brew traceback on almost all commands

Created on 22 Oct 2019 · 8Comments · Source: Homebrew/brew

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What you were trying to do (and why)

Using homebrew after the Catalina upgrade ( macOS 10.15 (19A602) )

What happened (include command output)

The brew command traceback, including brew doctor and brew config, so I won't be able to paste their output here.

Command output

Traceback (most recent call last):
3: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:in <main>' 2: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:inrequire_relative'
1: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:12:in <top (required)>' /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:12:inrequire': cannot load such file -- active_support/core_ext/object/blank (LoadError)

Strangely, brew update works most of the time, but happens to traceback too.

What you expected to happen

Normal usage.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running `brew` commands)

Run any one of those commands:

brew doctor
brew search vim
brew upgrade
...

Source

q-b

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Most helpful comment

Can you try running brew update-reset?

jonchang on 23 Oct 2019

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All 8 comments

It looks like I'm up-to-date:

/usr/local/Homebrew master*
❯ git log -n 1 HEAD
commit cddf402365e83608f5dbd1bec44d7b544936a370 (HEAD -> master, origin/master)
Merge: 368b80aa8 20e85acec
Author: Mike McQuaid <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Oct 22 09:15:51 2019 +0100

    Merge pull request #6620 from scpeters/must_exist_frameworks

    os/mac/keg: Frameworks -> MUST_EXIST_DIRECTORIES

q-b on 22 Oct 2019

Can you try running brew update-reset?

jonchang on 23 Oct 2019

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If you're not sure or want to ask a question do so on our Discourse: https://discourse.brew.sh

This is not an issue everyone is experiencing so closing with assumption brew update-reset will fix things. Please take future similar issues to Discourse.

MikeMcQuaid on 23 Oct 2019

Thank you guys, I wasn't aware of the brew update-reset command but it fixed my issue.
I'll remember to try discourse first next time, sorry for wasting your time!

q-b on 23 Oct 2019

No worries @q-b, glad you got it sorted!

MikeMcQuaid on 24 Oct 2019

I've just hit the same issue after I upgraded Xcode on macOS Catalina 10.15.1 from 11.1 to 11.2. Running brew update-reset fixed the issue.

Just posting to state this is not an isolated incident and more people may be affected.

mgol on 1 Nov 2019

I also run into this issue once I executed brew cleanup some time after the upgrade from 10.14 to 10.15. brew update-reset fixed the problem for me as well.

bmario on 4 Nov 2019

I just hit this issue! Macosx Catalina 10.15 . Can't install homebrew !
`==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
remote: Enumerating objects: 79, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (79/79), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (50/50), done.
remote: Total 129957 (delta 35), reused 47 (delta 29), pack-reused 129878
Receiving objects: 100% (129957/129957), 31.08 MiB | 1.11 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (95356/95356), done.
From https://github.com/Homebrew/brew

[new branch] master -> origin/master
[new tag] 0.1 -> 0.1
[new tag] 0.2 -> 0.2
[new tag] 0.3 -> 0.3
[new tag] 0.4 -> 0.4
[new tag] 0.5 -> 0.5
[new tag] 0.6 -> 0.6
[new tag] 0.7 -> 0.7
[new tag] 0.7.1 -> 0.7.1
[new tag] 0.8 -> 0.8
[new tag] 0.8.1 -> 0.8.1
[new tag] 0.9 -> 0.9
[new tag] 0.9.1 -> 0.9.1
[new tag] 0.9.2 -> 0.9.2
[new tag] 0.9.3 -> 0.9.3
[new tag] 0.9.4 -> 0.9.4
[new tag] 0.9.5 -> 0.9.5
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[new tag] 1.0.0 -> 1.0.0
[new tag] 1.0.1 -> 1.0.1
[new tag] 1.0.2 -> 1.0.2
[new tag] 1.0.3 -> 1.0.3
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[new tag] 1.0.9 -> 1.0.9
[new tag] 1.1.0 -> 1.1.0
[new tag] 1.1.1 -> 1.1.1
[new tag] 1.1.10 -> 1.1.10
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[new tag] 1.1.7 -> 1.1.7
[new tag] 1.1.8 -> 1.1.8
[new tag] 1.1.9 -> 1.1.9
[new tag] 1.2.0 -> 1.2.0
[new tag] 1.2.1 -> 1.2.1
[new tag] 1.2.2 -> 1.2.2
[new tag] 1.2.3 -> 1.2.3
[new tag] 1.2.4 -> 1.2.4
[new tag] 1.2.5 -> 1.2.5
[new tag] 1.2.6 -> 1.2.6
[new tag] 1.3.0 -> 1.3.0
[new tag] 1.3.1 -> 1.3.1
[new tag] 1.3.2 -> 1.3.2
[new tag] 1.3.3 -> 1.3.3
[new tag] 1.3.4 -> 1.3.4
[new tag] 1.3.5 -> 1.3.5
[new tag] 1.3.6 -> 1.3.6
[new tag] 1.3.7 -> 1.3.7
[new tag] 1.3.8 -> 1.3.8
[new tag] 1.3.9 -> 1.3.9
[new tag] 1.4.0 -> 1.4.0
[new tag] 1.4.1 -> 1.4.1
[new tag] 1.4.2 -> 1.4.2
[new tag] 1.4.3 -> 1.4.3
[new tag] 1.5.0 -> 1.5.0
[new tag] 1.5.1 -> 1.5.1
[new tag] 1.5.10 -> 1.5.10
[new tag] 1.5.11 -> 1.5.11
[new tag] 1.5.12 -> 1.5.12
[new tag] 1.5.13 -> 1.5.13
[new tag] 1.5.14 -> 1.5.14
[new tag] 1.5.2 -> 1.5.2
[new tag] 1.5.3 -> 1.5.3
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[new tag] 1.5.6 -> 1.5.6
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[new tag] 1.5.9 -> 1.5.9
[new tag] 1.6.0 -> 1.6.0
[new tag] 1.6.1 -> 1.6.1
[new tag] 1.6.10 -> 1.6.10
[new tag] 1.6.11 -> 1.6.11
[new tag] 1.6.12 -> 1.6.12
[new tag] 1.6.13 -> 1.6.13
[new tag] 1.6.14 -> 1.6.14
[new tag] 1.6.15 -> 1.6.15
[new tag] 1.6.16 -> 1.6.16
[new tag] 1.6.17 -> 1.6.17
[new tag] 1.6.2 -> 1.6.2
[new tag] 1.6.3 -> 1.6.3
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[new tag] 1.6.5 -> 1.6.5
[new tag] 1.6.6 -> 1.6.6
[new tag] 1.6.7 -> 1.6.7
[new tag] 1.6.8 -> 1.6.8
[new tag] 1.6.9 -> 1.6.9
[new tag] 1.7.0 -> 1.7.0
[new tag] 1.7.1 -> 1.7.1
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[new tag] 1.7.3 -> 1.7.3
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[new tag] 1.7.7 -> 1.7.7
[new tag] 1.8.0 -> 1.8.0
[new tag] 1.8.1 -> 1.8.1
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[new tag] 1.8.3 -> 1.8.3
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[new tag] 1.8.6 -> 1.8.6
[new tag] 1.9.0 -> 1.9.0
[new tag] 1.9.1 -> 1.9.1
[new tag] 1.9.2 -> 1.9.2
[new tag] 1.9.3 -> 1.9.3
[new tag] 2.0.0 -> 2.0.0
[new tag] 2.0.1 -> 2.0.1
[new tag] 2.0.2 -> 2.0.2
[new tag] 2.0.3 -> 2.0.3
[new tag] 2.0.4 -> 2.0.4
[new tag] 2.0.5 -> 2.0.5
[new tag] 2.0.6 -> 2.0.6
[new tag] 2.1.0 -> 2.1.0
[new tag] 2.1.1 -> 2.1.1
[new tag] 2.1.10 -> 2.1.10
[new tag] 2.1.11 -> 2.1.11
[new tag] 2.1.12 -> 2.1.12
[new tag] 2.1.13 -> 2.1.13
[new tag] 2.1.14 -> 2.1.14
[new tag] 2.1.15 -> 2.1.15
[new tag] 2.1.16 -> 2.1.16
[new tag] 2.1.2 -> 2.1.2
[new tag] 2.1.3 -> 2.1.3
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[new tag] 2.1.5 -> 2.1.5
[new tag] 2.1.6 -> 2.1.6
[new tag] 2.1.7 -> 2.1.7
[new tag] 2.1.8 -> 2.1.8
[new tag] 2.1.9 -> 2.1.9
[new tag] 2.2.0 -> 2.2.0
[new tag] 2.2.1 -> 2.2.1
HEAD is now at 2749c52d3 Merge pull request #6840 from GauthamGoli/argv-cleanup-6
Traceback (most recent call last):
9: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:in <main>' 8: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:inrequire_relative'
7: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:109:in <top (required)>' 6: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:109:innew'
5: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/PATH.rb:10:in initialize' 4: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/PATH.rb:73:inparse'
3: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/PATH.rb:73:in flat_map' 2: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/PATH.rb:73:ineach'
1: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/PATH.rb:73:in block in parse' /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/PATH.rb:73:insplit': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)
Failed during: /usr/local/bin/brew update --force`