Cannot install Erlang anymore

[eproxus]

Describe the bug
It is not possible to install any Erlang version for me anymore.

To Reproduce

• rtx install erlang@latest
• rtx install erlang@26
• rtx install erlang@25
• rtx install erlang@24

Expected behavior
Erlang is installed.

rtx doctor output

rtx version:
  2023.12.25 macos-arm64 (e1f4173 2023-12-13)

build:
  Target: aarch64-apple-darwin
  Features: DEFAULT, NATIVE_TLS, OPENSSL
  Built: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 06:56:29 +0000
  Rust Version: rustc 1.74.1 (a28077b28 2023-12-04)
  Profile: release

shell:
  /opt/homebrew/bin/fish
  fish, version 3.6.4

rtx data directory:
  /Users/user/.local/share/rtx

rtx environment variables:
  RTX_SHELL=fish

settings:
  {"always_keep_download": "false", "always_keep_install": "false", "asdf_compat": "false", "disable_default_shorthands": "false", "disable_tools": "[]", "experimental": "true", "jobs": "4", "legacy_version_file": "true", "legacy_version_file_disable_tools": "[]", "plugin_autoupdate_last_check_duration": "7d", "raw": "false", "trusted_config_paths": "[]", "verbose": "false", "yes": "false"}

config files:
  /Users/user/.config/rtx/config.toml
  /Users/user/.tool-versions
  /Users/user/.rtx.toml

plugins:
  bun      (core)
  deno     (core)
  elixir   https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir.git#a4c42e1
  erlang   https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang.git#6744df7
  go       (core)
  java     (core)
  node     (core)
  python   (core)
  ruby     (core)

toolset:
  go@latest, bun@latest, erlang@latest, elixir@latest, node@latest, python@latest [email protected]

No problems found

Additional context

• Output:

  $ rtx install -v erlang
  
  installing
    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
    0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:—     0
  100  102M  100  102M    0     0  26.8M      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:— 29.2M
  APPLICATIONS DISABLED (See: /Users/alind/.local/share/rtx/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_26.2/otp_build_26.2.log)
   * odbc           : ODBC library - link check failed
  DOCUMENTATION INFORMATION (See: /Users/alind/.local/share/rtx/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_26.2/otp_build_26.2.log)
   * documentation  :
   *                  fop is missing.
   *                  Using fakefop to generate placeholder PDF files.
  rtx ~/.local/share/rtx/plugins/erlang/bin/install exited with non-zero status: exit code 1
  rtx Run with RTX_DEBUG=1 for more information

  The output is the same for all Erlang versions.

• Possibly related issues:

  • Could not install [email protected] #907

• I have the problem both before and after upgrading to the RTX version with Erang as a core plugin.

• asdf can install these versions without problems.

[eproxus]

Some further digging:

1. Removing ~/Library/Caches/rtx/erlang did not fix the issue
2. Removing ~/Library/Caches/rtx and moving ~/.local/share/rtx somewhere else fixes it (basically a manual rtx implode and reinstall). I have a copy of that folder in case more debugging is needed.

[marc0s]

I'm also unable to install [email protected]. My backtrace:

[DEBUG] (14) rtx::cmd: [src/cmd.rs:188] $ ~/.local/share/rtx/plugins/erlang/bin/install 
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 98.8M  100 98.8M    0     0  22.0M      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:-- 23.3M
APPLICATIONS INFORMATION (See: /home/username/.local/share/rtx/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_25.1.2/otp_build_25.1.2.log)
 * wx             : wxWidgets was not compiled with --enable-webview or wxWebView developer package is not installed, wxWebView will NOT be available
[TRACE] (14) rtx::file: [src/file.rs:22] rm -rf ~/.local/share/rtx/installs/erlang/25.1.2
[TRACE] (14) rtx::file: [src/file.rs:22] rm -rf ~/.local/share/rtx/downloads/erlang/25.1.2
Error: 
   0: ~/.local/share/rtx/plugins/erlang/bin/install exited with non-zero status: exit code 1

Location:
   /rustc/a28077b28a02b92985b3a3faecf92813155f1ea1/library/core/src/convert/mod.rs:716

Version:
   2023.12.25 linux-x64 (e1f4173 2023-12-13)

  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BACKTRACE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
   1: color_eyre::config::EyreHook::into_eyre_hook::{{closure}}::hbb75190503dfde2e
      at <unknown source file>:<unknown line>
   2: eyre::error::<impl eyre::Report>::from_std::hefabd16996d0f18f
      at <unknown source file>:<unknown line>
   3: rtx::plugins::script_manager::ScriptManager::run_by_line::hadf9620a772ccf27
      at <unknown source file>:<unknown line>
   4: <rtx::plugins::external_plugin::ExternalPlugin as rtx::plugins::Plugin>::install_version_impl::h0b444f1239f5f3c8
      at <unknown source file>:<unknown line>
   5: rtx::plugins::Plugin::install_version::h546df37f60d108d7
      at <unknown source file>:<unknown line>
   6: std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace::h3813e8bbdc8369ee
      at <unknown source file>:<unknown line>
   7: core::ops::function::FnOnce::call_once{{vtable.shim}}::he89300381640a8c5
      at <unknown source file>:<unknown line>
   8: <alloc::boxed::Box<F,A> as core::ops::function::FnOnce<Args>>::call_once::h51435299acd7166e
      at /rustc/a28077b28a02b92985b3a3faecf92813155f1ea1/library/alloc/src/boxed.rs:2007
   9: <alloc::boxed::Box<F,A> as core::ops::function::FnOnce<Args>>::call_once::h3f833c0a4926bdd4
      at /rustc/a28077b28a02b92985b3a3faecf92813155f1ea1/library/alloc/src/boxed.rs:2007
  10: std::sys::unix::thread::Thread::new::thread_start::h2c486d0230ab0d99
      at /rustc/a28077b28a02b92985b3a3faecf92813155f1ea1/library/std/src/sys/unix/thread.rs:108
  11: start_thread<unknown>
      at ./nptl/pthread_create.c:444
  12: __GI___clone3<unknown>
      at ./misc/../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:78

Suggestion: Run with RTX_DEBUG=1 for more information.

Run with COLORBT_SHOW_HIDDEN=1 environment variable to disable frame filtering.

And my rtx doctor:

Consider adding one of the following versions in your config file at /home/username/tmp/rtx-erlang/.tool-versions
python 3.9.16
rtx version:
  2023.12.25 linux-x64 (e1f4173 2023-12-13)

build:
  Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  Features: DEFAULT, NATIVE_TLS, OPENSSL
  Built: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 06:55:25 +0000
  Rust Version: rustc 1.74.1 (a28077b28 2023-12-04)
  Profile: release

shell:
  /usr/bin/zsh
  zsh 5.9 (x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu)

rtx data directory:
  /home/username/.local/share/rtx

rtx environment variables:
  RTX_SHELL=zsh

settings:
  {"always_keep_download": "false", "always_keep_install": "false", "asdf_compat": "false", "disable_default_shorthands": "false", "disable_tools": "[]", "experimental": "false", "jobs": "4", "legacy_version_file": "true", "legacy_version_file_disable_tools": "[]", "plugin_autoupdate_last_check_duration": "7d", "raw": "false", "trusted_config_paths": "[]", "verbose": "false", "yes": "false"}

config files:
  /home/username/tmp/rtx-erlang/.tool-versions

plugins:
  bun      (core)
  deno     (core)
  erlang   https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang.git#6744df7
  go       (core)
  java     (core)
  node     (core)
  python   (core)
  ruby     (core)

toolset:
  [email protected]

No problems found

One thing I don't know is why my rtx is using the asdf-vm erlang plugin and not the core one, as I'd expect to have per my rtx version.

rtx implode didn't fix the issue. Neither manually removing ~/.cache/rtx and moving ~/.local/share/rtx away.

[marc0s]

Using RTX_EXPERIMENTAL=1 to use the core erlang plugin I can build it after rtx implode.

[jdx]

rtx implode isn't necessary, just uninstall the plugin with rtx plugins uninstall erlang—then it will fall back to the core plugin if experimental is enabled.

I can reproduce this, but I'm wondering if the "fix" might just be to make the core plugin not experimental. This is incredibly bizarre since I just wrote that core plugin yesterday not knowing there were problems with this.

[eproxus]

It was sometime since I installed the last new Erlang version (26.1.2, in October) so I didn't notice it until now. Thanks for the quick fix! ❤️