default install msys fails with "missing database"

[stephe-ada-guru]

I just installed Alire 1.2.1 on a virgin PC (Windows 11, no previous gnat or msys install). The Alire installer ran fine, and clicking the icon opened a PowerShell window.

I typed "alr get emacs_ada_mode". It prompted about installing msys; I said yes.

That failed partway thru, something about a missing database. Running the same command again did not fix it. I managed to fix the problem by starting an mingw64 window and installing git (and later make).

I suspect the problem is that some path is not updated after the first part of the msys install; it's trying to run msys update and failing.

Then tried "alr get emacs_ada_mode" again; it failed because no toolchain was selected. So I did "alr toolchain --select", accepted the defaults; it deployed gnat 22.1 and gprbuild 22.1.

Then "alr get emacs_ada_mode" succeeded. The build failed on missing "make"; installing that via the mingw64 window fixed that. Then emacs_ada_mode built.

[Fabien-Chouteau]

It probably means that we have to update the msys2 installer.
Can you try again with the procedure below procedure?

• First, set the new installer in config:

$ alr config --global --set msys2.installer "msys2-x86_64-20221216.exe"
$ alr config --global --set msys2.installer_url "https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2022-12-16/msys2-x86_64-20221216.exe"

• Second, remove the installed msys2, it should be somewhere in "C:/Users//.cache/alire/msys64"

• Third, run Alire again (e.g. alr get emacs_ada_mode) and answer yes to the installation question.

[stephe-ada-guru]

I think it got farther, but still fails. attached is a log of the install. i dont have emacs on this machine, so it is not edited -- skip the first few commands
Alireinstall msys.txt

[pjljvandelaar]

Same problem with my github actions

[44533] \x1B[H\x1B[2J\x1B[3J\n\n###################################################################\n#                                                                 #\n#                                                                 #\n#                   C   A   U   T   I   O   N                     #\n#                                                                 #\n#                  This is first start of MSYS2.                  #\n#       You MUST restart shell to apply necessary actions.        #\n#                                                                 #\n#                                                                 #\n###################################################################\n\n\n\x1B[H\x1B[2J\x1B[3J
[44534] Done
[44539] Writing maintenance tool: "C:/Users/runneradmin/.cache/alire/msys64/uninstall.exe.new"
[44539] Writing maintenance tool.
[44609] Wrote permissions for maintenance tool.
[44709] Maintenance tool hard restart: false.
[44720] Installation finished!
[44720] Components installed successfully.
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 mingw32 downloading...
 mingw64 downloading...
 ucrt64 downloading...
 clang32 downloading...
 clang64 downloading...
 msys downloading...
:: Starting core system upgrade...
warning: resolving dependencies...
terminate other MSYS2 programs before proceeding
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (6) bash-5.2.009-1  filesystem-2022.01-7  mintty-1~3.6.3-1  msys2-runtime-3.4.3-4  pacman-6.0.1-28  pacman-mirrors-20221016-1

Total Download Size:   11.64 MiB
Total Installed Size:  56.88 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      -0.12 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 pacman-6.0.1-28-x86_64 downloading...
 msys2-runtime-3.4.3-4-x86_64 downloading...
 bash-5.2.009-1-x86_64 downloading...
 mintty-1~3.6.3-1-x86_64 downloading...
 filesystem-2022.01-7-x86_64 downloading...
 pacman-mirrors-20221016-1-any downloading...
checking keyring...
checking package integrity...
loading package files...
checking for file conflicts...
checking available disk space...
:: Processing package changes...
upgrading bash...
upgrading filesystem...
upgrading mintty...
upgrading msys2-runtime...
upgrading pacman-mirrors...
upgrading pacman...
:: To complete this update all MSYS2 processes including this terminal will be closed. Confirm to proceed [Y/n] 
warning: database file for 'clangarm64' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
:: Starting core system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)

raised ALIRE.CHECKED_ERROR : alire-stored-error:1
[D:\a\Rejuvenation-Ada\Rejuvenation-Ada\alire_install\bin\alr.exe]
0xdc8cdb Semantic_Versioning.Basic.At_Least at alire.adb:251
0xa63c02 Semantic_Versioning.Basic.At_Least at alire-os_lib-subprocess.adb:110
0xa6d7d1 Semantic_Versioning.Basic.At_Least at alire-platforms-current__windows.adb:326
0xa6f6a3 Semantic_Versioning.Basic.At_Least at alire-platforms-current__windows.adb:374
0xa6fbb7 Semantic_Versioning.Basic.At_Least at alire-platforms-current__windows.adb:396
0x403f25 Adainit at b__alr-main.adb:1848
0x404bd1 Main at b__alr-main.adb:2129
0x401423 __tmainCRTStartup at ???
0x40113b mainCRTStartup at ???
[C:\Windows\System32\KERNEL32.DLL]
0x7fffbbfe4dde
[C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll]
0x7fffbccfe409
ERROR: Command ["pacman", "--noconfirm", "-Su"] exited with code 1
ERROR: alr encountered an unexpected error, re-run with -d for details.
Error: The process 'D:\a\Rejuvenation-Ada\Rejuvenation-Ada\alire_install\bin\alr.exe' failed with exit code 1
    at ExecState._setResult (D:\a\_actions\alire-project\setup-alire\v1\node_modules\@actions\exec\lib\toolrunner.js:592:25)
    at ExecState.CheckComplete (D:\a\_actions\alire-project\setup-alire\v1\node_modules\@actions\exec\lib\toolrunner.js:575:18)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (D:\a\_actions\alire-project\setup-alire\v1\node_modules\@actions\exec\lib\toolrunner.js:469:27)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:314:20)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1022:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:287:5)
Error: The process 'D:\a\Rejuvenation-Ada\Rejuvenation-Ada\alire_install\bin\alr.exe' failed with exit code 1

See my latest commit for more info.

[mosteo]

Fixed in #1284