# Julia 1.6.0 package manager - error message "noise" in custom Docker image on add/update

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [March 26, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037 "2021-03-26T18:40:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![twadleigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/twadleigh/32/22778_2.png) [@twadleigh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/twadleigh)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/1 "2021-03-26T18:40:48Z")

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I just bumped the julia version to 1.6.0 in a Docker image we use in my organization. I now see repetitions of the same error message when doing package operations. For instance:

```julia
(@v1.6) pkg> update
    Updating registry at `/build/jl/depot/registries/General`
┌ Error: curl_easy_setopt: 48
└ @ Downloads.Curl /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Downloads/src/Curl/utils.jl:36
┌ Error: curl_easy_setopt: 48
└ @ Downloads.Curl /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Downloads/src/Curl/utils.jl:36
┌ Error: curl_easy_setopt: 48
└ @ Downloads.Curl /buildworker/worker/package_linux64/build/usr/share/julia/stdlib/v1.6/Downloads/src/Curl/utils.jl:36
  No Changes to `/build/jl/depot/environments/v1.6/Project.toml`
  No Changes to `/build/jl/depot/environments/v1.6/Manifest.toml`

```

I would call the message “noise” because I don’t see any evidence that the operation actually failed.

I hesitate to suggest this is a bug in julia or its packages, because, while I can consistently reproduce this problem in instances of our Docker image, I can’t reproduce it when running julia 1.6.0 on bare metal or in the official `julia:1.6.0` Docker image. So I figured I would post here on Discourse before opening an issue at [Downloads.jl](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Downloads.jl). I see there is already an open [issue](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Downloads.jl/issues/108) there related to the package manager in 1.6.0, but I tried the suggested workaround there, and it doesn’t fix my issue, so I’m guessing it is unrelated.

For completeness:

```julia
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.6.0
Commit f9720dc2eb (2021-03-24 12:55 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-11.0.1 (ORCJIT, znver2)

```

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**Author:** ![twadleigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/twadleigh/32/22778_2.png) [@twadleigh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/twadleigh)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/2 "2021-03-26T21:17:18Z")

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I suppose the next thing I can try to do is start commenting out `RUN` statements in my `Dockerfile` to see if I can isolate what makes my image different.

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/3 "2021-03-26T22:40:10Z")

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This looks like an error that was present in 1.6.0-beta and possibly 1.6.0-rc1. It should definitely be fixed in 1.6.0 final. Are you sure you are running 1.6.0 in docker? The official images are still on 1.6.0-rc3 (for me, at the time of writing).

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**Author:** ![twadleigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/twadleigh/32/22778_2.png) [@twadleigh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/twadleigh)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/4 "2021-03-27T00:19:49Z")

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Yes, the official image is still using RC3, but I am definitely using the official release in my own image where I am experiencing the problem. This bug is rather slippery, it seems. I worked up a MWE `Dockerfile` that could reproduce the problem, but then, as I was polishing it up, it stopped working, and I couldn’t get it to work again. I’m starting over right now.

At one point it looked like I could exactly isolate it to the installation of `libcurl4-gnutls-dev`, while the installation of all of its dependencies caused no issue.

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**Author:** ![twadleigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/twadleigh/32/22778_2.png) [@twadleigh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/twadleigh)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 2:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/5 "2021-03-27T02:02:12Z")

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Here is the contents of a `Dockerfile` containing a MWE:

```julia
# syntax = docker/dockerfile:1.0-experimental

# When based off these images, we don't see the failure
#FROM ubuntu:18.04
#FROM nvidia/cudagl:11.2.2-base-ubuntu20.04

# Based off this image, we see the failure.
FROM nvidia/cudagl:11.2.2-base-ubuntu18.04

RUN \
  apt-get update \
  && apt-get upgrade -y \
  && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install --fix-missing --no-install-recommends -y \
  ca-certificates \
  curl \
  libcurl4-gnutls-dev # <-- Culprit somehow? When this is commented out, there is no failure. \
  libcurl3-gnutls # The only additional dependency brought in by libcurl4-gnutls-dev. By itself, it causes no problem. \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

ARG JULIA_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION="1.6"
ARG JULIA_PATCH_LEVEL="0"
ARG JULIA_DL_URL="https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.6"
ARG JULIA_VERSION="${JULIA_MAJOR_MINOR_VERSION}.${JULIA_PATCH_LEVEL}"
ARG JULIA_PACKAGE="julia-${JULIA_VERSION}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
ARG JULIA_INSTALL_DIR="/usr/local/julia"
WORKDIR /usr/src/julia
RUN --mount=type=secret,id=netrc curl --netrc-file /run/secrets/netrc \
  ${JULIA_DL_URL}/${JULIA_PACKAGE} \
  -o ${JULIA_PACKAGE} \
  && mkdir ${JULIA_INSTALL_DIR} \
  && tar -xf ${JULIA_PACKAGE} -C ${JULIA_INSTALL_DIR} --strip=1 \
  && rm ${JULIA_PACKAGE}

ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/julia/bin/julia", "-e", "import Pkg; Pkg.update()"]

```

I tried as far as I could to unwind the base `Dockerfile` definitions down to `ubuntu:18.04` but couldn’t manage to get further than `nvidia/cudagl:11.2.2-base-ubuntu18.04` while still being able to reproduce the error.

I guess this suggests the issue is somewhere in the `nvidia` Docker images? That’s not super helpful for me, though, as we need our image to be based off of `nvidia/cudagl`…

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**Author:** ![twadleigh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/twadleigh/32/22778_2.png) [@twadleigh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/twadleigh)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/6 "2021-03-27T03:38:18Z")

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I think the workaround I’m going to go with is to remove the dependency that ends up bringing in `libcurl4-gnutls-dev`, since I don’t believe we actually end up needing it for our purposes. Still, not the most satisfying resolution.

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/7 "2021-03-27T08:26:01Z")

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I don’t really see how the installation of another libcurl should matter. Julia should use the one that it comes bundled with. Is something setting `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`?

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**Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/8 "2021-03-29T16:38:47Z")

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Thanks for the lead. Yes, it gets set in the `nvidia/cudagl` images. I don’t know that it is an option to unset it in our use case, but it is at least much more satisfying to have a plausible explanation.

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/9 "2021-03-30T19:57:27Z")

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Seeing this “noise” on a supercomputer (no docker involved) as well. x-ref: [Downloads.jl: Error: curl\_easy\_setopt: 48](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/downloads-jl-error-curl-easy-setopt-48/58222)

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**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/10 "2021-03-30T20:14:22Z")

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Did you see the linked post in your thread (to the one identifying the issue in this thread)?

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**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/11 "2021-03-31T00:53:54Z")

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The two ingredients that seemed necessary to see error message noise in my case were:

1. `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` is set globally;
2. `libcurl4-gnutls-dev` is installed.

The latter ended up being brought in by `libvtk6-dev` in my case. My workaround was to remove it.

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**Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/12 "2021-04-12T21:17:25Z")

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Getting lots of those messages too on macOS with a fresh install. I unset `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, but no joy. Any other leads?

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**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/13 "2021-04-15T23:34:14Z")

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On macOS you might have to check/unset `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` and `DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH`.

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**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 7:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-0-package-manager-error-message-noise-in-custom-docker-image-on-add-update/58037/14 "2021-05-06T19:54:24Z")

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I’m experiencing this (or something similar) on a Mac. See [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-corporate-firewall-could-not-download-https-pkg-julialang-org-registries/60665). I checked on and cleared `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH`, and that didn’t make a difference.