"Unable to create temporary file for decompression of gzipped phar archive" Error

[norareidy]

I'm trying to install the MongoDB PHP extension on macOS Sonoma 14.7. I get this error when I run pie install mongodb/mongodb-extension:

In TarDownloader.php line 31:
                                                                                                                                                                                    
  [UnexpectedValueException]                                                                                                                                                        
  unable to create temporary file for decompression of gzipped phar archive "/Users/nora.reidy/.pie/php8.4_e1ab840161826aca7524fa34ef95d1d5/vendor/composer/tmp-97a929f5202ad12dd3  
  875b9e9e12f6e0.tgz"        

This seems to be an issue with pie rather than mongodb-extension. Here's the verbose output of the error:

- Installing mongodb/mongodb-extension (2.1.1): Extracting archive
Executing command (CWD): 'rm' '-rf' '/Users/nora.reidy/.pie/php8.4_e1ab840161826aca7524fa34ef95d1d5/vendor/composer/5c5e9692'
Executing command (CWD): 'rm' '-rf' '/Users/nora.reidy/.pie/php8.4_e1ab840161826aca7524fa34ef95d1d5/vendor/mongodb/mongodb-extension'
  Install of mongodb/mongodb-extension failed

In TarDownloader.php line 31:
                                                                                           
 [UnexpectedValueException]                                                                             
 unable to create temporary file for decompression of gzipped phar archive "/Users/nora.reidy/.pie/php8.4_e1ab840161826aca7524fa34ef95d1d5/vendor/composer/tmp-97a929f5202ad12dd3  
 875b9e9e12f6e0.tgz"                                                                                
                                                                                           

Exception trace:
 at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Downloader/TarDownloader.php:31
 PharData->__construct() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Downloader/TarDownloader.php:31
 Composer\Downloader\TarDownloader->extract() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Downloader/ArchiveDownloader.php:103
 Composer\Downloader\ArchiveDownloader->install() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Downloader/DownloadManager.php:273
 Composer\Downloader\DownloadManager->install() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer/LibraryInstaller.php:281
 Composer\Installer\LibraryInstaller->installCode() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer/LibraryInstaller.php:152
 Composer\Installer\LibraryInstaller->install() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/src/ComposerIntegration/PiePackageInstaller.php:39
 Php\Pie\ComposerIntegration\PiePackageInstaller->install() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer/InstallationManager.php:467
 Composer\Installer\InstallationManager->install() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer/InstallationManager.php:381
 Composer\Installer\InstallationManager->{closure:Composer\Installer\InstallationManager::executeBatch():380}() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/react/promise/src/Internal/FulfilledPromise.php:47
 React\Promise\Internal\FulfilledPromise->then() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer/InstallationManager.php:380
 Composer\Installer\InstallationManager->executeBatch() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer/InstallationManager.php:322
 Composer\Installer\InstallationManager->downloadAndExecuteBatch() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer/InstallationManager.php:221
 Composer\Installer\InstallationManager->execute() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer.php:839
 Composer\Installer->doInstall() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer.php:649
 Composer\Installer->doUpdate() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/composer/composer/src/Composer/Installer.php:298
 Composer\Installer->run() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/src/ComposerIntegration/ComposerIntegrationHandler.php:80
 Php\Pie\ComposerIntegration\ComposerIntegrationHandler->runInstall() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/src/Command/InstallCommand.php:103
 Php\Pie\Command\InstallCommand->execute() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php:326
 Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:1096
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:324
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php:175
 Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run() at phar:///usr/local/bin/pie/bin/pie:53
 require() at /usr/local/bin/pie:15

I have read/write/execute permission in the /Users/nora.reidy/.pie directory so I'm not sure why I'm getting the error. Any help would be much appreciated!

[asgrim]

Does your user have access to the temporary directory (presumably /tmp, if not, whatever sys_get_temp_dir() is), and have enough space?

[norareidy]

Yes I have access to /tmp (points to /private/tmp):

drwxrwxrwt 582 root wheel 18624 Jun 23 14:04 /private/tmp

And I have space:

➜  ~ df -h /private/tmp

Filesystem      Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk3s5   460Gi   123Gi   317Gi    28%    2.7M  3.3G    0%   /System/Volumes/Data

[asgrim]

Thank you. Also, do have the zip extension? (you can check with php -m)

[GromNaN]

I tried to diagnose the case with Nora before opening this issue. The zip extension is available on her system. mongodb extension too, but it was installed with pecl previously.

➜ ~ php -m
[PHP Modules]
bcmath
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dba
dom
exif
FFI
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
gmp
hash
iconv
intl
json
ldap
libxml
mbstring
mongodb
mysqli
mysqlnd
odbc
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_dblib
pdo_mysql
PDO_ODBC
pdo_pgsql
pdo_sqlite
pgsql
Phar
posix
random
readline
Reflection
session
shmop
SimpleXML
snmp
soap
sockets
sodium
SPL
sqlite3
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tidy
tokenizer
xdebug
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
xsl
Zend OPcache
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]
Xdebug
Zend OPcache

[asgrim]

Hmm, looking further into this, the error comes from phar.c:

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/8b61c49987750b74bee19838c7f7c9fbbf53aace/ext/phar/phar.c#L1693-L1695

This calls php_stream_fopen_tmpfile which in turn calls php_stream_fopen_temporary_file:

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/8b61c49987750b74bee19838c7f7c9fbbf53aace/main/streams/plain_wrapper.c#L217-L248

If I'm reading correctly, there are two scenarios this fails:

• making the file descriptor for a file in the temp directory
• opening a stream in r+b mode to that file

I'm not really sure what else can be causing this issue, beyond permissions, as the error described isn't doing anything more than opening that stream, as far as I can tell. I am able to install mongodb 2.1.1 without issue:

$ pie install --with-php-config /usr/bin/php-config8.1 -v mongodb/mongodb-extension:2.1.1
🥧 PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) dev-main, from The PHP Foundation
This command may need elevated privileges, and may prompt you for your password.
You are running PHP 8.4.8
Target PHP installation: 8.1.32 nts, on Linux/OSX/etc x86_64 (from /usr/bin/php8.1)
Found package: mongodb/mongodb-extension:2.1.1 which provides ext-mongodb
Found prebuilt archive: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver/releases/download/2.1.1/mongodb-2.1.1.tgz
Extracted mongodb/mongodb-extension:2.1.1 source to: /home/james/.config/pie/php8.1_1926b53d473f34215340e5a1d0b48b5e/vendor/mongodb/mongodb-extension/mongodb-2.1.1
phpize complete.
Configure complete with options: --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config8.1
Build complete: /home/james/.config/pie/php8.1_1926b53d473f34215340e5a1d0b48b5e/vendor/mongodb/mongodb-extension/mongodb-2.1.1/modules/mongodb.so
Cannot write to /usr/lib/php/20210902, so using sudo to elevate privileges.
Install complete: /usr/lib/php/20210902/mongodb.so
✅ Extension is enabled and loaded in /usr/bin/php8.1

I don't have a Macbook to reproduce this unfortunately :(