[Glass] Cannot load Metacello nor Glass in Glass itself (spot bug)

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Dale Henrichs <
dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> Mariano,
>
> The github downloads aren't very good at providing good error messages ...
> I have recently (in last month) improved some of the error handling for
> github, but those improvements are only in the github repo and if you can't
> download from github then you probably aren't using them...
>
>
Indeed. But something is weird: I could successfully bootstrap GLASS, using
the installGLASS you provided me...doesn't this script use any github
repo????


> But your use case of running multiple glass users (at the linux level) is
> probably not accounted for  in the github implementation so additional work
> needs to be done there to accomodate multiple users on the same machine
> using Metacello ...
>
>
ouch.....


> I've submitted a metacello bug[1] to track the issue ...
>
> Until I can fix the bug, you the code  there are a number of methods that
> make the assumption that /tmp can be used as a temporary dumping ground for
> files:
>
>   MCGitHubRepository class>>projectDirectoryFrom:version:
>   MetacelloGemStonePlatform>>downloadFile:to:
>   MetacelloGemStonePlatform>>extractRepositoryFrom:to:
>
> Presumably these methods could be hacked to replace the use of '/tmp' with
> a suitable image-specific replacement ... where you can set the root temp
> directory to something that works for you ... this is probably the route I
> will take for the final solution ...
>

Thanks. I indeed found other files in /tmp which were owned by a different
system user... I have removed them like "sudo rm github*" and "sudo rm
curl*".

Still...same problem. I then tried stopping and starting stone again.
Still, same problem. Finally I drop the extent and I bootstrapped
everything from scratch again...why? because I thought some class var or
something could have been persisted with wrong stuff or garbage. So I
started again with that just bootstrapped glass and an empty /tmp and that
worked!!!

So I should wait for your fix to have multiple system users sharing the
same /tmp, right?

Let me know if I can be of help.

Thanks,


> Dale
>
> [1] https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/issues/232
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
> marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have managed to install Glass into a base extent using the installGlass
>> script provided by Dale. I am running this with a special user, not
>> DataCurator, but with similar privileges. I can install Glass, but then as
>> soon as I try to download something with Metacello...I get a spec
>> resolution error....
>> It is important to note that all gems/netldi/stone are also running with
>> its own system user.
>>
>> I am trying to download this for example:
>>
>>   Metacello new
>>  baseline:  'Metacello';
>> repository: 'github://dalehenrich/metacello-work:master/repository';
>>  get.
>>
>> First, I found a bug in #extractRepositoryFrom: zipFile to: directory
>> I was getting a simple GoferRepositoryError with no clear message. AFter
>> debugging a bit, I found that such a method was end up doing something like:
>>
>> /usr/bin/unzip -u /tmp/github.zip -d
>> /home/Testing/github-cache/dalehenrich/metacello-work/master 2> /tmp/zip.err
>>
>> Problem was that I ALREADY had a /tmp/zip.err but that was written with
>> another SO user... and defined unix file permission, didn't allow to write
>> it with a different user..hence I was getting a permission denied which
>> ended in sending #contentsOfEntireFile to nil...
>> So would it be possible to write zip.err with a more specific name? like
>> per stone or something...or give write access to other ...
>>
>> Anyway....I remove the file with sudo and then it continue...but still
>> getting a spec resolution error...but what is funny here is that I don't
>> get ANY error nor repository error.. the line " self
>> resolvePackageSpecReferences: packageSpec gofer: gofer  " simply returns an
>> empty array....
>>
>> Any idea what could be?  any bell? remember, custom system operating user
>> (not sudoer), custom gemstone user, custom glass install, ... so yeah, kind
>> of sounds like I should get problems hahahah
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mariano
>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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