unable to open bucket about pulumi HOT 1 OPEN

pulumi new
error: unable to open bucket file:///Users/manderse/code/jbanghub/.github/infrastructure/.state?no_tmp_dir=true: stat /Users/manderse/code/jbanghub/.github/infrastructure/.state: no such file or directory

This is expected. It looks like you did a pulumi login file//./.state, which logged you into a backend relative to the current working directory. Presumably this .statedirectory exists somewhere else, but when you switched to your project and tried to use it, the.state` directory didn't exist relative to that current working directory.

What you want to do is either pulumi login file://<absolute-path, i.e. pulumi login file:////Users/manderse/.state or something similar, or just use pulumi login --local, which will make the login directory in ~/.pulumi.

We should probably warn users when they use a relative path here, since that's not really expected (or even expand that relative path for them on login). I'm going to label this as an enhancement request, for this bit here.

manderse@goldentiny infrastructure % pulumi new
error: /Users/manderse/code/jbanghub/.github/infrastructure is not empty; rerun in an empty directory, pass the path to an empty directory to --dir, or use --force

This is also expected, since you now no longer have an empty directory. pulumi new expects an empty directory to make sure it doesn't overwrite any files, unless you use the --force flag, which seems to have worked in your case.

from pulumi.