[Bug?]: Internal Error: @myorg/ui-foo-widget@workspace:.: does not exist in yarn.lock file

[jbarker4682]

Self-service

• I'd be willing to implement a fix

Describe the bug

We are upgrading from Yarn 1 to Yarn 4.9.1 and encountering the above error when trying to publish a workspace from our monorepo to our internal Artifactory repository (see simplified example ui-monorepo.zip)

I have verified the following:

• workspaces in the root project.json file is correct ("apps/*") and "private": true
• apps/foo-widget/package.json has correct name ("@myorg/ui-foo-widget") and "private": false
• .yarnrc.yml and .npmrc have correct authentication settings for reading and publishing to Artifactory
• I have cleared yarn cache and re-run yarn install and confirmed that my workspace project is added to the yarn.lock file (see below).

Note: The error message says that Yarn is looking for @myorg/ui-foo-widget@workspace:. not @myorg/ui-foo-widget@workspace:apps/foo-widget, which I think is the problem but don't know how to fix as internet says running yarn install with correct workspace configuration and package.json names should resolve this.

example root yarn.lock file

`__metadata:
version: 8
cacheKey: 10

"@myorg/ui-foo-widget@workspace:apps/foo-widget":
version: 0.0.0-use.local
resolution: "@myorg/ui-foo-widget@workspace:apps/foo-widget"
languageName: unknown
linkType: soft`

I get the same error when running any of the following commands:

from monorepo root (e.g. ui-monorepo)

• yarn --cwd apps/foo-widgcet/ npm publish
• yarn workspace @myorg/ui-foo-widget npm publish

from project root (e.g. ui-monorepo/apps/foo-widget)

• yarn npm publish

all result in:

Internal Error: @myorg/ui-foo-widget@workspace:.: This package doesn't seem to be present in your lockfile; run "yarn install" to update the lockfile at GR.getCandidates (/Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:205:8149) at rm.getCandidates (/Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:141:1311) at /Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:210:8420 at GE (/Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:140:54028) at gt (/Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:210:8400) at async Promise.allSettled (index 0) at async Uu (/Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:140:53356) at async /Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:210:9166 at async Wi.startProgressPromise (/Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:140:139721) at async t.resolveEverything (/Users/xx.xx/code/ui-monorepo/.yarn/releases/yarn-4.9.1.cjs:210:7138)

I've spent about a week so far trying to troubleshoot this and other publish related issues and would greatly appreciate any help / 2nd set of eyes (thank you!)

To reproduce

Download the example ui-monorepo.zip or create a basic yarn package based monorepo with similar configuration settings and attempt to run yarn npm info or yarn npm publish from the root or project directory.

Environment

System:
  OS: macOS 15.4.1
  CPU: (16) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz
Binaries:
  Node: 22.13.1 - /private/var/folders/l8/5_t3t09d0c9c32yg585f4yzw0000gq/T/xfs-1214c4ff/node
  Yarn: 4.9.1 - /private/var/folders/l8/5_t3t09d0c9c32yg585f4yzw0000gq/T/xfs-1214c4ff/yarn
  npm: 10.9.2 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v22.13.1/bin/npm

Additional context

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