1881710 - Unable to Bootstrap Firefox on macOS ARM

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Build System :: Bootstrap Configuration, defect, P5)

Description

[arm.risc42.dev]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.2.1 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

I have followed the path to build Firefox on macOS from https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/macos_build.html by installing Mercurial and then Bootstrapping to install Firefox. But by using this command in a zsh terminal (in sudo or not) curl https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/default/python/mozboot/bin/bootstrap.py -O
python3 bootstrap.py, it crashes. I have macOS Ventura on an M1 Mac, with Python 3.9 and pip up to date.

Actual results:

The installation process crashes by saying that :

                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 15058  100 15058    0     0   3949      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:--  3949
Could not bootstrap Firefox! Consider filing a bug.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/<user_folder>/bootstrap.py", line 439, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "/Users/<user_folder>/bootstrap.py", line 406, in main
    srcdir = clone(options)
  File "/Users/<user_folder>/bootstrap.py", line 311, in clone
    hg = which("hg")
  File "/Users/<user_folder>/bootstrap.py", line 60, in which
    if test.is_file() and os.access(test, os.X_OK):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/pathlib.py", line 1456, in is_file
    return S_ISREG(self.stat().st_mode)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/pathlib.py", line 1232, in stat
    return self._accessor.stat(self)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin/hg'```



Expected results:

The Firefox package should have been downloaded

Comment 1

[Alex Hochheiden [:ahochheiden]]

Odd, does running hg version work fine?

What's the output of ls -l /usr/local/bin/hg? (Does that work fine, or do you need sudo ls -l /usr/local/bin/hg?)

If it doesn't look like you have access, can you try chmod u+rw /usr/local/bin/hg and re-try bootstrapping?

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

A needinfo is requested from the reporter, however, the reporter is inactive on Bugzilla. Given that the bug is still UNCONFIRMED, closing the bug as incomplete.

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