Cannot install asciidoctor on Linux

[jmuchovej]

just had to reset my brew installation because of a username change. prior to the username change, i had no errors with my installation.

the general error appears to be that /path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor/.../Tressprocessor somehow exists – yet manual inspection shows /path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor doesn't even exist. additionally, it doesn't seem like brew does any [failed] cleanup, so i don't see any residual files related to asciidoctor.

the permissions on all directories in /path/to/brew are 775 (which they have been since i started using brew on Linux). i don't have this issue on my Pop!_OS machine, but i do have it on my Proxmox machine.

Proxmox:

Linux pve 5.4.65-1-pve #1 SMP PVE 5.4.65-1 (Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:40:22 +0200) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Pop!_OS:

Linux pop 5.11.0-7614-generic #15~1618626693~20.10~ecb25cd-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 22 16:00:45 UTC  x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

here's the command i actually run: (this also occurs for anything that depends on asciidoctor.)

$ brew install asciidoctor
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/linuxbrew/core/asciidoctor/manifests/2.0.15
Already downloaded: /path/to/cache/Homebrew/downloads/893100c8be594e7744ade410b13262bc597c05c9fbae211f28e3ac038792dabf--asciidoctor-2.0.15.bottle_manifest.json
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/linuxbrew/core/asciidoctor/blobs/sha256:dc683b88a5964ec8fe4c2f76ad3f4b44d139f8c19bd965e33451803ed1eaac9b
Already downloaded: /path/to/cache/Homebrew/downloads/43c0d9039a898ce900350101410363a54ac56347c97fadbc47d27a181f28d1da--asciidoctor--2.0.15.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring asciidoctor--2.0.15.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
cp: cannot create directory '/path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor/2.0.15/libexec/doc/asciidoctor-2.0.15/ri/Asciidoctor/Extensions/Treeprocessor': File exists
Error: Failure while executing; `cp -pR /tmp/d20210603-3399506-mcat6l/asciidoctor/. /path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor` exited with 1. Here's the output:
cp: cannot create directory '/path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor/2.0.15/libexec/doc/asciidoctor-2.0.15/ri/Asciidoctor/Extensions/Treeprocessor': File exists

any ideas that don't require a fresh install of brew? 😅

EDIT 1: add brew config and brew doctor output.

brew config

$ brew config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 3.1.9-121-g654c78c
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 654c78c2d7aec2620f006f9e5bd07ec498c32d5d
Last commit: 6 hours ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew-core
Core tap HEAD: c8f5ecd5b499e3bd9c1cb6b660d5329feb9b2274
Core tap last commit: 87 minutes ago
Core tap branch: master
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /path/to/brew
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /path/to/brew
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /path/to/brew/Cellar
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: vim
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 8
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.3 => /path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.6.3_2/bin/ruby
CPU: octa-core 64-bit skylake
Clang: N/A
Git: 2.20.1 => /bin/git
Curl: 7.64.0 => /usr/bin/curl
Kernel: Linux 5.4.65-1-pve x86_64 GNU/Linux
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (buster)
Host glibc: 2.28
/usr/bin/gcc: 8.3.0
/usr/bin/ruby: N/A
glibc: N/A
gcc@5: N/A
xorg: N/A

brew doctor

$ brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Some installed formulae are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  guile@2

Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and which additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew-provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/freetype-config
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/ncursesw6-config
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/libpng16-config
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/libpng-config
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/xml2-config
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/pcre-config
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/python3-config
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/python3.8-config
  /path/to/miniconda/bin/icu-config

Warning: Your Homebrew's prefix is not /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew.
Some of Homebrew's bottles (binary packages) can only be used with the default
prefix (/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew).
You will encounter build failures with some formulae.
Please create pull requests instead of asking for help on Homebrew's GitHub,
Twitter or any other official channels. You are responsible for resolving
any issues you experience while you are running this
unsupported configuration.

i'll also note that brew doctor gave the same output prior to this reinstall and i've had similar setups on like 10 different Linux machines without error. 😅 (i only have access to 2 of them at the moment, though.)

[carlocab]

What's the output of brew config and brew doctor? CC @Homebrew/linux

[jmuchovej]

updated my post.

[danielnachun]

Can you run brew install -v --debug asciidoctor so we can see the verbose and debug output? Since the exact same installation on a different machine doesn't throw any errors, I don't think it's because the bottle contains duplicate files. If your Promox system is a server and your Homebrew install is on a network file system, it's possible there is some weird issue with directory permissions or free space/inode limits.

[jmuchovej]

so, the directory this is on is a ZFS dataset; but it's the same one i had a working install on (i also have >4TB of free space on this dataset). this is for my user directly on the Proxmox machine (vs as a network share).

brew install -v --debug asciidoctor

$ brew install -v --debug asciidoctor
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/asciidoctor.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/[email protected]
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/pkg-config.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/libyaml.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/autoconf.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/m4.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/perl.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/shims/scm/git --version
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/berkeley-db.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/[email protected]
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/gdbm.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/expat.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/automake.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/libtool.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/readline.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/ncurses.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/gpatch.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/zlib.rb
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/[email protected]
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb (Formulary::FormulaLoader): loading /path/to/brew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/glibc.rb
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/linuxbrew/core/asciidoctor/manifests/2.0.15
/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --show-error --user-agent Linuxbrew/3.1.9-121-g654c78c\ \(Linux\;\ x86_64\ Debian\ GNU/Linux\ 10\ \(buster\)\)\ curl/7.64.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --retry 3 --header Accept:\ application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1\+json --header Authorization:\ Bearer\ QQ== --location --silent --head --request GET https://ghcr.io/v2/linuxbrew/core/asciidoctor/manifests/2.0.15
Already downloaded: /path/to/cache/Homebrew/downloads/893100c8be594e7744ade410b13262bc597c05c9fbae211f28e3ac038792dabf--asciidoctor-2.0.15.bottle_manifest.json
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/linuxbrew/core/asciidoctor/blobs/sha256:dc683b88a5964ec8fe4c2f76ad3f4b44d139f8c19bd965e33451803ed1eaac9b
/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --show-error --user-agent Linuxbrew/3.1.9-121-g654c78c\ \(Linux\;\ x86_64\ Debian\ GNU/Linux\ 10\ \(buster\)\)\ curl/7.64.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --retry 3 --header Authorization:\ Bearer\ QQ== --location --silent --head --request GET https://ghcr.io/v2/linuxbrew/core/asciidoctor/blobs/sha256:dc683b88a5964ec8fe4c2f76ad3f4b44d139f8c19bd965e33451803ed1eaac9b
Already downloaded: /path/to/cache/Homebrew/downloads/43c0d9039a898ce900350101410363a54ac56347c97fadbc47d27a181f28d1da--asciidoctor--2.0.15.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
==> Verifying checksum for '43c0d9039a898ce900350101410363a54ac56347c97fadbc47d27a181f28d1da--asciidoctor--2.0.15.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz'
git config --get homebrew.private
git config --get homebrew.analyticsdisabled
git config --get homebrew.analyticsdisabled
==> Pouring asciidoctor--2.0.15.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
tar --extract --no-same-owner --file /path/to/cache/Homebrew/downloads/43c0d9039a898ce900350101410363a54ac56347c97fadbc47d27a181f28d1da--asciidoctor--2.0.15.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz --directory /tmp/d20210603-3675734-6b76yc
cp -pR /tmp/d20210603-3675734-6b76yc/asciidoctor/. /path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor
cp: cannot create directory '/path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor/2.0.15/libexec/doc/asciidoctor-2.0.15/ri/Asciidoctor/Extensions/Treeprocessor': File exists
Error: Failure while executing; `cp -pR /tmp/d20210603-3675734-6b76yc/asciidoctor/. /path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor` exited with 1. Here's the output:
cp: cannot create directory '/path/to/brew/Cellar/asciidoctor/2.0.15/libexec/doc/asciidoctor-2.0.15/ri/Asciidoctor/Extensions/Treeprocessor': File exists

/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/system_command.rb:302:in `assert_success!'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/system_command.rb:65:in `run!'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/system_command.rb:40:in `run'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/system_command.rb:44:in `run!'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/system_command.rb:32:in `system_command!'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/unpack_strategy/directory.rb:27:in `block in extract_to_dir'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/unpack_strategy/directory.rb:26:in `each'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/unpack_strategy/directory.rb:26:in `extract_to_dir'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/unpack_strategy.rb:141:in `extract'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/unpack_strategy.rb:161:in `block in extract_nestedly'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.6.3_2/lib/ruby/2.6.0/tmpdir.rb:93:in `mktmpdir'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/unpack_strategy.rb:145:in `extract_nestedly'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb:99:in `stage'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb:37:in `stage'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/software_spec.rb:346:in `stage'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:1145:in `block in pour'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:303:in `block in cd'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:303:in `chdir'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:303:in `cd'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:1144:in `pour'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb:418:in `install'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:422:in `install_formula'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:324:in `block in install'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:322:in `each'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb:322:in `install'
/path/to/brew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:122:in `<main>'

EDIT 1: clarify Proxmox setup further.