Installer gets killed during installation

[kinnison]

Please I am unable to install rust 1.51.0 on Ubuntu 20.10 (groovy).
What could be wrong?

eshikafe@eshikafe-vb:~$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
info: downloading installer

Welcome to Rust!

This will download and install the official compiler for the Rust
programming language, and its package manager, Cargo.

Rustup metadata and toolchains will be installed into the Rustup
home directory, located at:

  /home/eshikafe/.rustup

This can be modified with the RUSTUP_HOME environment variable.

The Cargo home directory located at:

  /home/eshikafe/.cargo

This can be modified with the CARGO_HOME environment variable.

The cargo, rustc, rustup and other commands will be added to
Cargo's bin directory, located at:

  /home/eshikafe/.cargo/bin

This path will then be added to your PATH environment variable by
modifying the profile files located at:

  /home/eshikafe/.profile
  /home/eshikafe/.bashrc

You can uninstall at any time with rustup self uninstall and
these changes will be reverted.

Current installation options:


   default host triple: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
     default toolchain: stable (default)
               profile: default
  modify PATH variable: yes

1) Proceed with installation (default)
2) Customize installation
3) Cancel installation
>1

info: profile set to 'default'
info: default host triple is x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
info: latest update on 2021-03-25, rust version 1.51.0 (2fd73fabe 2021-03-23)
info: downloading component 'cargo'
  6.0 MiB /   6.0 MiB (100 %)   3.4 MiB/s in  2s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'clippy'
info: downloading component 'rust-docs'
 14.9 MiB /  14.9 MiB (100 %)   1.4 MiB/s in 17s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'rust-std'
 24.9 MiB /  24.9 MiB (100 %)   1.3 MiB/s in 23s ETA:  0s 
info: downloading component 'rustc'
 50.4 MiB /  50.4 MiB (100 %)   3.2 MiB/s in 19s ETA:  0s
info: downloading component 'rustfmt'
info: installing component 'cargo'
info: using up to 500.0 MiB of RAM to unpack components
info: installing component 'clippy'
info: installing component 'rust-docs'
 14.9 MiB /  14.9 MiB (100 %)   3.1 MiB/s in  4s ETA:  0s
info: installing component 'rust-std'
 24.9 MiB /  24.9 MiB (100 %)   5.4 MiB/s in  5s ETA:  0s
info: installing component 'rustc'
 30.1 MiB /  50.4 MiB ( 60 %)   6.0 MiB/s in  5s ETA:  3sKilled
eshikafe@eshikafe-vb:~$ 

rustup is unable to install rustc. It gets Killed while installing rustc.

Originally posted by @eshikafe in #2661 (comment)

[kinnison]

Hi @eshikafe

Are you able to tell me how much RAM that system has? Is there any indication in the kernel's logs (visible via the dmesg command) which corresponds with you trying to install Rust?

That kind of message typically happens if you run out of RAM, or if there's something even more wrong with the system.

[eshikafe]

Thanks @kinnison for the hint. I increased my VM's RAM from 1G to 4G to resolve the issue.

[rbtcollins]

Should be fixed with 1.24.1

[rbtcollins]

Fixed by 1.24.2 for sure.

[BnDLett]

Currently having this issue on my rpi zero 2 w, which has 512 MB of RAM. Currently plan on building and running on my rpi rather than just building on my local machine.

[aschaeffer]

Currently having this issue on my rpi zero 2 w, which has 512 MB of RAM. Currently plan on building and running on my rpi rather than just building on my local machine.

I had the same issue. You can temporarily enable and increase the swap to install the rust toolchain:

https://gist.github.com/tstellanova/0a6d8a70acc58a0d5be13ebaa7c935d4?permalink_comment_id=4647130#gistcomment-4647130

It would be helpful if rustup would warn about insufficient memory.

[BnDLett]

Would absolutely be useful, yes.

[rami3l]

@rbtcollins Looks like #2707 hasn't completely addressed this issue?

[rami3l]

@BnDLett @aschaeffer I found some workarounds which might be helpful for you:

For whomever finds this thread while trying to install on raspberry pi zero 2w, I had to export RUSTUP_UNPACK_RAM=250000000 to get it to work

Originally posted by @ixje in #2564 (comment)

A bit of a necro, but I was able to install rustc on a 512MB RAM OrangePi (4 cores) by also setting RUSTUP_IO_THREADS=1.

Originally posted by @mon in #2919 (comment)

[rami3l]

Related to #2919.

[AndreasOM]

Just hit this today on an EC2 instance.

Workaround for reference:
Create a swap file. (dd, mkswap, swapon)

You have to uninstall and (re)install the toolchain, as it ends up in a very broken state.