Error while parsing Capacitor CLI version.

[nchrysis]

Description:
Running command: ionic cap run android -l --external failed instantly with message:
[ERROR] Error while parsing Capacitor CLI version.
This happens on versions of @ionic/cli >= 6.16.0. On versions earlier than 6.16.0 app runs successfully with no problems.
I had installed latest version of @ionic/cli with the command: npm i -g @ionic/cli

ionic cap run android -l --external --verbose
Output:

ionic:lib Terminal info: { ci: false, shell: '/bin/zsh', tty: true, windows: false } +0ms
ionic:lib CLI global options: { _: [ 'cap', 'run', 'android' ], help: null, h: null, verbose: true, quiet: null, interactive: true, color: true, confirm: null, json: null, l: true, external: true, project: null, '--': [] } +2ms
ionic:lib:project Project type from config: @ionic/react (react) +0ms
ionic:lib:project Project details: { context: 'app', type: 'react', errors: [], configPath: '/home/USER/APP/PATH/ionic.config.json' } +1ms
ionic Context: { binPath: '/home/USER/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@ionic/cli/bin/ionic', libPath: '/home/USER/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@ionic/cli', execPath: '/home/USER/APP/PATH/', version: '6.16.1' } +0ms
[ERROR] Error while parsing Capacitor CLI version.
ionic:utils-process onBeforeExit handler: 'process.exit' received +0ms
ionic:utils-process onBeforeExit handler: running 0 functions +0ms
ionic:utils-process processExit: exiting (exit code: 1) +0ms

My ionic info:

Ionic:

   Ionic CLI       : 6.16.3 (/home/USER/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/@ionic/cli)
   Ionic Framework : @ionic/react 5.6.9

Capacitor:

   Capacitor CLI   : [warn] The hideLogs configuration option has been deprecated. Please update to use loggingBehavior instead. 3.0.1
   @capacitor/core : 3.0.1

Utility:

   cordova-res : not installed
   native-run  : 1.4.0

System:

   NodeJS : v14.16.0 (/usr/bin/node)
   npm    : 7.15.1
   OS     : Linux 5.9

Using version 6.15.0 of @ionic/cli seems to have fixed the issue for me but sadly I cannot use the latest version yet.

[ItayElgazar]

same here. any ideas?

[ItayElgazar]

bump?

[jcesarmobile]

there was an issue open on Capacitor repo about capacitor doctor command not working on linux

ionic-team/capacitor#3747

but looks like it works fine in Capacitor 3

can you try running npx cap doctor directly and if you get an error comment on the issue I provided?

[jcesarmobile]

I've been able to reproduce, the problem is you have hideLogs in you capacitor.config.json file, which is deprecated, which makes the CLI show a warning about it being deprecated, which breaks the version parsing.

You can solve it by moving to loggingBehavior, but should be fixed anyway

[nchrysis]

Today I changed to loggingBehavior because I saw that warning. Have not yet bumped @ionic/cli to latest version. Will let you know if it fixed the issue for me. Thank you very much!

[jcesarmobile]

Will be fixed in next @capacitor/cli release
ionic-team/capacitor#4813