# AutomationTool Exited with ExitCode 6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Debugging, Optimization, & Profiling\ **Tags:** unreal-engine, UE4-26, question\ **Created:** [January 22, 2022, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119 "2022-01-22T04:44:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![origin.coda](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@origin.coda](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/origin.coda)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/1 "2022-01-22T04:44:05Z")
**Error Code** Took 2444.5545271s to run UnrealBuildTool.exe, ExitCode=6 UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): UnrealBuildTool failed. See log for more details. (C:\Tools\UnrealEngine\Engine\Programs\AutomationTool\Saved\Logs\UBT-UE426-Win64-Development.txt) UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=6 (6) UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): BUILD FAILED PackagingResults: Error: Unknown Error **Context** I ran Unreal Engine 4 from the source code in Visual Studio. After adding assets, I realized that I ran out of space, so I uninstalled Visual Studio since I didn’t know that I would need this to actually package the whole thing. I reinstalled it then, built the UE4.sln file, and built the AutomationTool as well. However, after packaging all 700+ files, it gave me the error code I specified in the first section of this post. **Full Error Message** UnrealBuildTool.Main: CompilationResultException: Error: OtherCompilationError UnrealBuildTool.Main: at UnrealBuildTool.ActionGraph.ExecuteActions(BuildConfiguration BuildConfiguration, List`1 ActionsToExecute) in C:\Tools\UnrealEngine\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\System\ActionGraph.cs:line 230 UnrealBuildTool.Main: at UnrealBuildTool.BuildMode.Build(TargetMakefile[] Makefiles, List`1 TargetDescriptors, BuildConfiguration BuildConfiguration, ISourceFileWorkingSet WorkingSet, BuildOptions Options, FileReference WriteOutdatedActionsFile) in C:\Tools\UnrealEngine\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\Modes\BuildMode.cs:line 483 UnrealBuildTool.Main: at UnrealBuildTool.BuildMode.Execute(CommandLineArguments Arguments) in C:\Tools\UnrealEngine\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\Modes\BuildMode.cs:line 226 UnrealBuildTool.Main: at UnrealBuildTool.UnrealBuildTool.Main(String[] ArgumentsArray) in C:\Tools\UnrealEngine\Engine\Source\Programs\UnrealBuildTool\UnrealBuildTool.cs:line 550 Timeline.Print: Timeline: Timeline.Print: Timeline.Print: [0.000] Timeline.Print: 0.000 Timeline.Print: 0.040 FileMetadataPrefetch.QueueEngineDirectory() Timeline.Print: 0.047 XmlConfig.ReadConfigFiles() Timeline.Print: 0.155 SingleInstanceMutex.Acquire() Timeline.Print: 0.155 UEBuildPlatform.RegisterPlatforms() Timeline.Print: 0.157 0.001 Initializing InstalledPlatformInfo Timeline.Print: 0.236 0.080 Querying types Timeline.Print: 0.239 0.083 MacPlatformFactory Timeline.Print: 0.305 0.149 TVOSPlatformFactory Timeline.Print: 0.318 0.162 AndroidPlatformFactory Timeline.Print: 0.325 0.169 HoloLensPlatformFactory Timeline.Print: 0.333 0.178 IOSPlatformFactory Timeline.Print: 0.353 0.197 LinuxPlatformFactory Timeline.Print: 0.360 0.204 LuminPlatformFactory Timeline.Print: 0.364 0.208 WindowsPlatformFactory Timeline.Print: 0.377 DeleteJunk() Timeline.Print: 0.383 TargetDescriptor.ParseCommandLine() Timeline.Print: 0.421 Timeline.Print: 0.446 UEBuildTarget.Create() Timeline.Print: 0.452 0.005 RulesCompiler.CreateTargetRulesAssembly() Timeline.Print: 0.452 0.005 0.000 Timeline.Print: 0.585 0.139 0.133 Finding engine modules Timeline.Print: 0.620 0.173 0.167 Finding plugin modules Timeline.Print: 0.626 0.179 0.173 Timeline.Print: 0.775 0.329 0.323 Finding program modules Timeline.Print: 0.794 0.348 0.342 Finding program targets Timeline.Print: 0.808 0.362 RulesAssembly.CreateTargetRules() Timeline.Print: 0.950 0.503 UEBuildTarget constructor Timeline.Print: 0.956 0.510 0.006 Reading source file metadata cache Timeline.Print: 1.068 0.621 UEBuildTarget.PreBuildSetup() Timeline.Print: 1.603 UEBuildTarget.Build() Timeline.Print: 1.603 0.000 Timeline.Print: 1.664 0.060 ExternalExecution.SetupUObjectModules() Timeline.Print: 1.725 0.121 Timeline.Print: 1.970 0.366 ExternalExecution.UpdateDirectoryTimestamps() Timeline.Print: 2.208 0.604 UEBuildBinary.Build() Timeline.Print: 4.403 2.799 Timeline.Print: 4.529 ActionGraph.CheckPathLengths Timeline.Print: 4.535 Timeline.Print: 4.560 Reading action history Timeline.Print: 4.561 Reading dependency cache Timeline.Print: 4.565 Prefetching include dependencies Timeline.Print: 4.595 Cache outdated actions Timeline.Print: 4.764 Timeline.Print: 4.785 ActionGraph.ExecuteActions() Timeline.Print: 2444.270 Timeline.Print: 2444.370 FileMetadataPrefetch.Stop() Timeline.Print: [2444.374] ---
**Author:** ![origin.coda](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@origin.coda](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/origin.coda)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/2 "2022-01-22T08:22:29Z")
Update: I tried to read the logs line by line and analyse the .cs files specified within to no avail. ---
**Author:** ![origin.coda](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@origin.coda](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/origin.coda)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/3 "2022-01-23T02:19:30Z")
Bump! Anyone know how to solve this yet? ---
**Author:** ![malcriado](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/malcriado/32/1081648_2.png) [@malcriado](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/malcriado)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/4 "2022-01-23T22:26:42Z")
Is this a working project or you are migrating from a previous UE4 version? ---
**Author:** ![origin.coda](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@origin.coda](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/origin.coda)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 4:56am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/5 "2022-01-24T04:56:32Z")
This is a working project! I think the main problem here is literally because I reinstalled Visual Studio before I built the final project from within the Unreal Editor… I have no clue how to fix this though. ---
**Author:** ![killerbean](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@killerbean](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/killerbean)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/6 "2022-01-24T18:12:44Z")
I am also stuck with same error ---
**Author:** ![origin.coda](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@origin.coda](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/origin.coda)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 4:34am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/7 "2022-01-25T04:34:53Z")
Did you also reinstall Visual Studio like me? ---
**Author:** ![killerbean](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@killerbean](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/killerbean)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/8 "2022-01-25T19:20:25Z")
No. I tried building again and it passed this time without any error ---
**Author:** ![origin.coda](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@origin.coda](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/origin.coda)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/9 "2022-01-26T07:29:21Z")
Alright, so after disabling lots of the plugins, moving it to a larger space and rebuilding everything, I no longer have this error. Weird. I would suggest anyone that has the same problem to try and move their output directory or at least make a ton of space in their output drive. Thanks everyone! ---
**Author:** ![gwenfish](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@gwenfish](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/gwenfish)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/10 "2022-03-28T16:44:30Z")
我也碰到了相同的问题，后来发现这是因为我修改了项目最顶层文件夹的名称、并且命名不规范导致的（我使用了空格）。解决方法是，我将项目文件命中的空格去掉，就好了。 ---
**Author:** ![Mahdiyar](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/mahdiyar/32/495597_2.png) [@Mahdiyar](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Mahdiyar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/11 "2022-04-09T07:25:02Z")
I got exit code 6 today and tried disabling plugins but it didn’t work actually. finally I realized it happened because I had changed the game icon. so I turned the default image back and it worked properly. ---
**Author:** ![newbprofi](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@newbprofi](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/newbprofi)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/12 "2022-09-18T06:53:47Z")
Look upper, or watch log, described in error, you just have some fatal errors. Even if you did compile code before. For example, i had fatal error: impossible to find some include header file. ---
**Author:** ![Manoloon](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/manoloon/32/1001796_2.png) [@Manoloon](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Manoloon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/13 "2022-10-11T12:09:59Z")
for me was the lack of the parameter -archivedirectory=“E:\Package\5.0\coop\Server” ---
**Author:** ![cnywt](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@cnywt](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/cnywt)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/14 "2022-11-07T12:22:57Z")
谢了 哥们 弄了我一整天 ---
**Author:** ![gwenfish](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@gwenfish](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/gwenfish)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/15 "2022-11-08T15:38:54Z")
😄 ---
**Author:** ![artplayer](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@artplayer](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/artplayer)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/16 "2023-01-02T22:21:46Z")
Hello. I know it’s an old post but I ran into the same problem today and in my case Live Coding was enabled in Editor Preferences → Live Conding and I was trying to compile my code. Disabling LiveCoding everything went back to normal. Hope it helps someone. ---
**Author:** ![Benebot](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Benebot](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Benebot)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2023, 8:16pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/17 "2023-01-22T20:16:45Z")
In my case it was because I had simply disabled the plugin Steam VR. Re-enable it will correct the issue (for now). ---
**Author:** ![DryreL](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/dryrel/32/1042339_2.png) [@DryreL](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/DryreL)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/18 "2023-02-21T11:53:29Z")
Same error. Reinstalling Visual Studio didn’t solve the problem. ---
**Author:** ![Vertex\_Soup](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Vertex\_Soup](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Vertex_Soup)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/19 "2023-03-12T19:33:26Z")
Thank you, this was THE ISSUE for me as well. It got auto enable the moment I changed source code access to Rider. ---
**Author:** ![user\_3d9b5e193c43d19a1fa33727bb38019bd02e1557fb412725648bcf](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@user\_3d9b5e193c43d19a1fa33727bb38019bd02e1557fb412725648bcf](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/user_3d9b5e193c43d19a1fa33727bb38019bd02e1557fb412725648bcf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119/20 "2023-04-23T21:37:00Z")
我将Intermediate文件夹下的build和Source文件夹删除后解决了这个问题，虚幻引擎会为你生成新的文件，如果还是无法解决的话，尝试将一起打包成功的工程文件中的build和Source文件夹进行替换，我在此之前更改了项目名称，导致了这个问题 [Next page](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/automationtool-exited-with-exitcode-6/274119.md?page=2)