I tried to install an extension into my newly installed Brackets. For some reason, it failed! Here are my notes to troubleshoot.
The error I get is: “Installation failed. Unknown internal error.”
My first step troubleshooting was to open the developer tools in Brackets. It’s under Debug > Show Developer Tools or F12.
I saw these errors of interest:
- WebSocket connection to ‘ws://localhost:40283/’ failed: Unexpected response code: 401
- [Extension] Error — could not read native directory: /home/skp/.config/Brackets/extensions/user
- Unknown installation error extensionManager domain is undefined
Note: The last one is the one that happens each time I attempt to install.
I attempted to create that directory…
mkdir ~/.config/Brackets/extensions
That made the error go away but didn’t have anything to do with not being able to install extensions.
I think that this is the real issue, and the ticket is still open:
WebSocket connection failed / Undefined Node
I checked to see if the port was open. Now, my error is:
WebSocket connection to ‘ws://localhost:34273/’ failed: Unexpected response code: 401
So, I checked for that port:
netstat -ntlp | grep 34273
No results. I can see all of the ports with:
netstat -ntlp | grep LISTEN
I can see the node process:
$ ps -ef | grep -i node
skp 9789 9764 0 18:21 pts/20 00:00:00 /opt/brackets/Brackets-node /opt/brackets/node-core
I don’t see that it has any ports open:
sudo netstat -ntlp | grep 9977
Update 6/17/2016: Version 1.7 is updated and fixed now.