[Bug]: aspect lint hangs when using --remote-cache

[scasagrande]

What happened?

I probably missed something or have something misconfigured.

I am currently investigating adopting aspect-cli for my team and exploring what the lint workflow looks like. I have it all setup and working, but if I have --remote_cache enabled in my user.bazelrc file then my aspect lint hangs for 30s with the following:

Waiting for lint reports to finish downloading from the remote cache...
WARNING: Lint file not downloaded 30s after build completed (skipping): /mnt/ephemeral/buildbarn/bb_clientd/cas/steven/blobs/sha256/file/e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855-0

Its not hard to find where this is coming from but I am confused as to why I am hitting this. I assume that this should only be running in a specific environment.

Version

Development (host) and target OS/architectures:

macOS 26 aarch64

Output of bazel --version:

Bazelisk version: 1.29.0
Build label: 8.7.0
Build target: @@//src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel:BazelServer
Build time: Wed May 06 19:01:13 2026 (1778094073)
Build timestamp: 1778094073
Build timestamp as int: 1778094073

Version of the Aspect rules, or other relevant rules from your
WORKSPACE or MODULE.bazel file:

aspect-cli 2026.25.11

bazel_dep(name = "aspect_rules_lint", version = "2.5.2")

.aspect/config.axl

def config(ctx: ConfigContext):
    ctx.tasks["lint"].args.aspects = [
        "//bazel/tools/lint:linters.bzl%clippy",
    ]
    ctx.tasks["format"].args.formatter_target = "//:format"
    ctx.tasks["gazelle"].args.gazelle_target = "//:gazelle"

How to reproduce

Any other information?

No response

[rafikk]

I also ran into this and I'm not sure if the solution is documented. But the problem is this: when using remote execution, output files from the BES are prefixed with bytestream:// rather than file://. You need to set --nobuild_event_binary_file_path_conversion in your bazelrc.

It looks like bytestream://-prefixed lines are handled, but they expect a bb_clientd instance to mounted.

[scasagrande]

Ah yes that flag does resolve my problem. But that does seem awkward to me.