RVM claims it can't find curl when using node-which; Node.js builds contain ./node_modules/bin in $PATH

[cvrebert]

This literally stopped working just a few minutes ago.

• Working build
• Failed build log:

$ rvm install 2.0.0 && rvm use 2.0.0
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0-p598.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for ubuntu.
Requirements installation successful.
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #configure
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #download
RVM requires 'curl'. Install 'curl' first and try again.
There was an error(200).
Checking fallback: ftp://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0-p598.tar.bz2?rvm=1.26.8
Checking fallback: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0-p598.tar.bz2?rvm=1.26.8
No fallback URL could be found, try increasing timeout with:
    echo "export rvm_max_time_flag=20" >> ~/.rvmrc
Downloading https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0-p598.tar.bz2 failed.
Mounting remote ruby failed with status 2, trying to compile.
Checking requirements for ubuntu.
Requirements installation successful.
Installing Ruby from source to: /home/travis/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p598, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #downloading ruby-2.0.0-p598, this may take a while depending on your connection...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 10.2M  100 10.2M    0     0  46.1M      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 53.7M
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #extracting ruby-2.0.0-p598 to /home/travis/.rvm/src/ruby-2.0.0-p598....
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #configuring..................................................
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #post-configuration..
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #compiling.............................................................................
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #installing..............................
ruby-2.0.0-p598 - #making binaries executable..
RVM requires 'curl'. Install 'curl' first and try again.
There was an error while trying to resolve rubygems version for 'latest'. 
Halting the installation.
The command "rvm install 2.0.0 && rvm use 2.0.0" failed and exited with 4 during .

Obviously, falling back to compiling Ruby from source should be avoided if at all possible.

[cvrebert]

The error has mysteriously stopped occurring.

[cvrebert]

It's still happening: https://travis-ci.org/twbs/bootstrap/jobs/90976058
Apparently it's intermittent.

[cvrebert]

@BanzaiMan Help?

[BanzaiMan]

This is peculiar. My current guess is that the instance used in the failing builds were somehow lacking curl or had $PATH wrong.

[cvrebert]

Okay, it gets even weirder. curl is installed on the system, despite what RVM claims.
From the debug output added to https://travis-ci.org/twbs/bootstrap/jobs/91526407 :

$ echo $PATH
/home/travis/.nvm/versions/node/v4.2.2/bin:/home/travis/bin:/home/travis/.local/bin:/home/travis/.gimme/versions/go1.4.1.linux.amd64/bin:/usr/local/phantomjs/bin:./node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/maven-3.2.5/bin:/usr/local/clang-3.4/bin:/home/travis/.gimme/versions/go1.4.1.linux.amd64/bin:/usr/local/phantomjs/bin:./node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/maven-3.2.5/bin:/usr/local/clang-3.4/bin:/home/travis/.gimme/versions/go1.4.1.linux.amd64/bin:/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551/bin:/home/travis/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p551@global/bin:/home/travis/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p551/bin:/usr/local/phantomjs/bin:./node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/maven-3.2.5/bin:/usr/local/clang-3.4/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/home/travis/.rvm/bin:/home/travis/.rvm/bin:/home/travis/.rvm/bin
$ which curl || true
/usr/bin/curl
$ ls -l /usr/bin/curl || true
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 129696 Jan 14  2015 /usr/bin/curl
$ rvm install 2.2
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/ruby-2.2.0.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for ubuntu.
Requirements installation successful.
ruby-2.2.0 - #configure
ruby-2.2.0 - #download
RVM requires 'curl'. Install 'curl' first and try again.
There was an error(200).

[cvrebert]

Still repros even after upgrading to rvm 1.26.11: https://travis-ci.org/twbs/bootstrap/jobs/91533567

[cvrebert]

Filed rvm/rvm#3559 since the evidence points towards a possible bug in RVM.

[XhmikosR]

This still happens. If I clear the cache it works though.

[XhmikosR]

Example, failing https://travis-ci.org/mpc-hc/mpc-hc.org/builds/93137684
with cache cleared https://travis-ci.org/mpc-hc/mpc-hc.org/builds/93137684

Same build, it's just the cache is cleared.

[BanzaiMan]

@XhmikosR Does the build reliably fail if you keep the cache?

[XhmikosR]

Yeah it would seem so.
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[XhmikosR]

I noticed the same thing with bootstrap too BTW.
On Nov 25, 2015 15:26, "XhmikosR" xhmikosr@gmail.com wrote:

Yeah it would seem so.
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[BanzaiMan]

What bootstrap?

[XhmikosR]

The original post is for Bootstrap but I notice the same failures in my other projects too.

[cvrebert]

Judging by https://travis-ci.org/twbs/bootstrap/builds/93292414 , it seems that the problem occurs even if the caching is only of node_modules and not RubyGems.

[RX14]

Same error: https://travis-ci.com/RX14/TRLauncher-v2/builds/19471269

[RX14]

Actually, this occurs whether caching is on or not.

[BanzaiMan]

Hello. Our attempt to remove ./node_modules/.bin from $PATH negatively affected many existing builds.

This issue is going to cause pain in non-negligible number of users either way, unfortunately.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

@BanzaiMan It broke many existing builds (based on this bug too) on the other side too, so at least assume the correct default and let people fix it (I personally lost various hours due to unpredicted behavior).

What about providing at least a configuration option to disable this behavior? That would be enough, instead of having to hack around with `,

[BanzaiMan]

See also: #4862.

[vvo]

This issue is really long, the tl;dr; is:

• travis by default puts ./node_modules/.bin as globally available binaries (modifying PATH)
• some projects might rely on that (like Ember)
• there's no decision for now taken
• there's an open PR Remove ./node_modules/.bin from $PATH travis-build#903 and Remove ./node_modules/bin from $PATH travis-cookbooks#786

There's a way to solve it for you:

before_cache:
  - rm -f ./node_modules/.bin/which # <-- workaround for https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-

[szimek]

Wouldn't it be possible to add a setting like:

i_do_not_want_all_my_node_modules_binaries_to_be_global_thank_you: true

(or something similar 😉) that would cause ./node_modules/.bin to be not added to PATH? This could become the default behavior e.g. when a new image is released in the future.

There's even npx tool distributed with node (via npm 5.2.0+) to run local binaries: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/162869356040/introducing-npx-an-npm-package-runner, so if anyone depends on the current behavior, it's enough to change e.g. which curl to npx which curl - no need to modify package.json or PATH.

[ankon]

[An option in .travis.yml] that would cause ./node_modules/.bin to be not added to PATH? This could become the default behavior e.g. when a new image is released in the future.

That would be much appreciated indeed!

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[ankon]

This problem still exists, and is still as annoying as ever -- please keep it open :)

[stale]

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[ankon]

Bot: Can you leave this open and linked to travis-ci/travis-build#1263 please? :)

[crequena-babbel]

As workaround for this bug I'm doing this in the .travis.yml :

PATH="/bin:$PATH" rvm use $(< .ruby-version) --install --binary --fuzzy