ArgumentError installing nerves_bootstrap

Hi @tobytripp,

I think this is the first time we’ve seen this error. I just tried reproducing the error on an M1 Mac w/ Elixir 1.15.1 and Erlang 26.0.2 and couldn’t.

Could you give more details on your setup? How did you install Elixir and are there other archives installed? (run mix archive to get the installed archive list)

I installed elixir with asdf as described in the Nerves installation page. It’s a fresh install of elixir, so there are no other–aside from hex–archives installed.

So, I blitzed my asdf dir and started over. Now I get a different error:

$ mix archive.install hex nerves_bootstrap

Resolving Hex dependencies…
Resolution completed in 0.018s
New:
nerves_bootstrap 1.11.5

• Getting nerves_bootstrap (Hex package)
  All dependencies are up to date
  Compiling 12 files (.ex)
  ** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in Mix.Tasks.Local.Nerves.info/1

  The following arguments were given to Mix.Tasks.Local.Nerves.info/1:

    # 1
    :exports_md5
  

  Mix.Tasks.Local.Nerves.info/1
  (mix 1.15.1) lib/mix/compilers/elixir.ex:1015: Mix.Compilers.Elixir.compiler_loop/4
  (mix 1.15.1) lib/mix/compilers/elixir.ex:168: Mix.Compilers.Elixir.compile/7
  (mix 1.15.1) lib/mix/state.ex:15: Mix.State.lock/2
  (mix 1.15.1) lib/mix/task.ex:447: anonymous fn/3 in Mix.Task.run_task/5
  (mix 1.15.1) lib/mix/task.ex:502: Mix.Task.run_alias/6
  (mix 1.15.1) lib/mix/tasks/compile.all.ex:124: Mix.Tasks.Compile.All.run_compiler/2
  (mix 1.15.1) lib/mix/tasks/compile.all.ex:104: Mix.Tasks.Compile.All.compile/4

Even more puzzling, if I run it again, I get a third error:

$ mix archive.install hex nerves_bootstrap

Resolving Hex dependencies…
Resolution completed in 0.019s
New:
nerves_bootstrap 1.11.5

• Getting nerves_bootstrap (Hex package)
  All dependencies are up to date
  Compiling 12 files (.ex)

== Compilation error in file lib/attic/deps.get.ex ==
** (ArgumentError) could not call Module.put_attribute/3 because the module Mix.Nerves.IO is already compiled
(elixir 1.15.1) lib/module.ex:2310: Module.assert_not_readonly!/2
(elixir 1.15.1) lib/module.ex:2007: Module.put_attribute/5
lib/attic/deps.get.ex:2: (module)

Could you check if Erlang was built with SSL?

$ iex
Erlang/OTP 26 [erts-14.0.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [jit]

Interactive Elixir (1.15.1) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> Application.ensure_all_started(:ssl)
{:ok, [:crypto, :asn1, :public_key, :ssl]}

If you don’t get what I got, you’ll need to brew install openssl and reinstall Erlang. There might be something else that’s helpful at GitHub - asdf-vm/asdf-erlang: Erlang plugin for asdf version manager · GitHub.

I’m really grasping, though. If you could copy all output starting from installing asdf, Erlang, and Elixir and finally the mix install hex nerves_bootstrap line, perhaps there’s a warning buried in there.

I get:

$ iex
Erlang/OTP 26 [erts-14.0.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:10:10] [ds:10:10:10] [async-threads:1] [jit:ns]

Interactive Elixir (1.15.1) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> Application.ensure_all_started(:ssl)
{:ok, [:crypto, :asn1, :public_key, :ssl]}

I’ll dig up the installation output momentarily.

Installation output:

$ asdf install erlang 26.0.2
Downloading kerl…
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 85117 100 85117 0 0 340k 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 344k
asdf_26.0.2 is not a kerl-managed Erlang/OTP installation
No build named asdf_26.0.2
Downloading 26.0.2 to /Users/toby/.asdf/downloads/erlang/26.0.2…
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:–:-- --:–:-- --:–:-- 0
100 102M 100 102M 0 0 10.3M 0 0:00:09 0:00:09 --:–:-- 11.1M
Extracting source code
Building Erlang/OTP 26.0.2 (asdf_26.0.2), please wait…
DOCUMENTATION INFORMATION (See: /Users/toby/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_26.0.2/otp_build_26.0.2.log)

• documentation :

•              fop is missing.
  

•              Using fakefop to generate placeholder PDF files.
  

Erlang/OTP 26.0.2 (asdf_26.0.2) has been successfully built
Cleaning up compilation products for 26.0.2
Cleaned up compilation products for 26.0.2 under /Users/toby/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds

$ asdf install elixir 1.15.1-otp-26
==> Checking whether specified Elixir release exists…
==> Downloading 1.15.1-otp-26 to /Users/toby/.asdf/downloads/elixir/1.15.1-otp-26/elixir-precompiled-1.15.1-otp-26.zip
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 6641k 100 6641k 0 0 5945k 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:–:-- 5972k
==> Copying release into place

Can you run echo $KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS and brew info openssl

Also, is Elixir 1.15.1 a hard requirement? Are you able to try 1.15.4?

$ echo $KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS

$ brew info openssl
==> openssl@3: stable 3.1.2 (bottled)
Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
https://openssl.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/openssl@3/3.1.2 (6,495 files, 30.0MB) *
  Poured from bottle on 2023-08-12 at 12:39:26
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/openssl@3.rb
License: Apache-2.0
==> Dependencies
Required: ca-certificates ✔
==> Caveats
A CA file has been bootstrapped using certificates from the system
keychain. To add additional certificates, place .pem files in
  /usr/local/etc/openssl@3/certs

and run
  /usr/local/opt/openssl@3/bin/c_rehash
==> Analytics
install: 419,609 (30 days), 945,723 (90 days), 1,199,741 (365 days)
install-on-request: 42,295 (30 days), 196,058 (90 days), 264,268 (365 days)
build-error: 1,658 (30 days)

I’ll try 1.15.4

mix archive.install hex nerves_bootstrap

* creating /Users/toby/.asdf/installs/elixir/1.15.4-otp-26/.mix/archives/hex-2.0.6
Resolving Hex dependencies...
Resolution completed in 0.018s
New:
  nerves_bootstrap 1.11.5
* Getting nerves_bootstrap (Hex package)
All dependencies are up to date
Compiling 12 files (.ex)

== Compilation error in file lib/mix/tasks/nerves/local.ex ==
** (ArgumentError) could not call Module.put_attribute/3 because the module Nerves.Bootstrap.MixProject is already compiled
    (elixir 1.15.4) lib/module.ex:2310: Module.assert_not_readonly!/2
    (elixir 1.15.4) lib/module.ex:2007: Module.__put_attribute__/5
    lib/mix/tasks/nerves/local.ex:2: (module)

What directory are you in when running mix archive.install hex nerves_bootstrap?

Can you also try building Erlang with OpenSSL 1.1

brew install openssl@1.1
KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--disable-debug --without-javac --with-ssl=$(brew --prefix openssl@1.1)" asdf install Erlang 26.0.2