"error reading rustc version" installing windows-gnu

[brson]

I'm not sure what causes this, but the toolchain does seem to work.

$ RUSTUP_DIST_SERVER=https://dev-static.rust-lang.org rustup update stable-i686-pc-windows-gnu
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-i686-pc-windows-gnu'
info: downloading component 'rustc'
info: downloading component 'rust-std'
info: downloading component 'cargo'
info: downloading component 'rust-docs'
info: downloading component 'rust-mingw'
info: installing component 'rustc'
info: installing component 'rust-std'
info: installing component 'cargo'
info: installing component 'rust-docs'
info: installing component 'rust-mingw'

  stable-i686-pc-windows-gnu installed - (error reading rustc version)

[mati865]

Does it still happen after #1130?

[mati865]

I was able to reproduce this issue on 14 years old HDD with both Windows and Linux:

$ rustup update
info: syncing channel updates for 'nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
info: checking for self-updates

  nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - (timeout reading rustc version)

But I doubt somebody is still using such old HDD for main partition.

@brson ping. Do you still have this issue after updating to rustup 1.4.0?

[Diggsey]

Looks like a dupe of #1118