installation fails on "failed to authenticate when downloading repository"

[cyisfor]

using rustc 1.8.0-dev, can't install cargo. Default build fails unconditionally.

to reproduce:

1. clone cargo
2. ./configure
3. make

target/snapshot/bin/cargo build --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --release
Updating registry https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
An unknown error occurred

Caused by:
failed to authenticate when downloading repository

[alexcrichton]

Could you re-run that command with -v to get some more error information as well?

[tristanwietsma]

Running into the same issue. With verbose on,

$ make
/Users/taw/local/bin/rustc -V
rustc 1.9.0-dev (c9629d61c 2016-03-10)
target/snapshot/bin/cargo --version
cargo 0.9.0-nightly (c4c6f39 2016-01-30)
target/snapshot/bin/cargo build --verbose --target x86_64-apple-darwin --release
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
failed to fetch `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`

Caused by:
  failed to authenticate when downloading repository

Caused by:
  [23/-1] error authenticating:
make: *** [cargo-x86_64-apple-darwin] Error 101

Additional Notes:

• I have a valid token in my global gitconfig.

[alexcrichton]

@tristanwietsma is the error intermittent or reproducible? Failing to authenticate with a connection that doesn't need authentication is odd indeed!

[tristanwietsma]

Reproducible; never succeeds.

[alexcrichton]

Oh what does your global .gitconfig look like? I think this error only shows up when cloning SSH repositories and that may be happening if something is being redirected with the gitconfig

[tristanwietsma]

yup, that was it. I had this for go getting private repos over SSH:

[url "[email protected]:"]
    insteadOf = https://github.com/

Removing solved it. Thanks.

[alexcrichton]

Ah ok, in that case I'm gonna close this in favor of #2078 as I think it's a dupe of that. Thanks for the investigation though!