`setup_circle_ci` step fails with error "The terminfo database could not be found" about fastlane

[ashinkuniyil]

Adding gem 'rb-readline' before gem "fastlane" in the Gemfile resolved the issue for me.

xcode:
macos:
xcode: '15.3.0'

Ruby 3.3.0

[jRichardeau]

We found a workaround, the issue seems to come from a ruby update on version 3.3.0 that removes ext/readline.

The solution is to freeze ruby version to 3.2 or install yourself the removed dependency with gem install readline-ext.

Maybe there is something to update on fastlane codebase ? 👀

[airowe]

@jRichardeau Why was this closed? Still seeing this issue in our setup.

[dolzhenko-tony]

Updated macos-orb to 2.4.1 and ruby-orb to 2.1.1 fixed problem.

[NeilCossorFrollo]

just hit the same issue, and macos orb 2.4.1 and ruby orb 2.1.1 did not get around the issue..
"setup_circle_ci step fails with error "The terminfo database could not be found"

[airowe]

just hit the same issue, and macos orb 2.4.1 and ruby 2.1.1 did not get around the issue..

"setup_circle_ci step fails with error "The terminfo database could not be found"

Ruby version should be fixed to 3.2, not 2.1.1 (that's the version of the Ruby orb).

[Vaidios]

Locking ruby version to 3.2 works, if anyone is wondering, this can be done through macOS orb:

- macos/switch-ruby:
       version: "3.2"

This does seem like a temporary solution to this problem though.

After my quick investigation it indeed seems like tty-screen gem uses readline on line 356:
ruby/3.3.0/gems/tty-screen-0.8.2/lib/tty/screen.rb:356:insize_from_readline'`
which s being retired on ruby 3.3.

It seems like the best approach to it would be to fix it in tty-screen gem and then bump this fastlane dependency, is that right?
This is my first time trying to contribute to open source in any way, so I don't really know my way around these problems :D

Edit:
I created a following issue in tty-screen repo
piotrmurach/tty-screen#18

[pedrofneves]

Use the previous macos machine 15.2.0 on CircleCI. It worked for me.

https://circleci.com/docs/using-macos/

[piotrmurach]

The tty-screen when attempting to detect size from readline attempts to load this standard gem. Loading the readline gem on Ruby 3.3 will first attempt to load the readline-ext C extension when present or fall back to using the pure Ruby reline gem.

Therefore, by default tty-screen doesn't install or rely on the readline-ext gem on Ruby 3.3 as it is no longer part of the installation as noted by @jRichardeau, however, given the log output, it uses reline to try to detect terminal size. In turn, the Reline::TermInfo module setupterm tries to find out if a terminal is attached via the curses extension and fails.

I've noticed that the Circle CI setup uses tty-screen version 0.8.1. There is a newer release of tty-screen, version 0.8.2. In this release, I check if the terminal is attached before attempting to load readline and following that reline dependency. Therefore, my suggestion would be to upgrade tty-screen to 0.8.2 on Ruby 3.3 and see if that resolves the issue.