Neither installation method is working (docker nor pip)

[ErikBjare]

OS: Arch Linux

I'm an experienced Python developer, somewhat comfortable with docker.

With docker

Error log, click to expand

$ ./Blockstack-for-Linux-v0.20.1.sh pull
... (this woked fine)
$ ./Blockstack-for-Linux-v0.20.1.sh start
Enter your Blockstack Core password:
220b981dfc82b8991cfa067219cedd68d8c619457be3fbc096f8d61850d220d4
Set BLOCKSTACK_DEBUG to 1
Re-exec as `"/usr/bin/python", "/usr/local/bin/blockstack", "api", "start", "--secrets", "3"`
[2017-11-05 09:50:52,980] [DEBUG] [spv:103] (11.140634949904128) Using mainnet
[2017-11-05 09:50:53,028] [DEBUG] [cli:419] (11.140634949904128) Load secrets from 3
[2017-11-05 09:50:53,051] [DEBUG] [client:95] (11.140634949904128) Connect to https://node.blockstack.org:6263
[2017-11-05 09:50:53,053] [WARNING] [storage:632] (11.140634949904128) Storage implementation is missing a "get_immutable_handler" method
[2017-11-05 09:50:53,054] [WARNING] [storage:632] (11.140634949904128) Storage implementation is missing a "put_immutable_handler" method
[2017-11-05 09:50:53,054] [WARNING] [storage:632] (11.140634949904128) Storage implementation is missing a "delete_immutable_handler" method
[2017-11-05 09:50:53,055] [WARNING] [storage:632] (11.140634949904128) Storage implementation is missing a "delete_mutable_handler" method
[2017-11-05 09:50:53,141] [WARNING] [dropbox:188] (11) Config file '/root/.blockstack/client.ini': section 'dropbox' is missing 'token'.  Write access will be disabled
[2017-11-05 09:50:53,141] [DEBUG] [client:110] (11.140634949904128) Loaded storage drivers ['disk', 'gaia_hub', 'dropbox', 's3', 'blockstack_resolver', 'http', 'dht']
[2017-11-05 09:51:43,256] [ERROR] [rpc:5078] (11.140634949904128) Failed to start API endpoint: exit code 1
[2017-11-05 09:51:43,258] [ERROR] [rpc:5079] (11.140634949904128) Error log:
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,301] [DEBUG] [spv:103] (33.140215402075904) Using mainnet
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,557] [INFO] [rpc:5294] (33.140215402075904) API server version 0.17.0 starting...
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,557] [INFO] [rpc:5295] (33.140215402075904) Machine:   x86_64
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,557] [INFO] [rpc:5296] (33.140215402075904) Version:   #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 21 20:33:16 CEST 2017
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,557] [INFO] [rpc:5297] (33.140215402075904) Platform:  Linux-4.13.3-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,557] [INFO] [rpc:5298] (33.140215402075904) uname:     Linux 220b981dfc82 4.13.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 21 20:33:16 CEST 2017 x86_64 x86_64
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,557] [INFO] [rpc:5299] (33.140215402075904) System:    Linux
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,557] [INFO] [rpc:5300] (33.140215402075904) Processor: x86_64
  [2017-11-05 09:50:53,557] [INFO] [rpc:5301] (33.140215402075904) pip:
  asn1crypto==0.23.0
  base58==0.2.5
  basicrpc==0.0.2
  bitmerchant==0.1.8
  blockstack==0.17.0.11
  blockstack-profiles==0.14.1
  blockstack-zones==0.14.3
  boto==2.48.0
  cachetools==2.0.1
  certifi==2017.7.27.1
  cffi==1.11.2
  chardet==3.0.4
  cryptography==2.1.3
  defusedxml==0.5.0
  dropbox==8.4.1
  ecdsa==0.13
  enum34==1.1.6
  functools32==3.2.3.post2
  google-api-python-client==1.6.4
  httplib2==0.10.3
  idna==2.6
  ipaddress==1.0.18
  jsonpatch==1.16
  jsonpointer==1.14
  jsonschema==2.6.0
  jsontokens==0.0.4
  keychain==0.14.2.0
  keylib==0.1.1
  oauth2client==4.1.2
  onedrivesdk==1.1.8
  protocoin==0.2
  pyasn1==0.3.7
  pyasn1-modules==0.1.5
  pycparser==2.18
  PyDrive==1.3.1
  pyparsing==2.2.0
  PyYAML==3.12
  requests==2.18.4
  rsa==3.4.2
  scrypt==0.8.0
  simplejson==3.11.1
  six==1.11.0
  uritemplate==3.0.0
  urllib3==1.22
  utilitybelt==0.2.6
  virtualchain==0.17.0.4
  warlock==1.3.0
  [2017-11-05 09:50:58,096] [DEBUG] [rpc:5355] (33.140215402075904) Running in the background
  [2017-11-05 09:51:43,238] [ERROR] [utils:171] (33.140215402075904) Child exit status 256
  [2017-11-05 09:51:43,238] [ERROR] [rpc:5362] (33.140215402075904) API server failed to start
{
    "error": "Failed to start API endpoint (exit code 1)"
}
Failed to start Blockstack daemon -- is your password correct?
stopping the running blockstack-api container
220b981dfc82
220b981dfc82

---

Additionally, `sensible-browser` is not available on Arch so I made a symlink to chromium and put it in my PATH. You might want to use another method to start a browser than `sensible-browser`.

Error log, click to expand

Enter your Blockstack Core password:
89a5913dd9c5bf54aca86d419835fe7d318f6b03b455ae3dc51218f2d2b2620d
Set BLOCKSTACK_DEBUG to 1
Re-exec as `"/usr/bin/python", "/usr/local/bin/blockstack", "api", "start", "--secrets", "3"`
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,471] [DEBUG] [spv:103] (11.140359732942592) Using mainnet
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,521] [DEBUG] [cli:419] (11.140359732942592) Load secrets from 3
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,543] [DEBUG] [client:95] (11.140359732942592) Connect to https://node.blockstack.org:6263
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,546] [WARNING] [storage:632] (11.140359732942592) Storage implementation is missing a "get_immutable_handler" method
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,546] [WARNING] [storage:632] (11.140359732942592) Storage implementation is missing a "put_immutable_handler" method
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,547] [WARNING] [storage:632] (11.140359732942592) Storage implementation is missing a "delete_immutable_handler" method
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,548] [WARNING] [storage:632] (11.140359732942592) Storage implementation is missing a "delete_mutable_handler" method
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,632] [WARNING] [dropbox:188] (11) Config file '/root/.blockstack/client.ini': section 'dropbox' is missing 'token'.  Write access will be disabled
[2017-11-05 10:03:34,632] [DEBUG] [client:110] (11.140359732942592) Loaded storage drivers ['disk', 'gaia_hub', 'dropbox', 's3', 'blockstack_resolver', 'http', 'dht']
{
    "status": true
}
23cff424adc3c3eb7af1a2ea65e6771278be301fb0838d0f427efa50d6b1887f
fd6eb4a1fd96918bb473d46745c2ffdf20d93438ba0ecbff3acf13de3f8c8aee
./Blockstack-for-Linux-v0.20.1.sh: line 140: sensible-browser: command not found

With pip

Off-topic: Why Python 2? In ~2 years it will no longer be maintained.

Error log, click to expand

$ sudo pip2 install blockstack
... (this worked fine)
$ blockstack
{
    "error": "Unexpected error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"/usr/bin/blockstack\", line 52, in 
    result = run_cli()
  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blockstack_client/cli.py\", line 440, in run_cli
    res = config.setup_config(config_path=config_path, interactive=(os.environ.get(\"BLOCKSTACK_CLIENT_INTERACTIVE_YES\") != '1'))
  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blockstack_client/config.py\", line 1026, in setup_config
    conf = configure(config_file=config_path, interactive=interactive, set_migrate=True)
  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blockstack_client/config.py\", line 297, in configure
    all_opts = read_config_file(config_path=config_file, set_migrate=set_migrate)
  File \"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blockstack_client/config.py\", line 852, in read_config_file
    if ret['blockstack-client']['server'] == 'node.blockstack.org':
KeyError: 'blockstack-client'
",
    "help": "Try getting latest version of CLI with \"sudo pip install blockstack --upgrade\""
}

I got the same error with blockstack setup. Somehow it seems like the config is missing? Shouldn't it be created when first run?

[ErikBjare]

I skimmed the script and found that you're just opening localhost:8888 when done with the other stuff, so I tried navigating there manually and it worked. 🤷‍♂️

Hopefully my logs are still of use to you.

[kantai]

Thanks for raising this issue, and I'm glad you worked out opening the localhost:8888 endpoint manually. We're currently exploring better Linux install paths, over here (stacks-archive/blockstack-browser#1080), and would always appreciate user input.

Anyways, closing this issue for now, because it seems like you worked it out.