[CB-13571] 'semver' property not found block the emulator

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Master, 6.3.0
• Component/s: cordova-android
• Labels: osx run

Environment

$ cordova requirement android

Requirements check results for android:
Java JDK: installed 1.8.0
Android SDK: installed true
Android target: installed android-27,android-26,android-25
Gradle: installed /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-4.1/bin/gradle

Requirements check results for ios:
Apple macOS: installed darwin
Xcode: installed [object Object]
ios-deploy: installed [object Object]
CocoaPods: installed [object Object]

$ cordova info

Node version: v8.9.1

Cordova version: 7.1.0

Config.xml file: 

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget id="io.ionic.starter" version="0.0.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">
    <name>MyApp</name>
    <description>An awesome Ionic/Cordova app.</description>
    <author email="hi@ionicframework" href="http://ionicframework.com/">Ionic Framework Team</author>
    <content src="index.html" />
    <access origin="*" />
    <allow-intent href="http://*/*" />
    <allow-intent href="https://*/*" />
    <allow-intent href="tel:*" />
    <allow-intent href="sms:*" />
    <allow-intent href="mailto:*" />
    <allow-intent href="geo:*" />
    <preference name="ScrollEnabled" value="false" />
    <preference name="android-minSdkVersion" value="16" />
    <preference name="BackupWebStorage" value="none" />
    <preference name="SplashMaintainAspectRatio" value="true" />
    <preference name="FadeSplashScreenDuration" value="300" />
    <preference name="SplashShowOnlyFirstTime" value="false" />
    <preference name="SplashScreen" value="screen" />
    <preference name="SplashScreenDelay" value="3000" />
    <platform name="android">
        <allow-intent href="market:*" />
        <icon density="ldpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-ldpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="mdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-mdpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="hdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-hdpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="xhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xhdpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="xxhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxhdpi-icon.png" />
        <icon density="xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/icon/drawable-xxxhdpi-icon.png" />
        <splash density="land-ldpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-ldpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-mdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-mdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-hdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-hdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-xhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-xxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="land-xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-land-xxxhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-ldpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-ldpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-mdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-mdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-hdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-hdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-xhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-xxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xxhdpi-screen.png" />
        <splash density="port-xxxhdpi" src="resources/android/splash/drawable-port-xxxhdpi-screen.png" />
    </platform>
    <platform name="ios">
        <allow-intent href="itms:*" />
        <allow-intent href="itms-apps:*" />
        <icon height="57" src="resources/ios/icon/icon.png" width="57" />
        <icon height="114" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="114" />
        <icon height="40" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-40.png" width="40" />
        <icon height="80" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="80" />
        <icon height="120" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="120" />
        <icon height="50" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-50.png" width="50" />
        <icon height="100" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="100" />
        <icon height="60" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-60.png" width="60" />
        <icon height="120" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="120" />
        <icon height="180" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="180" />
        <icon height="72" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-72.png" width="72" />
        <icon height="144" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="144" />
        <icon height="76" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-76.png" width="76" />
        <icon height="152" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="152" />
        <icon height="167" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="167" />
        <icon height="29" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-small.png" width="29" />
        <icon height="58" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="58" />
        <icon height="87" src="resources/ios/icon/[e-mail]" width="87" />
        <icon height="1024" src="resources/ios/icon/icon-1024.png" width="1024" />
        <splash height="1136" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-568h@2x~iphone.png" width="640" />
        <splash height="1334" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-667h.png" width="750" />
        <splash height="2208" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-736h.png" width="1242" />
        <splash height="1242" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape-736h.png" width="2208" />
        <splash height="1536" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@2x~ipad.png" width="2048" />
        <splash height="2048" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape@~ipadpro.png" width="2732" />
        <splash height="768" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Landscape~ipad.png" width="1024" />
        <splash height="2048" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@2x~ipad.png" width="1536" />
        <splash height="2732" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait@~ipadpro.png" width="2048" />
        <splash height="1024" src="resources/ios/splash/Default-Portrait~ipad.png" width="768" />
        <splash height="960" src="resources/ios/splash/Default@2x~iphone.png" width="640" />
        <splash height="480" src="resources/ios/splash/Default~iphone.png" width="320" />
        <splash height="2732" src="resources/ios/splash/Default@2x~universal~anyany.png" width="2732" />
    </platform>
    <engine name="ios" spec="4.5.3" />
    <engine name="android" spec="6.3.0" />
    <plugin name="ionic-plugin-keyboard" spec="^2.2.1" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-whitelist" spec="^1.3.3" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-device" spec="^1.1.7" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-splashscreen" spec="^4.1.0" />
    <plugin name="cordova-plugin-ionic-webview" spec="^1.1.16" />
    <allow-navigation href="http://localhost:8100" />
</widget>


Plugins: 

cordova-plugin-device,cordova-plugin-ionic-webview,cordova-plugin-splashscreen,cordova-plugin-whitelist,ionic-plugin-keyboard

Android platform:

*************************************************************************
The "android" command is deprecated.
For manual SDK, AVD, and project management, please use Android Studio.
For command-line tools, use tools/bin/sdkmanager and tools/bin/avdmanager
*************************************************************************
Running /Users/vincentherl/Library/Android/sdk/tools/bin/avdmanager list target

Available Android targets:==============] 100% Fetch remote repository...       
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id: 1 or "android-25"
     Name: Android API 25
     Type: Platform
     API level: 25
     Revision: 3
----------
id: 2 or "android-26"
     Name: Android API 26
     Type: Platform
     API level: 26
     Revision: 2
----------
id: 3 or "android-27"
     Name: Android API 27
     Type: Platform
     API level: 27
     Revision: 1

iOS platform:

Xcode 9.1
Build version 9B55

• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Joey Robert Bowser
• Reporter: Vincent
• Created: 14/Nov/17 13:10
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 07:50
• Resolved: 02/Jan/18 22:36

Description

When run my application with android emulator, the error

Error: Cannot read property 'semver' of null

exit the process.

You can see here the log trace :
$ cordova run android --emulator -d

....
BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 1.014 secs
Command finished with error code 0: /Users/vincentherl/Documents/lire/platforms/android/gradlew cdvBuildDebug,-b,/Users/vincentherl/Documents/lire/platforms/android/build.gradle,-Dorg.gradle.daemon=true,-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m,-Pandroid.useDeprecatedNdk=true
Built the following apk(s): 
	/Users/vincentherl/Documents/lire/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/android-debug.apk
No scripts found for hook "before_deploy".
ANDROID_HOME=/Users/vincentherl/Library/Android/sdk
JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home
Running command: adb devices
Command finished with error code 0: adb devices
Running command: avdmanager list avd
Command finished with error code 0: avdmanager list,avd
Error: Cannot read property 'semver' of null

Mabe a way, this line : https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/blob/83601dca2fa468a76bcb2c687b5baebfcb69588b/bin/templates/cordova/lib/emulator.js#L190