@jayconrod @matloob @bcmills can you please take a look? I'm not sure what the advice is for troubleshooting permissions issues

I think a good next step here would be to determine if Go is installed properly and it's able to build programs. For example, does the go run . command in step 4 of https://golang.org/doc/tutorial/getting-started get you expected output?

The installed path changed recently in #42070 (CC @toothrot), but I don't think that should be causing this. It seems like the GOPATH directory may be misconfigured, possibly from a left-over previous installation.

The go env output includes:

set GOPATH=C:\Go\bin

That probably needs to be changed.

The writing stat cache error comes from here:

That implies that the path from that error message is in the module cache, which defaults to %GOPATH%\pkg\mod.

The user-reported go env output shows:

set GOMODCACHE=C:\Go\bin\pkg\mod
…
set GOPATH=C:\Go\bin

So whatever generated that error message is using a different value for GOPATH and/or GOMODCACHE, probably C:\Program Files\Go or similar instead of C:\Go\bin as reported.

So, what we need to know now is: what was the actual go command that generated that error message?

(Independently, setting GOPATH to C:\Go\bin seems very suspicious: GOPATH contains its own bin subdirectory at %GOPATH%\bin, so probably you want GOPATH set to C:\Go instead.)

So all you respected peeps , who are actually helping with the doubt, first of all thank you but what I want is : Can any one of you can tell me the clean precise steps I should finally do ?

@Jassi10000 Did you install go using the official Windows go installer? I don't know why the extension picked c:\go\bin\go.exe for go1.16.

If you have a previous version of go.exe installed there, please uninstall/delete C:\Go directory and reinstall using the official windows installed. go1.16 should be installed in C:\Program Files\Go\bin.

@Jassi10000 Did you install go using the official Windows go installer? I don't know why the extension picked c:\go\bin\go.exe for go1.16.

If you have a previous version of go.exe installed there, please uninstall/delete C:\Go directory and reinstall using the official windows installed. go1.16 should be installed in C:\Program Files\Go\bin.

yes sir , I did that exactly same , that's why second time I changes the file directory , I think that was my only mistake ,
Ok I think I should try again with the steps you mentioned

You can find instructions to uninstall a previous version at https://golang.org/doc/manage-install#uninstalling, and instructions to install a new version at https://golang.org/doc/install.

See https://golang.org/help/ for more places to get help. I'll close this issue since it doesn't seem to be a bug in the Go project.

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What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.16 windows/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

What did you do?

I tried to install all the necessary modules for Go to setup in VS-Code , as I was preparing to make a project with GoLang

What did you expect to see?

I expected to see all the Go tools properly setup , and after that smooth functioning in VS-Code

What did you see instead?

gopls: failed to install gopls(golang.org/x/tools/gopls): Error: Command failed: c:\go\bin\go.exe get -v golang.org/x/tools/gopls
go: writing stat cache: mkdir C:\Program Files\Go: Access is denied.
go: writing stat cache: mkdir C:\Program Files\Go: Access is denied.
go: downloading golang.org/x/tools/gopls v0.6.6
go: writing go.mod cache: mkdir C:\Program Files\Go: Access is denied.
go: downloading golang.org/x/tools v0.1.0
go get golang.org/x/tools/gopls: mkdir C:\Program Files\Go: Access is denied.
no output

is the issue solved ? because i have found a way to solve it.

@AliPeeri no it's not

I had this error after installing Go just now. I ran VS Code in Administrator mode and it all went away... So for me I'm pretty sure it was a Windows permissions problem.

Had the same issue and resolved it with what @Davo36 did.

Had the same issue and resolved it with what @Davo36 did.

@AdamMK : Actually I had this again recently and I found the problem to be that I had my GOPATH variable set incorrectly. I describe that here: #26814

Go down to the bottom to see what I did. I had 2 values for the GOPATH variable when viewing in the environment variables dialog box on Windows.

But it did look very much like a Windows permissions problem since Administrator mode makes it go away.

I don't think this issue is resolved. I install go with go1.17.3.windows-amd64.msi, and I still see the default repo path is "C:\Program Files\Go\src", then we will sure get the error because of the Windows protection. The repo should be in C:\Users\XXXX\ by default but not in C:\Program Files, just as maven, nodejs and many others did. Ask for admin privilege doesn't make sense at all.

Tools environment: GOPATH=D:\code_go, GOBIN=D:\go\bin
Installing 10 tools at the configured GOBIN: D:\go\bin in module mode.
gopkgs
go-outline
gotests
gomodifytags
impl
goplay
dlv
dlv-dap
staticcheck
gopls

Installing github.com/uudashr/gopkgs/v2/cmd/gopkgs@latest (D:\go\bin\gopkgs.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing github.com/ramya-rao-a/go-outline@latest (D:\go\bin\go-outline.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing github.com/cweill/gotests/gotests@latest (D:\go\bin\gotests.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing github.com/fatih/gomodifytags@latest (D:\go\bin\gomodifytags.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing github.com/josharian/impl@latest (D:\go\bin\impl.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing github.com/haya14busa/goplay/cmd/goplay@latest (D:\go\bin\goplay.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv@latest (D:\go\bin\dlv.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv@master (D:\go\bin\dlv-dap.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing honnef.co/go/tools/cmd/staticcheck@latest (D:\go\bin\staticcheck.exe) SUCCEEDED
Installing golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest (D:\go\bin\gopls.exe) SUCCEEDED

All tools successfully installed. You are ready to Go. :)

make sure your GOPATH GOROOT GOBIN GOPROXY are all correct !

go env -w GOPROXY=https://goproxy.io,direct
go env -w GOROOT=D:\go
go env -w GO111MODULE=on
go env -w GOBIN=D:\go\bin\go.exe
go env -w GOPATH=D:\code_go

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