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buildbox-casd and buildbox-fuse mismatch when having both wheel and system installed versions

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
grpc, python
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by reproducing the installation scenario with buildbox-casd in PATH and buildbox-fuse from the wheel, then trace how BuildStream selects each executable. Use the reported buildboxcasd_fusestager.cpp failure and gRPC error to identify the version mismatch boundary. Done should mean incompatible system and wheel components are no longer silently combined.

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Description

When having buildbox installed in the PATH and in the wheel, buildstream mismatches them. IIRC, it will use the buildbox-casd from the PATH and buildbox-fuse from the wheel.

If the two versions are incompatible, this can result in a buildstream crash with the error:

    grpc._channel._MultiThreadedRendezvous: <_MultiThreadedRendezvous of RPC that terminated with:
        status = StatusCode.INTERNAL
        details = "std::runtime_error exception thrown at [buildboxcasd_fusestager.cpp:144], errMsg = "The FUSE stager child process unexpectedly died with exit code 1""
        debug_error_string = "UNKNOWN:Error received from peer  {created_time:"2024-11-20T09:16:31.255363002+00:00", grpc_status:13, grpc_message:"std::runtime_error exception thrown at [buildboxcasd_fusestager.cpp:144], errMsg = \"The FUSE stager child process unexpectedly died with exit code 1\""}"
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