Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest - Failed downloading manifest #952

jensenr30 · 2018-12-25T06:23:17Z

I followed the instructions to install luarocks on Windows 7, but I cannot install any rocks. It seems that luarocks is incapable of downloading the manifest.
I have successfully manually visited the manifest page. My web browser is capable of downloading the manifest and displaying it to me.

Does anyone know how this failure occurs?

command line log:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>luarocks install graph-toolkit

Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for https://luarocks.org - Failed downloading https://luarocks.org/manifest - C:\Users\jen\AppData\Local/LuaRocks/Cache/https___luarocks.org/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/ - Failed downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest - C:\Users\jen\AppData\Local/LuaRocks/Cache/https___raw.githubusercontent.com_rocks-moonscript-org_moonrocks-mirror_master_/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for http://luafr.org/moonrocks/ - Failed downloading http://luafr.org/moonrocks/manifest - C:\Users\jen\AppData\Local/LuaRocks/Cache/http___luafr.org_moonrocks_/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for http://luarocks.logiceditor.com/rocks - Failed downloading http://luarocks.logiceditor.com/rocks/manifest - C:\Users\jen\AppData\Local/LuaRocks/Cache/http___luarocks.logiceditor.com_rocks/manifest

Error: No results matching query were found.

C:\Windows\system32>

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maxdevjs · 2018-12-25T07:21:27Z

Same on Linux. First time I install luarocks, then I can not say if it worked before.

LuaRocks version: 3.0.4-1
Lua version: 5.3.4

$ ./configure --lua-version=5.3 --prefix=$HOME/.luarocks
$ make bootstrap
$ which luarocks
$HOME/.luarocks/bin/luarocks

$ luarocks install dkjosn 
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for https://luarocks.org - Failed downloading https://luarocks.org/manifest - $HOME/.cache/luarocks/https___luarocks.org/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/ - Failed downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest - $HOME/.cache/luarocks/https___raw.githubusercontent.com_rocks-moonscript-org_moonrocks-mirror_master_/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for http://luafr.org/moonrocks/ - Failed downloading http://luafr.org/moonrocks/manifest - $HOME/.cache/luarocks/http___luafr.org_moonrocks_/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for http://luarocks.logiceditor.com/rocks - Failed downloading http://luarocks.logiceditor.com/rocks/manifest - $HOME/.cache/luarocks/http___luarocks.logiceditor.com_rocks/manifest

Error: No results matching query were found.

I can load manifest URLS in browser.

It also fails a search, example:

$ luarocks search dkjosn 

Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for https://luarocks.org - Failed downloading https://luarocks.org/manifest - ...

dkjosn - Search results for Lua 5.3:
====================================

maxdevjs · 2018-12-26T13:28:48Z

Installing with ./configure --lua-version=5.3 --prefix=$HOME/.luarocks

Tried and failed:

luarocks install --server=http://luarocks.org lgi

Happens also cloning the repo. Furthermore:

$ luarocks install --verbose

...
os.execute:     cd '$HOME/' && test '-e' '$HOME/./../../../../../../../../../.luarocks-no-project'
Results: 3
  1 (nil): nil
  2 (string): exit
  3 (number): 1

io.popen:       stat -c '%U' '$HOME/.cache/luarocks' 2> /dev/null

Error: Argument missing. See '$HOME/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.3/luarocks/dev-1/bin/luarocks help install'.
...

$ $HOME/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.3/luarocks/dev-1/bin/luarocks help install
lua: error loading module 'luarocks.core.cfg' from file '$HOME/.luarocks':
        cannot read $HOME/.luarocks: Is a directory
stack traceback:
        [C]: in ?
        [C]: in function 'require'
        ...rocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.3/luarocks/dev-1/bin/luarocks:4: in main chunk
        [C]: in ?

vincentkerdraon · 2019-01-22T19:22:54Z

Hello,
same here in Docker

FROM alpine

COPY po_vault.lua validate-po.bash ./

RUN apk add --no-cache --purge -uU lua lua-dev git  \
    && apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps build-base unzip \
    && cd /tmp \
    && git clone https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks.git \
    && cd luarocks \
    && sh ./configure \
    && make build install \
    # && luarocks install luafilesystem \
    && cd \
    && apk del --purge .build-deps \
    && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/* /tmp/*

luarocks init
Initializing project translations ...
Warning: Please specify supported Lua versions with --lua-versions=<ver>. See '/usr/local/bin/luarocks help write_rockspec'.

Wrote template at /translations/translations-dev-1.rockspec -- you should now edit and finish it.

Checking your Lua installation ...
Adding entries to .gitignore ...

Error: LuaRocks dev bug (please report at https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues).
Arch.: unknown
/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/cmd/init.lua:46: attempt to index local 'fd' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
	/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/cmd/init.lua:46: in function 'write_gitignore'
	/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/cmd/init.lua:86: in function </usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/cmd/init.lua:54>
	(tail call): ?
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'
	/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/cmd.lua:488: in function 'run_command'
	/usr/local/bin/luarocks:38: in main chunk
	[C]: ?

luarocks install luasocket
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for https://luarocks.org - Failed downloading https://luarocks.org/manifest - /root/.cache/luarocks/https___luarocks.org/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/ - Failed downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest - /root/.cache/luarocks/https___raw.githubusercontent.com_rocks-moonscript-org_moonrocks-mirror_master_/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for http://luafr.org/moonrocks/ - Failed downloading http://luafr.org/moonrocks/manifest - /root/.cache/luarocks/http___luafr.org_moonrocks_/manifest
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed fetching manifest for http://luarocks.logiceditor.com/rocks - Failed downloading http://luarocks.logiceditor.com/rocks/manifest - /root/.cache/luarocks/http___luarocks.logiceditor.com_rocks/manifest

Error: No results matching query were found.

no change if I delete /root/.cache/luarocks

thank you.

See #952 (comment)

Containers often run things from the root directory. This makes the <name> argument mandatory when running `luarocks init` from `/`. See #952 (comment)

Avoid reporting itself via the true path of the script; use the wrapper instead. That is, instead of ``` Error: Argument missing. See '$HOME/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.3/luarocks/dev-1/bin/luarocks help install'. ``` report ``` Error: Argument missing. See '$HOME/.luarocks/bin/luarocks help install'. ``` See #952 (comment)

phil294 · 2019-10-26T15:03:11Z

@vincentkerdraon You need to add the curl package manually beforehand.

sufezyh · 2020-02-25T03:13:18Z

Still no luck.
I'm on windows 7 with curl installed
I've got no idea why I can't do a simple download
And I'm using the latest version of luarocks

jiajunhua · 2020-08-28T02:39:46Z

macOS 10.15.6 is also the same problem

matu3ba · 2021-02-07T20:14:50Z

Arch Linux: problem could be fixed. EDIT: Problems were wrong permissions due to default settings of a sandboxing solution (firejail).

rivalak · 2021-03-08T07:07:25Z

@vincentkerdraon You need to add the curl package manually beforehand.

What is this really mean? I am newer to Lua.

Wistral · 2021-03-31T04:12:23Z

I successfully fix this by setting environment var, maybe help for others.

export https_proxy=192.168.31.45:12333
export http_proxy=192.168.31.45:12333

192.168.31.45:12333 is your proxy host:port

phil294 · 2021-03-31T17:42:56Z

@vincentkerdraon You need to add the curl package manually beforehand.

What is this really mean? I am newer to Lua.

It means that you might need to install curl on your operating system (for example, Ubuntu Linux: command sudo apt-get install curl). It has nothing to do with lua itself.
But this may be specific to Alpine Docker images, I'm not sure if this is a general requirement

Zalgo2462 · 2022-04-23T00:49:14Z

I hit this issue when running luarocks on alpine linux. Alpine linux includes a wget implementation via BusyBox, but the BusyBox implementation does not support the flags luarocks passes to it. Even though I had curl installed, luarocks kept trying to use the BusyBox wget implementation. In order to resolve this issue, I had to install the full featured version of wget.

Edit: see the implementation at

luarocks/src/luarocks/fs/tools.lua

Line 157 in 85f1549

if downloader == "wget" then

and

luarocks/src/luarocks/fs/tools.lua

Line 19 in 85f1549

{ var = "WGET", name = "wget" },

.

alerque · 2022-04-23T08:10:39Z

Given that the wget usage is a fallback anyway, it seems like adjusting luarocks uasge so that it uses the minimum flags possible and is compatible with the busybox implementation might be a good move.

hishamhm · 2022-04-24T16:35:04Z

Given that the wget usage is a fallback anyway, it seems like adjusting luarocks uasge so that it uses the minimum flags possible and is compatible with the busybox implementation might be a good move.

We'd end up restricted to whatever limitations a third-party reimplementation of the tool we're trying to use decided to impose; we're using those flags for practical reasons. I've put the effort to make LuaRocks flexible enough to use GNU Wget, Curl and LuaSocket and three backends it's already enough...

On another note, most of the failures reported in this PR look totally unrelated. What I think we should actually do is to start always building LuaRocks as a binary bundling LuaSocket and stop using third-party CLI tools altogether, but that would require a non-trivial effort in reworking our build process (the current process for building LuaRocks binaries is not designed to bootstrap on a system from scratch).

Zalgo2462 · 2022-04-25T18:02:38Z

Given that the wget usage is a fallback anyway

Lua isn't the main language I work in, but it looks like wget is preferred by luarocks over curl.

luarocks/src/luarocks/fs/tools.lua

Lines 16 to 36 in 85f1549

    
           local tool_options = { 
        
              downloader = { 
        
                 desc = "downloader", 
        
                 { var = "WGET", name = "wget" }, 
        
                 { var = "CURL", name = "curl" }, 
        
              }, 
        
              md5checker = { 
        
                 desc = "MD5 checker", 
        
                 { var = "MD5SUM", name = "md5sum" }, 
        
                 { var = "OPENSSL", name = "openssl", cmdarg = "md5" }, 
        
                 { var = "MD5", name = "md5" }, 
        
              }, 
        
           } 
        
           function tools.which_tool(tooltype) 
        
              local tool = tool_cache[tooltype] 
        
              local names = {} 
        
              if not tool then 
        
                 for _, opt in ipairs(tool_options[tooltype]) do 
        
                    table.insert(names, opt.name) 
        
                    if fs.is_tool_available(vars[opt.var], opt.name) then

It appears that the order of preference was changed between versions v3.2.1 and v3.3.0.

Most of the docs out in the world recommend installing curl to fix this issue. Switching the order back may go a long way in preventing more bug reports.

Rather than limiting the flags used, perhaps the code at

luarocks/src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua

Lines 124 to 126 in 4f66ca5

    
           else 
        
              ok = fs.execute_quiet(tool_cmd, arg) 
        
              tool_available_cache[tool_name] = (ok == true)

could check the output from running wget --version to ensure that the version of wget called is GNU wget.

Alternatively, the LuaSocket fix sounds amazing as a user of luarocks. I agree the bug reports seem to stem from different issues related to calling CLI tools that may or may not exist.

alerque · 2022-04-25T18:35:59Z

The build process for luasocket is likewise a bit convoluted (and not even currently tested on all supported platforms, yikes!) but I'm happy to help facilitate anything that needs to happen to that project's release process if it will make LuaRocks' life easier.

xuexb · 2022-06-26T04:48:56Z

I have the same problem, curl, wget are installed, and both curl https://luarocks.org/manifest-5.1 and curl www.google.com are accessible. The error messages are:

...
os.execute: cd '/var/cache/luarocks/https___luafr.org_luarocks' && wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.0 linux-x86_64 via wget" - -quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://luafr.org/luarocks/manifest-5.1'
wget: unrecognized option: timestamping
BusyBox v1.35.0 (2022-05-09 17:27:12 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: wget [-cqS] [--spider] [-O FILE] [-o LOGFILE] [--header STR]
[--post-data STR | --post-file FILE] [-Y on/off]
[-P DIR] [-U AGENT] [-T SEC] URL...

Retrieve files via HTTP or FTP

--spider Only check URL existence: $? is 0 if exists
--header STR Add STR (of form 'header: value') to headers
--post-data STR Send STR using POST method
--post-file FILE Send FILE using POST method
-c Continue retrieval of aborted transfer
-q Quiet
-P DIR Save to DIR (default .)
-S Show server response
-T SEC Network read timeout is SEC seconds
-O FILE Save to FILE ('-' for stdout)
-o LOGFILE Log messages to FILE
-U STR Use STR for User-Agent header
-Y on/off Use proxy
Results: 1
...

It seems that the wget parameter is wrong?

Environmental Information:

alpine 3.16.0
Lua 5.1
LuaRocks 3.9.0

I found that LuaRocks 3.8.0 is ok.

/tmp/luarocks-3.8.0 # luarocks install luacheck
Installing https://luarocks.org/luacheck-0.26.1-1.src.rock
Missing dependencies for luacheck 0.26.1-1:
   argparse >= 0.6.0 (not installed)
   luafilesystem >= 1.6.3 (not installed)

luacheck 0.26.1-1 depends on lua >= 5.1 (5.1-1 provided by VM)
luacheck 0.26.1-1 depends on argparse >= 0.6.0 (not installed)
Installing https://luarocks.org/argparse-0.7.1-1.src.rock

argparse 0.7.1-1 depends on lua >= 5.1, < 5.5 (5.1-1 provided by VM)
No existing manifest. Attempting to rebuild...
argparse 0.7.1-1 is now installed in /tmp/luarocks-3.8.0/./lua_modules (license: MIT)

luacheck 0.26.1-1 depends on luafilesystem >= 1.6.3 (not installed)
Installing https://luarocks.org/luafilesystem-1.8.0-1.src.rock

luafilesystem 1.8.0-1 depends on lua >= 5.1 (5.1-1 provided by VM)
gcc -O2 -fPIC -I/usr/include -c src/lfs.c -o src/lfs.o
gcc -shared -o lfs.so src/lfs.o
luafilesystem 1.8.0-1 is now installed in /tmp/luarocks-3.8.0/./lua_modules (license: MIT/X11)

luacheck 0.26.1-1 is now installed in /tmp/luarocks-3.8.0/./lua_modules (license: MIT)

carnei-ro · 2022-07-14T13:24:02Z

Indeed wget has precedence over curl and for luarocks >= 3.9 the flag --timestamping is crashing the wget "alpine version"

I'm removing wget as downloader :

sed -i '/WGET/d' /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks/fs/tools.lua

imolein · 2022-08-21T14:15:12Z

@carnei-ro I recognized this in my luarocks docker containers just now and find out that it's the busybox version of wget which don't have the option. After running apk add wget it is working.

alerque · 2022-08-21T17:17:15Z

If it is going to prioritize it above other options luarocks, should probably detect and support the busybox wget and gently downgrade the functionality.

Tieske · 2022-08-22T21:58:49Z

ran into this exact issue today as well. Seems like it should indeed detect. Or see if we can do without that --timestamping option

…arocks#952)

jianwu · 2023-04-18T18:41:42Z

First time to use Lua on my Macbook. Surprised to be blocked by such a basic function. Wasted hours of time to search around, I found it's caused by broken wget installation. After I run brew install wget, the problem solved. Seems this is a common problem, I think if some better error messages will be much helpful.

adoyle-h · 2023-04-25T11:49:27Z

I'm using MacOS. Running brew upgrade wget to upgrade wget to version 1.21.3_1 will solve this problem.

lalawue · 2023-07-09T03:58:32Z

using alpine 3.18 under LXD container, I choose to install luarocks from source, it works

first install curl, # add curl
modify luarocks-3.9.2/luarocks/fs/tools.lua, comment --{ var = "WGET", name = "wget" }, force luarocks using curl
it works

lboix · 2023-07-13T15:58:36Z

@carnei-ro I recognized this in my luarocks docker containers just now and find out that it's the busybox version of wget which don't have the option. After running apk add wget it is working.

I confirm that this adding fixed my pipeline too : https://github.com/sm360/nginx-ingress-controller-with-lua-resty-openidc/blob/main/Dockerfile#L10

Thanks for sharing it 👍

Anamura · 2023-07-29T16:28:30Z

Hi, same here. hello from 2023)

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