1959550 - Perma bootstrap debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Bootstrap Configuration, defect)

Description

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

Push with failures

Failure log

Setting up ca-certificates (20241223) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 79.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC entries checked: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.40.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.40 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40 /usr/share/perl/5.40 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 8.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
152 added, 0 removed; done.
Setting up libp11-kit0:amd64 (0.25.5-3) ...
Setting up libgssapi-krb5-2:amd64 (1.21.3-5) ...
Setting up ucf (3.0051) ...
Setting up libreadline8t64:amd64 (8.2-6) ...
Setting up libpython3.13-stdlib:amd64 (3.13.2-3) ...
Setting up libpython3-stdlib:amd64 (3.13.2-2) ...
Setting up libgnutls30t64:amd64 (3.8.9-2) ...
Setting up python3.13 (3.13.2-3) ...
Setting up libpsl5t64:amd64 (0.21.2-1.1+b1) ...
Setting up python3 (3.13.2-2) ...
running python rtupdate hooks for python3.13...
running python post-rtupdate hooks for python3.13...
Setting up python3-wheel (0.45.1-1) ...
Setting up librtmp1:amd64 (2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d.1-2+b5) ...
Setting up python3-pip (25.0.1+dfsg-1) ...
Setting up libngtcp2-crypto-gnutls8:amd64 (1.11.0-1) ...
Setting up mercurial-common (6.9.5-1) ...
Setting up libcurl3t64-gnutls:amd64 (8.13.0-1) ...
Setting up curl (8.13.0-1) ...
Setting up mercurial (6.9.5-1) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 79.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC entries checked: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.40.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.40 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40 /usr/share/perl/5.40 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 8.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
Creating config file /etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/hgext.rc with new version
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.41-6) ...
Processing triggers for ca-certificates (20241223) ...
Updating certificates in /etc/ssl/certs...
0 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
done.
+ unset MOZ_AUTOMATION
+ curl -O https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/f64fa2ac1c7ef6845a9667a0679460d3347d3dcc/python/mozboot/bin/bootstrap.py
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
+ python3 bootstrap.py --no-interactive --application-choice browser
+ cd mozilla-unified
sh: 1: cd: can't cd to mozilla-unified
[taskcluster 2025-04-09 22:41:13.066Z] === Task Finished ===
[taskcluster 2025-04-09 22:41:13.066Z] Unsuccessful task run with exit code: 2 completed in 12.538 seconds

Comment 1

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

Attachment: Bug 1959550 - follow redirects when downloading bootstrap.py.

While there, add a retry, and tell curl to fail on error.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/182d78812cac
follow redirects when downloading bootstrap.py. r=glob

Comment 3

[Cristian Tuns]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/182d78812cac

Comment 4

[Intermittent Failures Robot]

1 failures were associated with this bug in the last 7 days.

Repository breakdown:

• mozilla-central: 1

Table

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linux64--/opt	1

For more details, see:

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/intermittent-failures/bugdetails?bug=1959550&startday=2025-04-07&endday=2025-04-13&tree=all