Post install fails for shared-mime-info on mojave

[Say-XKCD]

I ran brew update and brew upgrade, and while the upgrade was running the shared mime-info package showed the following:

==> Pouring shared-mime-info-1.12.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using `brew postinstall shared-mime-info`

I tried the command as suggested and got the same result. The other packages installed successfully, so I believe this is an issue with the shared-mime-info code in particular.

I tried removing the downloaded packages (from ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/) and running brew cleanup then repeated my update and upgrade commands, however still get this error.

The following is the output from brew doctor

$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
  /usr/local/lib/libEioPal.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libTCMsgSrv2.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libTCMsgSvr2.dylib

I have not removed them because it looks like those might be for my sound card, and I get a warning about permissions when I try (and I don't want to break anything). Below is the output from brew gist-logs

$ brew gist-logs shared-mime-info
Error: No logs.

I am able to reproduce this by running brew reinstall shared-mime-info

[gmichokostas]

I've got the same issue.
Macos Mojave

brew postinstall shared-mime-info --debug
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/shared-mime-info.rb
==> Postinstalling shared-mime-info
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/postinstall.rb (Formulary::FromPathLoader): loading /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/shared-mime-info.rb
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using `brew postinstall shared-mime-info`
==> An exception occurred within a child process:
  Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted @ rb_file_s_symlink - (/usr/local/share/mime, /usr/local/Cellar/shared-mime-info/1.12/share/mim
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:359:in `symlink'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:359:in `block in ln_s'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:1586:in `fu_each_src_dest0'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:357:in `ln_s'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/fileutils.rb:380:in `ln_sf'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/shared-mime-info.rb:44:in `post_install'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1007:in `block (2 levels) in run_post_install'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:864:in `with_logging'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1006:in `block in run_post_install'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:476:in `with_env'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:998:in `run_post_install'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/postinstall.rb:16:in `<main>'

[fxcoudert]

poke @tschoonj

[chrisfinazzo]

Also occurs on High Sierra. In my case, it's a dependency for Imagemagick. #38219 says this might be temporary, but I don't really know.

[SheinH]

@chrisfinazzo The bintray issue would only cause a 404, not a symlink error. I doubt that is the issue.

[stek29]

This was the issue for me:

~
❯ ls -ld /usr/local/share/mime
lrwxr-xr-x 1 stek staff 34 Mar  3 00:42 /usr/local/share/mime -> ../Cellar/libheif/1.4.0/share/mime/

~
❯ brew unlink libheif
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/libheif/1.4.0... 12 symlinks removed

~
❯ brew postinstall -d shared-mime-info
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/shared-mime-info.rb
==> Postinstalling shared-mime-info
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/postinstall.rb (Formulary::FromPathLoader): loading /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/shared-mime-info.rb
==> /usr/local/Cellar/shared-mime-info/1.12/bin/update-mime-database /usr/local/

Looks like it's libheif issue.

I guess b3ea3ae should've fixed it, but it didn't work for me.

(FYI this problem has occurred when I've ran brew upgrade)

[stek29]

Oh and ofc:

❯ brew link libheif
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/libheif/1.4.0...
Error: Could not symlink share/mime/XMLnamespaces
Target /usr/local/share/mime/XMLnamespaces
already exists. You may want to remove it:
  rm '/usr/local/share/mime/XMLnamespaces'

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
  brew link --overwrite libheif

To list all files that would be deleted:
  brew link --overwrite --dry-run libheif

[Say-XKCD]

@stek29 Thanks for posting that, it worked for me as well, though strangely didn't give the same error:

$ ls -ld /usr/local/share/mime
lrwxr-xr-x  1 user  admin  34  6 Mar 21:42 /usr/local/share/mime -> ../Cellar/libheif/1.4.0/share/mime

$ brew unlink libheif
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/libheif/1.4.0... 12 symlinks removed

$ brew postinstall shared-mime-info
==> Postinstalling shared-mime-info
==> /usr/local/Cellar/shared-mime-info/1.12/bin/update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime

$ brew link libheif
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/libheif/1.4.0... 12 symlinks created

I have the following versions installed on macOS 10.14.3:
shared-mime-info: stable 1.12 (bottled), HEAD
ibheif: stable 1.4.0 (bottled)

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[thomascapote]

Getting the same issue as @stek29 on High Sierra version 10.13.6 (17G5019).

titan:~$ brew postinstall shared-mime-info
==> Postinstalling shared-mime-info
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using `brew postinstall shared-mime-info`

titan:~$ ls -ld /usr/local/share/mime
lrwxr-xr-x  1 thomascapote  admin  34 Apr 14 13:18 /usr/local/share/mime -> ../Cellar/libheif/1.4.0/share/mime

titan:~$ brew unlink libheif
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/libheif/1.4.0... 12 symlinks removed

titan:~$ brew postinstall shared-mime-info
==> Postinstalling shared-mime-info
==> /usr/local/Cellar/shared-mime-info/1.12/bin/update-mime-database /usr/local/

titan:~$ brew link libheif
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/libheif/1.4.0... 
Error: Could not symlink share/mime/XMLnamespaces
Target /usr/local/share/mime/XMLnamespaces
already exists. You may want to remove it:
  rm '/usr/local/share/mime/XMLnamespaces'

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
  brew link --overwrite libheif

To list all files that would be deleted:
  brew link --overwrite --dry-run libheif

Result of brew doctor:

titan:~$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: You have the following deprecated, official taps tapped:
  Homebrew/homebrew-fuse
Untap them with `brew untap`.

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
  /usr/local/lib/libnnz11.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libociei.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libocijdbc11.dylib

Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar.
Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause brews that depend on
those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run `brew link` on these:
  libheif

titan:~$ 

[sl1pkn07]

in homebrew-kde/kde tap, i make a patch for any package generate the mimeinfo when run "make install" for avoid the creation the file XMLnamespaces, and point it to post_install script to run it the command for generate it

for example: https://github.com/KDE-mac/homebrew-kde/blob/30a57ba1e2a197c417091a7c428cc3e27b78e351/Formula/kf5-kcoreaddons.rb

edit: i've update it for more sane method instead off patch, but the fix is the same

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[kansaichris]

I just ran into this issue on macOS Mojave 10.4.5:

==> Upgrading shared-mime-info 
==> Installing dependencies for shared-mime-info: glib
==> Installing shared-mime-info dependency: glib
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/glib-2.60.4_1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://akamai.bintray.com/c4/c4090feb90bb9973ca852b6983a3f6db0b7c4242c3e2720168e39b2a5f9
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring glib-2.60.4_1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/glib/2.60.4_1: 429 files, 15.2MB
==> Installing shared-mime-info
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/shared-mime-info-1.12_1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
==> Downloading from https://akamai.bintray.com/aa/aa8d4c56a94505b37c58935aee01777f87623a4ca9ad9e01276103cce87
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring shared-mime-info-1.12_1.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using `brew postinstall shared-mime-info`
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/shared-mime-info/1.12_1: 85 files, 4.4MB
Removing: /usr/local/Cellar/shared-mime-info/1.12... (85 files, 4.4MB)

Here's the output from brew doctor:

$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
  /usr/local/lib/libulockmgr.1.dylib

Warning: Unbrewed .la files were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .la files:
  /usr/local/lib/libulockmgr.la

Manually running the post-install step doesn't appear to work:

$ brew postinstall shared-mime-info
==> Postinstalling shared-mime-info
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using `brew postinstall shared-mime-info`

Here's the same command with more verbose output:

$ brew -v postinstall shared-mime-info
==> Postinstalling shared-mime-info
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-- /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/postinstall.rb /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/shared-mime-info.rb -v
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using `brew postinstall shared-mime-info`