Command failed error when running `yo` after update to 3.1.0 on Windows

[patridge]

My environment

• OS version/details: Windows 10 (1903) 64-bit
• Node version: v12.13.0
• npm version: 6.12.0
• Version of yo : 3.1.0 (also affects 3.0.0, works fine on 2.0.6)

After updating my global install of Yeoman on Windows 10 (1903), I can no longer run the yo command successfully from any terminal I try: cmd, Windows PowerShell, or PowerShell Core.

Every time I try, I get an error about a failure from wmic os get Caption (message quoted below). This command, run on its own in a terminal, does indeed produce the Description = Unspecified error as this error message describes.

So far, the only command I can get to run successfully is yo --version, which returns 3.1.0.

Error message

> yo
C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\yo\node_modules\windows-release\node_modules\execa\index.js:347
                throw err;
                ^

Error: Command failed: wmic os get Caption
ERROR:
Description = Unspecified error


    at makeError (C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\yo\node_modules\windows-release\node_modules\execa\index.js:174:9)
    at Function.module.exports.sync (C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\yo\node_modules\windows-release\node_modules\execa\index.js:338:15)
    at windowsRelease (C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\yo\node_modules\windows-release\index.js:34:24)
    at osName (C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\yo\node_modules\os-name\index.js:39:18)
    at new Insight (C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\yo\node_modules\insight\lib\index.js:37:13)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\yo\lib\cli.js:54:17)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:956:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:973:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:812:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:724:14) {
  code: 2147500037,
  stdout: '',
  stderr: 'ERROR:\r\r\nDescription = Unspecified error\r\r\n',
  failed: true,
  signal: null,
  cmd: 'wmic os get Caption',
  timedOut: false
}

Attempts to fix

• I tried running the wmic os get Caption command from an administrator promt to see if that was the issue, but no luck.
• I tried restarting my terminal windows and even my entire machine after installing the update to Yeoman in case it was some PATH issue. No luck.
• I tried updating Node.js as well (with a cautionary restart afterwards). No luck.
• I reverted to [email protected]. No luck.
• [Successful workaround I was only able to fix this issue by rolling back to v2.0.6 (npm install -g [email protected])

Potentially related items

• I found another Yeoman issue where this was mentioned, but there wasn't any resolution yet.
• This issue on another project had a similar issue with wmic but they closed the issue as related to antivirus.

System info

Here's the information from the issue submission command.

>yo --version && echo %PATH% %NODE_PATH% && node -e "console.log(process.platform, process.versions)"
3.1.0
C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\PowerShell\6\;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Client SDK\ODBC\170\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Users\patridge\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin;C:\Users\patridge\AppData\Roaming\npm %NODE_PATH%                                                           win32 {
  node: '12.13.0',
  v8: '7.7.299.13-node.12',
  uv: '1.32.0',
  zlib: '1.2.11',
  brotli: '1.0.7',
  ares: '1.15.0',
  modules: '72',
  nghttp2: '1.39.2',
  napi: '5',
  llhttp: '1.1.4',
  http_parser: '2.8.0',
  openssl: '1.1.1d',
  cldr: '35.1',
  icu: '64.2',
  tz: '2019a',
  unicode: '12.1'                                                                                                       }

[mshima]

This is a windows-release package bug (https://github.com/sindresorhus/windows-release/issues/14).

Maybe you could try: https://github.com/apache/cordova-cli/issues/434#issuecomment-491292390