VSCode Databricks-Connect can't find config file, says it doesn't exist, but it does

william_dev — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:53:58 GMT

Hi all,

I am getting an error that I previously didn't have within VSCode when authenticating to Databricks-Connect in PowerShell.

When I run "databricks auth login" and choose a profile, I get the following:

> Error: cannot load Databricks config file: open ‪C:\Users\my.username\Luigi\.databrickscfg: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

My configuration file has not changed since it last worked. I have the values setup in PATH as well as a configuration file. The file environment variable also exists. I have also tried overriding the path in the extension settings. Nothing has worked. The log is providing a path to a file that does exist, however its telling me it doesn't.

I have tried putting the file into my %USERNAME% folder, C:\, even in my venv/Scripts path in case it was a user permissions issue and PS was running under another account.

The account is also an administrator account. The VM is a Windows Server 2016 Standard.

Not sure why this has happened and I can't find anything else on Google. Has this happened to anybody else?

In addition to this, I have tried deleting the file and creating a new config file through the extension, but it is telling me that "Authentication using OAuth U2M failed. Select a different method." - I've never seen this either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks guys

Re: VSCode Databricks-Connect can't find config file, says it doesn't exist, but it does

saurabh18cs — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:15:11 GMT

- Prerequisites
- Databricks CLI installed
- Match your databricks-connect version with your cluster runtime (e.g. runtime 14.3 LTS, needs databricks-connect 14.3.x)
- Match your local python installation with the Databricks Python version.
- Databricks extension installed on VSCode.
- A cluster available on Databricks (and preferably running, or started)
Authenticate from VSCode using Databricks CLI:
databricks auth login --host https://adb-841xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.azuredatabricks.net/

Above command will create a auth profile you can use in the VSCode extension connection:

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