Homebrew-cask: xquartz cask is broken

Created on 16 Dec 2014 · 13Comments · Source: Homebrew/homebrew-cask

The following is the output of $ brew cask install xquartz

==> installer: Package name is XQuartz 2.7.7
==> installer: Installing at base path /
==> installer: The install was successful.
==> Sorry, try again.

The 'Sorry' message aside, the installation seems to have worked. However, when I

$ ssh -X <somewhere>
<enter password>
$ xeyes
Error: Can't open display: 
$

Not sure what the cause of this is.

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jasonhemann

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I thought I might kill some time today to work on the code behind phonegap-app-desktop and their installation instructions had me run a series of commands such as: brew cask install Caskroom/cask/xquartz

...which then failed the first time with "Error: Cask 'xquartz' definition is invalid: Bad header line: parse failed". I wouldn't call this a great error message but at least Google brought me here. So I then ran "brew uninstall --force brew-cask; brew update" and repeated the first command above. After entering my password it seemed to hang for more than five minutes so I eventually did a Ctrl-C. Tried to repeat the install command only to find that it thinks that I need to run a "--force" version this time, which I did. Again, it's taking longer then ten minutes.

Pointing at your README.md, all this is supposed to be easier than dragging the DMG file sideways, right?

So, reading the logs I see that the DMG for quartz is already downloaded so I use Finder to double-click it, then run the PKG to perform the standard installation. It just finished and all that came with a progress meter which advanced throughout the install so that I didn't lose confidence in the script or process.

Guys, I'd suggest a progress meter or spinning (- | / ) character for those of us who think by default that if our computer hasn't said anything in ten minutes then a script must therefore be broken.

OutsourcedGuru on 12 Feb 2016

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The Sorry, try again message means only you were wrong once in inputting the password. The delay is a known issue.

Installing xquartz manually does fix this, which means there’s probably something wrong in the way we’re installing it, and will have to fix it. Pinging @radeksimko since he’s the one who added the lines to make it work previously.

From what I can gather in my preliminary tests, it seems Yosemite is indeed the culprit (there are some posts about it). This line is the one that probably needs changing; on a fresh Yosemite VM, defaults read com.apple.applescript gives Domain com.apple.applescript does not exist, which means the line is having no effect.

vitorgalvao on 16 Dec 2014

Still broken due to other reasons:

sorins@oMac ~ $ brew cask install xquartz
==> Downloading https://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.7.dmg

curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chain
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
 of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default
 bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file
 using the --cacert option.
If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
 the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
 problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
 not match the domain name in the URL).
If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
 the -k (or --insecure) option.
Error: Download failed on Cask 'xquartz' with message: Download failed: https://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.7.dmg

Downloading with browser works, which makes me think that Curl default bundle is broken, which is again a problem.

sorins@oMac ~ $ 1which curl
/usr/bin/curl
sorins@oMac ~ $ brew install curl
Warning: curl-7.40.0 already installed
sorins@oMac ~ $ curl --version
curl 7.37.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.0) libcurl/7.37.1 SecureTransport zlib/1.2.5
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: AsynchDNS GSS-Negotiate IPv6 Largefile NTLM NTLM_WB SSL libz

ssbarnea on 2 Mar 2015

@ssbarnea Can’t reproduce. Likely temporary.

vitorgalvao on 3 Mar 2015

@vitorgalvao I agree, now it works so I guess it was a temporary issue. Thanks

BTW, I am using brew and cask more than usually now because I just switched to a new computer. For some reason it seems that the downloading is very slow, slower than my normal download experience. If you know any reason why curl could be considerably slower than the browser on downloading stuff let me know. Is weird because this is the first time when I encounter this and this is a new MBP, same network,...

ssbarnea on 3 Mar 2015

It may be something on your curl’s configuration (do you have a custom .curlrc)? Either way, please open a new issue. This is a different matter, and we shouldn’t be mixing them, as it makes it harder to keep track of everything.

vitorgalvao on 3 Mar 2015

Still broken I think. This is what I get:

arvindraghavan@Arvinds-MacBook-Pro:~$ brew cask install xquartz
Error: undefined method `cask' for main:Object
Please report this bug:
    https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues
/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/Casks/xquartz.rb:1: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/Cellar/brew-cask/0.35.0/rubylib/cask/source/path.rb:13:in `load'
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.35.0/rubylib/cask/source/tapped.rb:24:in `load'
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.35.0/rubylib/cask.rb:118:in `load'
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.35.0/rubylib/cask/cli/install.rb:9:in `block in run'
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.35.0/rubylib/cask/cli/install.rb:6:in `each'
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.35.0/rubylib/cask/cli/install.rb:6:in `run'
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.35.0/rubylib/cask/cli.rb:57:in `run_command'
/usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.35.0/rubylib/cask/cli.rb:72:in `process'
/usr/local/bin/brew-cask.rb:6: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/brew.rb:58:in `require?'
/usr/local/Library/brew.rb:141:in `<main>'

arvindraghavan on 18 Mar 2015

@arvindraghavan Your problem is unrelated: you’re using an old version of homebrew-cask. Please brew update && brew upgrade brew-cask && brew cleanup && brew cask cleanup and try again.

vitorgalvao on 18 Mar 2015

@vitorgalvao, thanks a lot! I did try to update cask first, but simply tried brew update, which doesn't update cask. I was able to install xquartz correctly.

arvindraghavan on 19 Mar 2015

Problem seems to be gone (you might need to restart to get xeyes working, though, so that should also fix other things). If that doesn’t work, please report back @jasonhemann.

vitorgalvao on 19 Mar 2015

Pointing at your README.md, all this is supposed to be easier than dragging the DMG file sideways, right?

Guys, I'd suggest a progress meter or spinning (- | / ) character for those of us who think by default that if our computer hasn't said anything in ten minutes then a script must therefore be broken.

OutsourcedGuru on 12 Feb 2016

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^This guy get's it. Progress indicator is sorely needed for this

dsifford on 5 Dec 2016

^ i just did the same thing. cancelled brew cask install twice and ended up installing via the dmg manually. can someone confirm it actually completes if you wait it out?

powerwlsl on 27 Dec 2017

$ brew cask fetch xquartz
==> Downloading external files for Cask xquartz
==> Downloading https://dl.bintray.com/xquartz/downloads/XQuartz-2.7.11.dmg
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Verifying checksum for Cask xquartz
==> Success! Downloaded to -> /Users/commitay/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/xquartz--2.7.11.dmg
$ time brew cask install --verbose xquartz
==> Satisfying dependencies
==> Downloading https://dl.bintray.com/xquartz/downloads/XQuartz-2.7.11.dmg
Already downloaded: /Users/commitay/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/xquartz--2.7.11.dmg
==> Verifying checksum for Cask xquartz
==> Installing Cask xquartz
==> Running installer for xquartz; your password may be necessary.
==> Package installers may write to any location; options such as --appdir are ignored.
Password:
==> installer: Package name is XQuartz 2.7.11
==> installer: Installing at base path /
==> installer:PHASE:Preparing for installation…
==> installer:PHASE:Preparing the disk…
==> installer:PHASE:Preparing XQuartz 2.7.11…
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==> installer:PHASE:The software was successfully installed.
==> installer: The install was successful.
🍺  xquartz was successfully installed!

real    2m52.458s
user    0m14.470s
sys 0m1.584s