Volta: Notion internal error occurs for all installs

[jhford]

I just used the installer from the website to install notion on my system. When I try to run node (notion install node 11/ notion install node 11.7.0) I get:

$ notion -v install node 11.7.0
error: an internal error occurred

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but we'd love to hear about them so we can fix them!

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I did once briefly see (<1sec) a downloading progress indicator. I'm not seeing any useful information in the output. I ran the program under strace, and it looks like notion is not finding something it expects.

<snip>
write(2, "install: ", 9install: )                = 9
write(2, "cannot stat 'node'", 18cannot stat 'node')      = 18
<snip>
write(2, ": No such file or directory", 27: No such file or directory) = 27
write(2, "\n", 1
)  
lseek(0, 0, SEEK_CUR)                   = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
<snip>

I couldn't find useful logs in ~/.notion and the --verbose option didn't add any useful information. This is a Fedora 29 system with SELinux disabled.

[dschmidt]

What does find "${NOTION_HOME}/tools/image/" -maxdepth 4 look like?

I had a bunch of similar issues when my installations had failed before https://github.com/notion-cli/notion/pull/257 was merged. It might be neccesary to wipe ${NOTION_HOME} because the failing installations left NOTION_HOME in an invalid state.

[jhford]

So I installed this on a clean Fedora 29 VM and this is my installation output:

localhost:~ $ curl -sSLf https://get.notionjs.com | bash
    Fetching Linux installer
    Creating notion directory tree (/home/jhford/.notion)
   Unpacking notion executable and shims
     Editing user profile
    Finished installation. Open a new terminal to start using notion!

Running the command from your comment resulted in:

localhost:~ $ find "${NOTION_HOME}/tools/image/" -maxdepth 4
find: ‘/home/jhford/.notion/tools/image/’: No such file or directory
localhost:~ $ 

[jhford]

Also, when I try to build notion from source, I get the following error:

error: failed to run custom build command for `openssl-sys v0.9.24`
process didn't exit successfully: `/home/jhford/software/notion/target/debug/build/openssl-sys-d9488c5a6579f32d/build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
--- stdout
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_LIB_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_LIB_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_GNU_OPENSSL_DIR
cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=OPENSSL_DIR
cargo:rustc-link-lib=ssl
cargo:rustc-link-lib=crypto
OPT_LEVEL = Some("0")
TARGET = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
HOST = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
TARGET = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
TARGET = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
HOST = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
CC_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu = None
CC_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu = None
HOST_CC = None
CC = None
HOST = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
TARGET = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
HOST = Some("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
CFLAGS_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu = None
CFLAGS_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu = None
HOST_CFLAGS = None
CFLAGS = None
DEBUG = Some("true")
running: "cc" "-O0" "-ffunction-sections" "-fdata-sections" "-fPIC" "-g" "-m64" "-Wall" "-Wextra" "-E" "/home/jhford/software/notion/target/debug/build/openssl-sys-1782adac4af95019/out/expando.c"
exit code: 0
cargo:rustc-cfg=osslconf="OPENSSL_NO_EC2M"
cargo:conf=OPENSSL_NO_EC2M

--- stderr
thread 'main' panicked at '

This crate is only compatible with OpenSSL 1.0.1, 1.0.2, and 1.1.0, or LibreSSL
2.5 and 2.6.0, but a different version of OpenSSL was found. The build is now
aborting due to this version mismatch.

', /home/jhford/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/openssl-sys-0.9.24/build.rs:486:9
note: Run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` for a backtrace.

I'm just putting this here in the interest of being thorough, I know that if I wanted to build I'd need to build my own OpenSSL 1.1.0 or similar, but I don't have the time for that right now.

[dherman]

Hi @jhford! Thanks for this report. I've just merged #267 which may have fixed this issue: it adds support for OpenSSL 1.1.1. I'll be spinning a release very soon and I'll let you know when it's available if you'd like to try again. Thanks so much for the investigating you've done!

[dherman]

Oh hm, maybe that's not the core issue you're running into.

Could you try two things for me?

1. Do a clean install of notion, and then run RUST_BACKTRACE=full NOTION_DEV=1 notion -v install node 11.7.0 and share the output here
2. Afterwards, share the output of find "${NOTION_HOME}/tools/image/" -maxdepth 4 as @dschmidt suggested, but specifically after your failed installation occurred.

(If the output of either command is big, you can put it in a gist or use a <details> tag to hide it by default.)

Thanks again! :D

[jhford]

hey @dherman, hope all is well with you!

I just did the fresh installation of the new release and now am able to install node and yarn correctly, as well as building from master branch on my machine. I guess that's the problem resolved. I'm not sure how to install the old version to try to reproduce, but it's working now so probably not important.