toolchain remove fails when update-hash does not exist

[brson]

If the update hash doesn't exist for a toolchain then toolchain remove returns an error:

PS C:\Users\Jonas\Documents\breeze-emu> rustup toolchain remove nightly-i686-pc-windows-msvc
info: uninstalling toolchain 'nightly-i686-pc-windows-msvc'
error: could not remove update hash file: 'C:\Users\Jonas\.multirust\update-hashes\nightly-i686-pc-windows-msvc' (Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. (os error 2))
PS C:\Users\Jonas\Documents\breeze-emu>

In this case the metadata was in an inconsistent state after a failed toolchain remove.

If the file doesn't exist then the error should silently be ignored.

Source.

[exscape]

Hmm, I just hit this over a year later.
In cygwin:

~ $ rustup toolchain uninstall nightly
info: uninstalling toolchain 'nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu'
error: could not remove 'install' directory: 'C:\Users\serenity\.rustup\toolchains\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu'
info: caused by: Access is denied. (os error 5)

So I figured I'd try again in a Windows admin cmd shell:

C:\>rustup toolchain uninstall nightly
info: uninstalling toolchain 'nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu'
error: could not remove 'update hash' file: 'C:\Users\serenity\.rustup\update-hashes\nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu'
info: caused by: The system cannot find the file specified. (os error 2)

[Moraxes]

I also ran into this. Worked around it by creating an empty file at that path. Although since its contents are evidently ignored (at least at toolchain remove time), it being missing should probably be ignored (or just don't remove it on a failed toolchain remove, I guess).

[jnm2]

Same thing. :-(

[nox]

This just busted a buildbot machine in Servo's CI. Quite unfortunate.

[ghost]

This issue can be closed now.
It didn't close when the fix was committed because I messed up the commit message.

[CAD97]

I just ran into this issue.

C:\Users\cad97>rustup toolchain uninstall beta-msvc
info: uninstalling toolchain 'beta-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc'
error: could not remove 'install' directory: 'D:\usr\.rustup\toolchains\beta-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc'
info: caused by: Access is denied. (os error 5)

# NOTE: RLS was running on beta-msvc in a different window; restarted RLS on beta-gnu here

C:\Users\cad97>rustup toolchain uninstall beta-msvc
info: uninstalling toolchain 'beta-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc'
error: could not remove 'update hash' file: 'D:\usr\.rustup\update-hashes\beta-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc'
info: caused by: The system cannot find the file specified. (os error 2)

[ghost]

What version of rustup did you use?

[CAD97]

C:\Users\cad97>rustup --version
rustup 1.13.0 (ea9259c1b 2018-07-16)

The latest, rustup self update doesn't install a newer version.
(But the date is before the fix; maybe a new version needs to be pushed?)
(I see 1.14 in the GitHub releases, but rustup self update does not update me to rustup:1.14.)