Homebrew-cask: Bug report: `info` of outdated cask raises

Created on 13 Aug 2016 · 20Comments · Source: Homebrew/homebrew-cask

brew cask info atom errors with No such file or directory - /usr/local/Caskroom/atom/1.9.8. Looking inside /usr/local/Caskroom/atom, I appear to have version 1.9.7 installed. I moved another, unrelated cask's inner folder to a different name, ran brew cask info other_cask and had the same error pop up.

Output of brew cask info atom --verbose

Error: No such file or directory - /usr/local/Caskroom/atom/1.9.8
  Most likely, this means you have an outdated version of Homebrew-Cask. Please run:

      brew uninstall --force brew-cask; brew untap phinze/cask; brew untap caskroom/cask; brew update; brew cleanup; brew cask cleanup

  If this doesn’t fix the problem, please report this bug:

      https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask#reporting-bugs

/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:50:in `lstat'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:50:in `lstat'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:50:in `compute_disk_usage'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:21:in `abv'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:19:in `info'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:8:in `block in run'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:5:in `each'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:5:in `run'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli.rb:108:in `run_command'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli.rb:146:in `process'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/cmd/brew-cask.rb:23:in `<top (required)>'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:22:in `require?'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:93:in `<main>'
Error: Kernel.exit

Output of brew doctor

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Output of brew cask doctor

==> macOS Release:
10.11.6
==> Hardware Architecture:
intel-64
==> Ruby Version:
2.0.0-p648
==> Ruby Path:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby
==> Homebrew Version:
Homebrew 0.9.9 (git revision b40b0; last commit 2016-08-13)
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 35ae; last commit 2016-08-13)
==> Homebrew Executable Path:
/usr/local/bin/brew
==> Homebrew Cellar Path:
/usr/local/Cellar
==> Homebrew Repository Path:
/usr/local
==> Homebrew Origin:
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
==> Homebrew-Cask Version:
0.60.0 (git revision 96c1; last commit 5 hours ago)
==> Homebrew-Cask Install Location:
<NONE>
==> Homebrew-Cask Staging Location:
/usr/local/Caskroom
==> Homebrew-Cask Cached Downloads:
/Users/.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask
0 files, 0B
==> Homebrew-Cask Default Tap Path:
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask
==> Homebrew-Cask Alternate Cask Taps:
<NONE>
==> Homebrew-Cask Default Tap Cask Count:
3257
==> Contents of $LOAD_PATH:
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin15
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0/universal-darwin15
/Library/Ruby/Site
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin15
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/universal-darwin15
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin15
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/universal-darwin15
==> Contents of $RUBYLIB Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $RUBYOPT Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $RUBYPATH Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $RBENV_VERSION Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $CHRUBY_VERSION Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $GEM_HOME Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $GEM_PATH Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $BUNDLE_PATH Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $PATH Environment Variable:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/cmd:/usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services/cmd:/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/shims/scm"
==> Contents of $SHELL Environment Variable:
SHELL="/usr/local/bin/fish"
==> Contents of Locale Environment Variables:
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
==> Running As Privileged User:
No

Source

wfdd

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Would it make sense to add a line to info to show when a cask is installed but not current? Analogously to Not installed. For example:

mono-mdk: 4.4.2.11
http://mono-project.com/
Not up-to-date
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/mono-mdk/4.2.1.102 (does not exist)
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/mono-mdk/4.4.0.142 (295.0M)
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/mono-mdk/4.4.1.0 (302.6M)
From: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/mono-mdk.rb
==> Name
Mono
==> Artifacts
MonoFramework-MDK-4.4.2.11.macos10.xamarin.universal.pkg (pkg)

wickles on 15 Aug 2016

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As an aside, the output or brew cask doctor has my OS X username under the 'Homebrew-Cask Cached Downloads' heading. A less astute copy-paster might unwittingly reveal their name.

wfdd on 13 Aug 2016

Also, error message shouldn't suggest brew untap phinze/cask command. As of https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/16094#issuecomment-167276090

sanyer on 14 Aug 2016

@sanyer That comment instructs you not to _tap_ phinze/cask, not _untap_ it. Some folks have been using Homebrew Cask since the days when @phinze ran the show, and they may have an old tap lying around causing bugs. The suggestion is still relevant to those users.

jawshooah on 14 Aug 2016

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@jawshooah oh, ok, makes sense. Thing is, that it confused me and I started looking for this tap, ended up tapping it :-)

sanyer on 14 Aug 2016

Fixed in https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/pull/23782.

reitermarkus on 15 Aug 2016

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Same error still after updated with merge from https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/pull/23782. Were there some changes made that might cause errors for previously installed older casks, that might not occur for outdated casks installed following this merge?

wickles on 15 Aug 2016

@wickles, what cask(s) exactly is this happening with?

reitermarkus on 15 Aug 2016

All outdated casks that I've tried.

brew cask info calibre

alex@Alex-MBA-2013:~$ brew cask info calibre
calibre: 2.64.0
https://calibre-ebook.com/
Error: No such file or directory - /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/calibre/2.56.0
  Most likely, this means you have an outdated version of Homebrew-Cask. Please run:

      brew uninstall --force brew-cask; brew untap phinze/cask; brew untap caskroom/cask; brew update; brew cleanup; brew cask cleanup

  If this doesn’t fix the problem, please report this bug:

      https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask#reporting-bugs

/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:50:in `lstat'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:50:in `lstat'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:50:in `compute_disk_usage'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/pathname.rb:21:in `abv'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:35:in `block in installation_info'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:33:in `each'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:33:in `installation_info'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:20:in `info'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:9:in `block in run'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:5:in `each'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli/info.rb:5:in `run'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli.rb:108:in `run_command'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib/hbc/cli.rb:146:in `process'
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/cmd/brew-cask.rb:23:in `<top (required)>'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:22:in `require?'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:93:in `<main>'

brew doctor

alex@Alex-MBA-2013:~$ 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 and just ignore them. Thanks!

Warning: Some directories in /usr/local/share/man aren't writable.
This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed
by Homebrew. If a brew tries to add locale information to one of these
directories, then the install will fail during the link step.

You should `sudo chown -R $(whoami)` them:
    /usr/local/share/man/de
    /usr/local/share/man/de/man1

Warning: Anaconda is known to frequently break Homebrew builds, including Vim and
MacVim, due to bundling many duplicates of system and Homebrew-available
tools.

If you encounter a build failure please temporarily remove Anaconda
from your $PATH and attempt the build again prior to reporting the
failure to us. Thanks!

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 what 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:
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/curl-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/freetype-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/libdynd-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/libpng-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/libpng16-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/python-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/python2-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/python2.7-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/xml2-config
    /Users/alex/anaconda/bin/xslt-config
    /opt/local/bin/apr-1-config
    /opt/local/bin/apu-1-config
    /opt/local/bin/curl-config
    /opt/local/bin/freetype-config
    /opt/local/bin/gdlib-config
    /opt/local/bin/gsl-config
    /opt/local/bin/gts-config
    /opt/local/bin/jemalloc-config
    /opt/local/bin/krb5-config
    /opt/local/bin/libpng-config
    /opt/local/bin/libpng16-config
    /opt/local/bin/Magick++-config
    /opt/local/bin/Magick-config
    /opt/local/bin/MagickCore-config
    /opt/local/bin/MagickWand-config
    /opt/local/bin/ncurses6-config
    /opt/local/bin/ncursesw6-config
    /opt/local/bin/netpbm-config
    /opt/local/bin/pcap-config
    /opt/local/bin/pcre-config
    /opt/local/bin/pkg-config
    /opt/local/bin/python-config
    /opt/local/bin/python2.7-config
    /opt/local/bin/python3.5-config
    /opt/local/bin/python3.5m-config
    /opt/local/bin/root-config
    /opt/local/bin/sdl-config
    /opt/local/bin/Wand-config
    /opt/local/bin/xml2-config
    /opt/local/bin/xslt-config
    /usr/local/pspdev/bin/psp-config

Warning: Python is installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

Homebrew only supports building against the System-provided Python or a
brewed Python. In particular, Pythons installed to /Library can interfere
with other software installs.

Warning: You have MacPorts or Fink installed:
  /opt/local/bin/port

This can cause trouble. You don't have to uninstall them, but you may want to
temporarily move them out of the way, e.g.

  sudo mv /opt/local ~/macports

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
    /usr/local/lib/libusb-0.1.4.dylib

Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected header files:
    /usr/local/include/usb.h

Warning: Unbrewed .la files were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .la files:
    /usr/local/lib/libusb.la

Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .pc files:
    /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libusb.pc

Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected static libraries:
    /usr/local/lib/libusb.a

Warning: Homebrew's sbin was not found in your PATH but you have installed
formulae that put executables in /usr/local/sbin.
Consider setting the PATH for example like so
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

Warning: You have a non-Homebrew 'pkg-config' in your PATH:
  /opt/local/bin/pkg-config

`./configure` may have problems finding brew-installed packages using
this other pkg-config.

Warning: Broken symlinks were found. Remove them with `brew prune`:
    /usr/local/bin/unoinfo

Warning: Some installed formula are missing dependencies.
You should `brew install` the missing dependencies:
  brew install libusb libusb-compat

Run `brew missing` for more details.

brew cask doctor

alex@Alex-MBA-2013:~$ brew cask doctor
==> macOS Release:
10.11.6
==> Hardware Architecture:
intel-64
==> Ruby Version:
2.0.0-p648
==> Ruby Path:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby
==> Homebrew Version:
Homebrew 0.9.9 (git revision 4309; last commit 2016-08-14)
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision c4eb4; last commit 2016-08-14)
==> Homebrew Executable Path:
/usr/local/bin/brew
==> Homebrew Cellar Path:
/usr/local/Cellar
==> Homebrew Repository Path:
/usr/local
==> Homebrew Origin:
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git
==> Homebrew-Cask Version:
0.60.0 (git revision f2ba; last commit 31 minutes ago)
==> Homebrew-Cask Install Location:
<NONE>
==> Homebrew-Cask Staging Location:
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom
==> Homebrew-Cask Cached Downloads:
/Users/alex/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask
2 files, 10M (warning: run "brew cask cleanup")
==> Homebrew-Cask Default Tap Path:
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask
==> Homebrew-Cask Alternate Cask Taps:
<NONE>
==> Homebrew-Cask Default Tap Cask Count:
3259
==> Contents of $LOAD_PATH:
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/lib
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin15
/Library/Ruby/Site/2.0.0/universal-darwin15
/Library/Ruby/Site
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin15
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.0.0/universal-darwin15
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/x86_64-darwin15
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/universal-darwin15
==> Contents of $RUBYLIB Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $RUBYOPT Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $RUBYPATH Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $RBENV_VERSION Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $CHRUBY_VERSION Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $GEM_HOME Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $GEM_PATH Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $BUNDLE_PATH Environment Variable:
<NONE>
==> Contents of $PATH Environment Variable:
PATH="/Users/alex/anaconda/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/Commands:/Library/TeX/texbin:/usr/local/pspdev/bin:/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/cmd:/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/shims/scm"
==> Contents of $SHELL Environment Variable:
SHELL="/opt/local/bin/bash"
==> Contents of Locale Environment Variables:
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
==> Running As Privileged User:
No

wickles on 15 Aug 2016

Note that I do have the deprecated Caskroom path:

==> Homebrew-Cask Staging Location:
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom

Maybe that's causing problems?

wickles on 15 Aug 2016

Is it working for current casks? If it is, the Caskroom path is unlikely to be the issue.

reitermarkus on 15 Aug 2016

Yes. brew cask info works for casks that I do not have installed and for casks that were previously installed but up to date.

wickles on 15 Aug 2016

That's more a lack of fault tolerance than an actual bug. The new info lists all prior versions you've got installed; it derives these from the hidden 'metadata' folder. You appear to have deleted the cask version folders but retained their corresponding metadata entries. Try running cd /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/calibre; ls .metadata | xargs mkdir and then brew cask info calibre again.

wfdd on 15 Aug 2016

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@wfdd, that was also the only thing I could think of, as there are some casks that move the entire versioned staged_path as a suite (e. g. displaycal).

reitermarkus on 15 Aug 2016

Both brew cask info displaycal and brew cask uninstall displaycal fail after installation, so this should be treated as a bug then.

wfdd on 15 Aug 2016

@wfdd, brew cask uninstall displaycal is working for me, so this might be a separate issue.

reitermarkus on 15 Aug 2016

I experienced this issue with casks I had previously installed and updated. I had deleted the prior version folder under /usr/local/Caskroom/(cask)/(old-version) but not the corresponding version folder in .metadata (/usr/local/Caskroom/(cask)/.metadata/(old-version)). Once I also deleted the prior version folder in .metadata everything is working as expected.

ghuff07 on 15 Aug 2016

Ok, info works appropriately now since https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/pull/23808. FWIW I was using just brew cask install --force to upgrade outdated casks, which I was under the impression was a suggested approach.

Also, this change breaks my cask-outdated alias:

alias cask-outdated='brew cask list | xargs brew cask info | grep -i -B 3 '\''Not installed'\'''

Is there a new suggested way to check for outdated casks?

wickles on 15 Aug 2016

There is not yet an officially supported way to check for outdated Casks or to upgrade Casks.

Speaking as a user and _not_ as a maintainer, however, check out brew-cask-upgrade.

jawshooah on 15 Aug 2016

Well, uninstall should be working now for old versions. So I would suggest

brew cask uninstall {{cask}}
brew cask install {{cask}}

to upgrade, instead of brew cask install --force.

reitermarkus on 15 Aug 2016

Would it make sense to add a line to info to show when a cask is installed but not current? Analogously to Not installed. For example:

mono-mdk: 4.4.2.11
http://mono-project.com/
Not up-to-date
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/mono-mdk/4.2.1.102 (does not exist)
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/mono-mdk/4.4.0.142 (295.0M)
/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/mono-mdk/4.4.1.0 (302.6M)
From: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/mono-mdk.rb
==> Name
Mono
==> Artifacts
MonoFramework-MDK-4.4.2.11.macos10.xamarin.universal.pkg (pkg)

wickles on 15 Aug 2016

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