*This error should have bubbled through to the cli I think*
Starting the daemon when the node binaries are not downloaded on Windows doesn't work first time, logs below. Looking at appcd-nodejs it only handles EXTBUSY which I think is unixy, windows is EBUSY
C:\Users\Archibald Thornburnt>appc appcd start --debug
Appcelerator Command-Line Interface, version 7.0.0-master.44
Copyright (c) 2014-2017, Appcelerator, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
2017-11-27T13:32:58.805Z cli-kit:context Adding command: config
2017-11-27T13:32:58.992Z cli-kit:context Adding command: dump
2017-11-27T13:32:58.992Z cli-kit:context Adding command: exec
2017-11-27T13:32:58.992Z cli-kit:context Adding command: logcat
2017-11-27T13:32:58.992Z cli-kit:context Adding command: restart
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Adding command: start
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Adding command: status
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Adding command: stop
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Adding command: help
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Context Lookup:
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Commands:
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context config => config
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context dump => dump
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context exec => exec
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context logcat => logcat
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context restart => restart
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context start => start
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context status => status
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context stop => stop
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context help => help
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Options:
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context --config => config
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context --config-file => config-file
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context --colors => colors
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context --help => help
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context --version => version
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context -h => help
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context -v => version
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Parsing: [ 'start', '--debug' ]
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Parsing argument: start
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Found command: start
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Parsing argument: --debug
2017-11-27T13:32:59.008Z cli-kit:context Descending into next context's parser
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Context Lookup:
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Options:
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context --debug => debug
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Parsing: [ { type: 'command',
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context command:
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Command {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context _events: Map {},
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context _links: [Array],
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context desc: 'starts the Appc Daemon if it\'s not already running',
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context options: [Array],
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context action: [AsyncFunction: action],
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context parent: [Object],
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context title: 'start',
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context args: [],
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context commands: {},
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context groups: [Object],
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context lookup: [Object],
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context camelCase: true,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context name: 'start',
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context aliases: {} } },
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context { type: 'unknown option', orig: '--debug' } ]
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Parsing argument: --debug
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Found option: debug
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Negated? false
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Finalizing parsing
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Processing default options and environment variables for 2 contexts
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Filling argv and _
2017-11-27T13:32:59.023Z cli-kit:context Mixing in environment variable values
2017-11-27T13:32:59.039Z appcd:config Loading JavaScript config file: C:\Users\Archibald Thornburnt\.appcelerator\install\7.0.0-master.44\package\node_modules\appcd-core\conf\default.js
2017-11-27T13:32:59.117Z appcd:config Parsing AST...
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:config Loading JSON config file: C:\Users\Archibald Thornburnt\.appcelerator\install\7.0.0-master.44\package\node_modules\appcd-core\conf\preprod.json
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "core": {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "enforceNodeVersion": true,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "v8": {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "memory": "auto"
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common }
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common },
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "home": "~/.appcelerator/appcd",
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "network": {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "agentOptions": null,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "caFile": null,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "certFile": null,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "httpProxy": null,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "httpsProxy": null,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "keyFile": null,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "passphrase": null,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "strictSSL": true
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common },
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "plugins": {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "autoReload": true,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "defaultInactivityTimeout": 3600000
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common },
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "server": {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "agentPollInterval": 1000,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "daemonize": true,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "group": null,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "hostname": "127.0.0.1",
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "pidFile": "~/.appcelerator/appcd/appcd.pid",
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "port": 1732,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "user": null
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common },
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "telemetry": {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "enabled": true,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "eventsDir": "~/.appcelerator/appcd/telemetry",
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "sendBatchSize": 10,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "sendInterval": 60000,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "sendTimeout": 60000,
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "url": "https://api.appcelerator.com/p/v1/app-track"
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common },
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "appcd": {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "guid": "14c84daf-b01e-486c-96d3-b8f66da44481"
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common },
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "environment": {
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "name": "preprod",
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common "title": "Pre-production"
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common }
2017-11-27T13:32:59.148Z appcd:common }
2017-11-27T13:32:59.195Z appcd:nodejs Checking C:\Users\Archibald Thornburnt\.appcelerator\appcd\node\v8.9.1\win32\x64\node.exe
2017-11-27T13:32:59.227Z appcd:nodejs Downloading https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.9.1/node-v8.9.1-win-x64.zip => C:\Users\ARCHIB~1\AppData\Local\Temp\node-v8.9.1-win-x64.zip
2017-11-27T13:32:59.227Z appcd:dispatcher Searching for route handler: /appcd/config/network
2017-11-27T13:32:59.351Z appcd:dispatcher Route not found: /appcd/config/network
2017-11-27T13:33:00.053Z appcd:request GET https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.9.1/node-v8.9.1-win-x64.zip 200 (16.11 MB)
2017-11-27T13:33:01.819Z appcd:nodejs Downloaded 16,892,891 bytes
2017-11-27T13:33:01.819Z appcd:nodejs Creating C:\Users\Archibald Thornburnt\.appcelerator\appcd\node\v8.9.1\win32\x64
2017-11-27T13:33:01.819Z appcd:nodejs Extracting zip file: C:\Users\ARCHIB~1\AppData\Local\Temp\node-v8.9.1-win-x64.zip
2017-11-27T13:33:01.850Z appcd:nodejs Found node executable (23,089,816 bytes)
2017-11-27T13:33:02.116Z appcd:nodejs Spawning: C:\Users\Archibald Thornburnt\.appcelerator\appcd\node\v8.9.1\win32\x64\node.exe --max_old_space_size=3000 --inspect "C:\Users\Archibald Thornburnt\.appcelerator\install\7.0.0-master.44\package\node_modules\appcd-core\dist\main.js" # {"stdio":["inherit","inherit","inherit","ipc"]}
[~cbarber] is appcd-nodejs correct in returning the error to the spawnNode call [here](https://github.com/appcelerator/appc-daemon/blob/master/packages/appcd-nodejs/src/nodejs.js#L446) rather than throwing?
https://github.com/appcelerator/appc-daemon/pull/195