Force.com CLI error

Question

I am testing Force.com CLI. I can autenticate but any else. I get this error in OSX- El capitan

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

http://screencast.com/t/K87zZbHUFfj

Any idea?

Answer 1

The error message you received is not exclusive to the Force.com CLI, but it is due to the program attempting to access an invalid memory address or dereferencing a nil pointer and Go (the language the program is written in) throwing a runtime error.

According to the screenshot in your post, you receive the following error message after attempting to run the force log command:

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference

[signal 0xb code=0x1 addr=0x0 pc=0x2b9d9]

According to the Go Documentation, the signal 0xb represents a SIGSEGV (segmentation violation).

Some common causes of this type of runtime error include:

• Dereferencing a nil pointer
• Attempting to access an array element that is out of bounds
• Attempting to access memory for which the program does not have ownership
• Attempting to access too much memory
• Attempting to use an uninitialized pointer

One user had a similar problem when attempting to use the Force.com CLI on OS X El Capitan and was able to resolve the issue by changing the permissions on ~/.force/current/account to be readable by the current user, rather than just the root user.