rustup: error: missing key: 'url'

For the sake of anybody stuck without rust toolchain due to this bug, this is a workaround for the install nightly:

rustup install nightly-2017-04-11

I’ve submitted a fix for rust-lang/rust at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/41267

Hi,

Same problem here:

$ rustup update stable
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-apple-darwin'
error: missing key: 'url'
$ rustup update stable
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-apple-darwin'
error: missing key: 'url'

Then I tried

$ rustup update
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-apple-darwin'
error: missing key: 'url'
info: checking for self-updates
info: downloading self-update

  stable-x86_64-apple-darwin update failed - rustc 1.17.0 (56124baa9 2017-04-24)

And finally:

$ rustup update stable
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-apple-darwin'
info: latest update on 2017-10-12, rust version 1.21.0 (3b72af97e 2017-10-09)
info: downloading component 'rustc'
 35.2 MiB /  35.2 MiB (100 %)   2.1 MiB/s ETA:   0 s
info: downloading component 'rust-std'
 48.0 MiB /  48.0 MiB (100 %)   2.1 MiB/s ETA:   0 s
info: downloading component 'cargo'
  2.7 MiB /   2.7 MiB (100 %)   2.3 MiB/s ETA:   0 s
info: downloading component 'rust-docs'
  4.0 MiB /   4.0 MiB (100 %)   2.3 MiB/s ETA:   0 s
info: removing component 'rustc'
info: removing component 'rust-std'
info: removing component 'cargo'
info: removing component 'rust-docs'
info: installing component 'rustc'
info: installing component 'rust-std'
info: installing component 'cargo'
info: installing component 'rust-docs'

  stable-x86_64-apple-darwin updated - rustc 1.21.0 (3b72af97e 2017-10-09)

Alex is fixing the rustbuild side of this but testing it might take some time and might not be fixed until tomorrow PDT.

@erickt and I are looking into this and coordinating investigation in the #rust-infra IRC room

I encountered this error message but re-running about an hour later succeeded. I hadn’t updated in a while, if that matters.

First run:

[2017-09-29 01:50:00] ~ $ rustup update
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
error: missing key: 'url'
info: syncing channel updates for 'nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
info: downloading component 'rustc'
 54.0 MiB /  54.0 MiB (100 %)   6.6 MiB/s ETA:   0 s                
info: downloading component 'rust-std'
 81.4 MiB /  81.4 MiB (100 %)   6.7 MiB/s ETA:   0 s                
info: downloading component 'cargo'
info: downloading component 'rust-docs'
 14.3 MiB /  14.3 MiB (100 %)   6.7 MiB/s ETA:   0 s                
info: installing component 'rustc'
info: installing component 'rust-std'
info: installing component 'cargo'
info: installing component 'rust-docs'
info: checking for self-updates
info: downloading self-update

  stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu update failed - rustc 1.8.0 (db2939409 2016-04-11)
       nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu updated - rustc 1.22.0-nightly (3c96d40d3 2017-09-28)

Second run:

[2017-09-29 03:06:39] ~ $ rustup update
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
info: latest update on 2017-08-31, rust version 1.20.0 (f3d6973f4 2017-08-27)
info: downloading component 'rustc'
 38.3 MiB /  38.3 MiB (100 %)   6.6 MiB/s ETA:   0 s                
info: downloading component 'rust-std'
 57.9 MiB /  57.9 MiB (100 %)   6.7 MiB/s ETA:   0 s                
info: downloading component 'cargo'
info: downloading component 'rust-docs'
info: removing component 'rustc'
info: removing component 'rust-std'
info: removing component 'rust-docs'
info: removing component 'cargo'
info: installing component 'rustc'
info: installing component 'rust-std'
info: installing component 'cargo'
info: installing component 'rust-docs'
info: syncing channel updates for 'nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
info: checking for self-updates

     stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu updated - rustc 1.20.0 (f3d6973f4 2017-08-27)
  nightly-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.22.0-nightly (3c96d40d3 2017-09-28)

I also had this problem today. The rustup update && rustup update nightly fix worked for me. Would it not make sense to update the necessary part automatically?

@numberoverzero I had that situation too. I believe it’s because of the “downloading self-update” step in the first run, which has applied a fix. Future runs should proceed without error, hopefully.

Got a potential fix to add rustup support for unavailable packages up in #1063.

Closing as fixed upstream

@marti1125 that is a different issue - it just means that the CDN is temporarily out of sync due to caching pecularities, it should have fixed itself within a few minutes.

As a workaround for travis, in your .travis.yml, you can change:

 rust:
  - nightly

to this, to pin to last night’s nightly for today:

rust:
  - nightly-2017-04-11

This worked for me.