Hdiutil fails when using "brew cask install"

Archive Other Issues
1

Our build has used Chrome in selenium on a Mac stack for a few months now and as of today (last successful build was 4 days ago), the step to install Chrome fails on every build because of hdiutil apparently failing.

+ brew cask install Caskroom/cask/google-chrome
Warning: /usr/local is not writable, sudo is needed to move the Caskroom.
==> Moving Caskroom from HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY to HOMEBREW_PREFIX
==> Satisfying dependencies
complete
==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg
==> No checksum defined for Cask google-chrome, skipping verification
==> Installing Cask google-chrome
Error: Command failed to execute!

==> Failed command:
/usr/bin/hdiutil mount -plist -nobrowse -readonly -noidme -mountrandom /tmp #<Pathname:/Users/vagrant/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/google-chrome--latest.dmg>

==> Standard Output of failed command:


==> Standard Error of failed command:


==> Exit status of failed command:

I’m somewhat assuming something has changed over the weekend, which is now breaking this all the time.

1 Like
2

Did you try it with sudo, like sudo brew cask install ...?

Based on the warning line Warning: /usr/local is not writable, sudo is needed to move the Caskroom. that’s the most likely cause I think.

As always, you can find the changes at Changelog, this weekend’s changelog: Weekly Virtual Machine / Stack updates - 2017.04.29

If you have any questions please let us know!

3

Turns out (and thanks to @viktorbenei for the suggestion), that a brew update fixes it.

1 Like
4

Thanks for reporting @seanparsons! :wink:

Just for future reference, this means that instead of just

brew cask install Caskroom/cask/google-chrome

you run

brew update && brew cask install Caskroom/cask/google-chrome

To first update the brew “registry”, and then install the latest version of the package.

5

Just to add, running brew update first can also avoid problems with mismatched checksums like the one below, so it’s always recommended to run brew update && brew cask install <formula>.

+ brew cask install google-chrome
==> Satisfying dependencies
==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg
Error: Checksum for Cask 'google-chrome' does not match.
Expected: 86c3885a1341f5b2d90900746dddd555cf7a31dcfae629ccc731391ff278177a
Actual:   9f85337a9bbaf7bdde5ce394eb309a2ea3335f1405744bc72d27993ca919e883
File:     /Users/vagrant/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Cask/google-chrome--62.0.3202.94.dmg
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.
==> Verifying checksum for Cask google-chrome
==> Note: running "brew update" may fix sha256 checksum errors
1 Like
6

Thanks for the note @markcharacterscope! :slight_smile: