How do I debug “Error: spawn ENOENT” on node.js?

Question

When I get the following error:

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled \'error\' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (chil         


        

Answer 1

Although it may be an environment path or another issue for some people, I had just installed the Latex Workshop extension for Visual Studio Code on Windows 10 and saw this error when attempting to build/preview the PDF. Running VS Code as Administrator solved the problem for me.