholt]

Looking into this, I've tried to reproduce the issue but I get the default experience.

In the logs I have the following entry:

2020-02-24 11:35:05.143 -08:00 [INF] PSScriptAnalyzer settings file not found. Falling back to default rules

@bergmeister would you be able to provide more information about the repro steps for this issue?

[bergmeister]

@rjmholt I tried to clean everything: did a 'git clean -dfx' on the the vs-code and PSES repo and made sure I had the latest changes on master. Using pwsh 7-rc2 (waiting for chocolatey to update to rc3...). Usually I also use the latest master version of pssa, I deleted that one and now use the out of box version of pssa as well. However, PSSA still does not work. OS is Windows 1909. Building using RTM version of code. NPM version is 6.3.14. I just build it the usual way by doing an invoke-build build in pses and then press F5 in the vscode repo and do something like typing gci to see a PSSA warning on it, either in a file or an unsaved in-memory file and I don't see any PSSA warnings or squiggles..
Let me try supply some logs

[rjmholt]

Let me try supply some logs

Yeah I'm hoping some info will be in there. Rewriting the analysis service I added extra logging, so we should know what's going on there

[bergmeister]

EditorServices.log
StartEditorServices.log
vscode-powershell.log

In there is see (I set the choco git repo as an example root folder because it does not have a settings file):

2020-02-24 22:44:26.519 +00:00 [ERR] Cannot find the path 'c:\Users\christoph.bergmeiste\git\choco\PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1'.

Tomorrow, I can also try on a 2nd machine or would it be more useful if I give you my local build? Here is the vsix (which I just renamed to .zip so that Github allows me to upload it)
PowerShell-insiders.zip

[rjmholt]

Interesting. This also contains the line:

2020-02-24 22:44:22.265 +00:00 [INF] Configuring PSScriptAnalyzer with rules at 'c:\Users\christoph.bergmeiste\git\choco\PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1

[bergmeister]

The repo in question is a 6 month old version of https://github.com/chocolatey/choco
But I tried different folders, so it is not a problem specific to this repo and as I said I tried both physical files or in-memory files. Could it be because you guys run your dev env mostly on Unix systems and not Windows?

[rjmholt]

Is it possible you're starting PSES with a settings file present on the file system, but later removing it?

[bergmeister]

I don't think so, I've even tried to re-open a new folder. Since I know how to build PSES, etc myself, I'll have a look at the new code that you guys recently added (which looks exciting and amazing overall btw) and attach the debugger

[rjmholt]

Could it be because you guys run your dev env mostly on Unix systems and not Windows?

I'm almost always on Windows, both in the office and at home. My daily driver in the office is Windows 10.0.19535 (right now, I'm sure I'll get another update in the week).

I'm still not quite sure what's going on here, but if you're able to debug it you might be able to find the source of that error log (it's not one of our messages). If it's coming from a caught error, it might be somewhere where we need to include a stack trace and don't currently.