julia-0.3.0-prerelease-a9da7b4-win32 : fails on WinXPSP3

[stanpetit]

Console closes :

• after about 1/3 of the time it would take to load completely
• without any error message
• with a process in limbo
  Are you testing the builds yourself before to submit ?

[stevengj]

We don't regularly test on Windows XP; I'm not too surprised that there are problems on such an ancient operating system.

Does the Julia command-line interface work?

Or is it just the notebook that is not loading? Does the IPython notebook run?

[stanpetit]

Hi. My English may be bad, sorry.
The shell console closes, still empty, after "the while" I mentionned.
EDIT : I wont give you the duration it takes precisely : my "good" machine burnt some times ago, I am broke, so I'm back to my old AMD Sempron 789Mhz, 1Go ... time is relative, isn't it ?
But I am surprised that the core dlls that Julia calls can be that different as windows is still NTxxx versionning and just gets unsupported this year. What about the Vista behavior ?

[tkelman]

@stanpetit are you actually trying to use IJulia here? IJulia is the Julia plugin for the IPython notebook interface.

@stevengj See the linked Julia issue, there seems to be some kind of unicode corruption in the parser from the new operators that were added last month. Command-line/REPL Julia was working on XP until that change.

[stanpetit]

@tkelman NO, Julia from the Windows console. Did I talk about IJulia ?

[tkelman]

You opened this issue in the IJulia repository

[stanpetit]

@tkelman I am very sorry for the mistake, not used to the environment. I will take care.

[tkelman]

It's quite alright, no harm done.

[stanpetit]

In fact at I was also setting up the IJulia pkg, having Nettle and LibCURL build errors.
Trying to figure it out, I decided to delete ~.julia and do the job step by step.
When I came up to building LibCURL, it seemed very weird that :

• in ~.julia\v0.3\LibCURL\deps\build.jl , WinRPM is the tool to fetch dependency "libcurl-4",
• and if I try to build WinRPM alone :
  julia> Pkg.build("WinRPM") I get :
  INFO: Building LibCURL from the console...with LibCURL expecting WinRPM.

I am getting nuts with that circular stuff ... and need an explanation, please :)

[tkelman]

WinRPM shouldn't need Pkg.build since it has no binary dependencies. WinRPM is used by some other packages, like LibCURL, to download their binary dependencies. I have seen the INFO: Building LibCURL message popping up more than it should be (and I think it's my fault as I was the one to turn that functionality on a few months ago), but I think it should be harmless. If you do Pkg.build("LibCURL") then it should use WinRPM to download the libcurl-4 dll. You might need to do WinRPM.update(), especially if the messages suggest to do so.

[stanpetit]

Ok, thanks a lot ! ( I had noticed the dummy file ".gitignore" in ~.julia\v0.3\WinRPM\deps, that makes sense. But I am a bit curious...)
What about the console output : WARNING: received error 0 while downloading http://dowl... when updating WinRPM ?

[tkelman]

I'm not so sure what that one is, but I've seen it too. It might just be an unreliable internet connection, try re-running the commands multiple times until they succeed (annoying, I know, sorry). And maybe open an issue in WinRPM.jl about it?

[stanpetit]

OK thanks, see You :)

[stonebig]

Hello,

I'm having the same issue as stanpetit today
when Itry Pkg.add("IJulia)" i get a
INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win3
2/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/ac7663e4e7ed370b3f61b58b0f35a38dd9aace1ab732f0697dc
ff9c0271164a4-primary.xml.gz
WARNING: received error 0 while downloading http://download.opensuse.org/reposit
ories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/ac7663e4e7ed370b3f61b58b0
f35a38dd9aace1ab732f0697dcff9c0271164a4-primary.xml.gz
INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win6
4/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/repomd.xml
INFO: Downloading http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win6
4/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/9c5585a68a35b10bac3fdab5c9faed7995e15567fd73982f689
2dd6bc28a7272-primary.xml.gz
WARNING: received error 0 while downloading http://download.opensuse.org/reposit
ories/windows:/mingw:/win64/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/9c5585a68a35b10bac3fdab5c
9faed7995e15567fd73982f6892dd6bc28a7272-primary.xml.gz
===============================[ ERROR: LibCURL ]===============================

None of the selected providers can install dependency libcurl-4
while loading D:\result_tests\WinPython-32bit-3.4.1.1_build01\settings.julia\v0
.3\LibCURL\deps\build.jl, in expression starting on line 13

(on Ijulia 0.3 pre of today)
Is it because I installed a julia 32 bit on a Windows 64 ?

[tkelman]

@stonebig hm this looks interesting, give it a try: JuliaPackaging/WinRPM.jl#27 (comment)

32 bit Julia should work fine on 64 bit Windows.

[stonebig]

it doesn't seems to resolve the issue (If I applied the suggestion right)
julia> Pkg.add("IJulia")
INFO: Installing IJulia v0.1.12
INFO: Installing JSON v0.3.7
INFO: Installing REPLCompletions v0.0.1
INFO: Installing ZMQ v0.1.12
INFO: Building LibCURL
INFO: Updating WinRPM package list
INFO: Downloading http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/windows:/mingw:/
win32/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/repomd.xml
INFO: Downloading http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/windows:/mingw:/
win32/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/ac7663e4e7ed370b3f61b58b0f35a38dd9aace1ab732f06
97dcff9c0271164a4-primary.xml.gz
WARNING: encounted invalid data while parsing repomd
===============================[ ERROR: LibCURL ]===============================

opening file D:\result_tests\WinPython-32bit-3.4.1.1_build01\settings.julia\v0.
3\WinRPM\cache\http%3a%2f%2fftp5.gwdg.de%2fpub%2fopensuse%2frepositories%2fwindo
ws%3a%2fmingw%3a%2fwin32%2fopenSUSE_Factory%2f\repodata%2fac7663e4e7ed370b3f61b5
8b0f35a38dd9aace1ab732f0697dcff9c0271164a4-primary.xml: No such file or director
y
while loading D:\result_tests\WinPython-32bit-3.4.1.1_build01\settings.julia\v0
.3\LibCURL\deps\build.jl, in expression starting on line 13

INFO: Building Nettle
INFO: Updating WinRPM package list
INFO: Downloading http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/windows:/mingw:/
win32/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/repomd.xml
INFO: Downloading http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/windows:/mingw:/
win32/openSUSE_Factory//repodata/ac7663e4e7ed370b3f61b58b0f35a38dd9aace1ab732f06
97dcff9c0271164a4-primary.xml.gz
WARNING: encounted invalid data while parsing repomd
===============================[ ERROR: Nettle ]================================

opening file D:\result_tests\WinPython-32bit-3.4.1.1_build01\settings.julia\v0.
3\WinRPM\cache\http%3a%2f%2fftp5.gwdg.de%2fpub%2fopensuse%2frepositories%2fwindo
ws%3a%2fmingw%3a%2fwin32%2fopenSUSE_Factory%2f\repodata%2fac7663e4e7ed370b3f61b5
8b0f35a38dd9aace1ab732f0697dcff9c0271164a4-primary.xml: No such file or director
y
while loading D:\result_tests\WinPython-32bit-3.4.1.1_build01\settings.julia\v0
.3\Nettle\deps\build.jl, in expression starting on line 35

INFO: Building ZMQ
INFO: Building IJulia
Found IPython version 2.1.0 ... ok.
Creating julia profile in IPython...
(Existing KernelManager.kernel_cmd setting in ipython_config.py is untouched.)
(Existing IPythonWidget.execute_on_complete_input setting in ipython_qtconsole_c
onfig.py is untouched.)
(Existing FrontendWidget.lexer_class setting in ipython_qtconsole_config.py is u
ntouched.)
(Existing NotebookApp.port setting in ipython_notebook_config.py is untouched.)
(Existing ipynblogo.png file untouched.)
(Existing ipynblogo.svg file untouched.)
(Existing favicon.ico file untouched.)
(Existing custom.js file untouched.)
(Existing julia.js file untouched.)

================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]================================

WARNING: Nettle and LibCURL had build errors.

• packages with build errors remain installed in D:\result_tests\WinPython-32bi
  t-3.4.1.1_build01\settings.julia\v0.3
• build a package and all its dependencies with Pkg.build(pkg)
• build a single package by running its deps/build.jl script

INFO: Package database updated

julia>

[stonebig]

Probably I'm trying that too early in Julia development. will try again when Julia 0.3 official will be released.
(maybe this issue should not be closed, yet)

[stevengj]

It sounds like this issue should be filed with WinRPM (or Nettle?). IJulia itself is not the problem here.

[stonebig]

With v"0.1.0" of WinRPM + the whole procedure described at JuliaPackaging/WinRPM.jl#27 (comment)

• Ijulia is now basically ok under windows 7 64 bit / Ipython2.1.0 / Python 3.4 32bits (with winpython, so that it should work like an "usb" installation ),
• the "integrated" example with "pyplot" works.

It's awesome !
The suse mirror "not all updated" is the small cloud over this bright piece of work