Kibana build error

Elastic Stack Kibana
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I am trying to build Kibana 6.6 and see spawn fpm ENOENT error.
I am running command yarn build without any options.

Below is the error.

info [ kibana ] Creating deb package
│ debg calling fpm with args: [ '--force',
│ '-t',
│ 'deb',
│ '--package',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/target/NAME-6.6.3-SNAPSHOT-ARCH.TYPE',
│ '-s',
│ 'dir',
│ '--name',
│ 'kibana',
│ '--description',
│ 'Explore and visualize your Elasticsearch data',
│ '--version',
│ '6.6.3-SNAPSHOT',
│ '--url',
│ 'https://www.elastic.co',
│ '--vendor',
│ 'Elasticsearch, Inc.',
│ '--maintainer',
│ 'Kibana Team info@elastic.co',
│ '--license',
│ 'Elastic-License',
│ '--conflicts',
│ 'kibana-oss',
│ '--after-install',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/package_scripts/post_install.sh',
│ '--before-install',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/package_scripts/pre_install.sh',
│ '--before-remove',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/package_scripts/pre_remove.sh',
│ '--after-remove',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/package_scripts/post_remove.sh',
│ '--config-files',
│ '/etc/kibana/kibana.yml',
│ '--template-value',
│ 'user=kibana',
│ '--template-value',
│ 'group=kibana',
│ '--template-value',
│ 'optimizeDir=/usr/share/kibana/optimize',
│ '--template-value',
│ 'configDir=/etc/kibana',
│ '--template-value',
│ 'pluginsDir=/usr/share/kibana/plugins',
│ '--template-value',
│ 'dataDir=/var/lib/kibana',
│ '--exclude',
│ 'usr/share/kibana/config',
│ '--exclude',
│ 'usr/share/kibana/data',
│ '--architecture',
│ 'amd64',
│ '--deb-priority',
│ 'optional',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/build/default/kibana-6.6.3-SNAPSHOT-linux-x86_64/=/usr/share/kibana/',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/build/default/kibana-6.6.3-SNAPSHOT-linux-x86_64/config/=/etc/kibana/',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/build/default/kibana-6.6.3-SNAPSHOT-linux-x86_64/data/=/var/lib/kibana/',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/sysv/etc/=/etc/',
│ '/Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/systemd/etc/=/etc/' ]
│ info $ fpm --force -t deb --package /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/target/NAME-6.6.3-SNAPSHOT-ARCH.TYPE -s dir --name kibana --description Explore and visualize your Elasticsearch data --version 6.6.3-SNAPSHOT --url https://www.elastic.co --vendor Elasticsearch, Inc. --maintainer Kibana Team info@elastic.co --license Elastic-License --conflicts kibana-oss --after-install /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/package_scripts/post_install.sh --before-install /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/package_scripts/pre_install.sh --before-remove /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/package_scripts/pre_remove.sh --after-remove /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/package_scripts/post_remove.sh --config-files /etc/kibana/kibana.yml --template-value user=kibana --template-value group=kibana --template-value optimizeDir=/usr/share/kibana/optimize --template-value configDir=/etc/kibana --template-value pluginsDir=/usr/share/kibana/plugins --template-value dataDir=/var/lib/kibana --exclude usr/share/kibana/config --exclude usr/share/kibana/data --architecture amd64 --deb-priority optional /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/build/default/kibana-6.6.3-SNAPSHOT-linux-x86_64/=/usr/share/kibana/ /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/build/default/kibana-6.6.3-SNAPSHOT-linux-x86_64/config/=/etc/kibana/ /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/build/default/kibana-6.6.3-SNAPSHOT-linux-x86_64/data/=/var/lib/kibana/ /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/sysv/etc/=/etc/ /Users/j0l03mx/repo/kibana/kibana-ext/src/dev/build/tasks/os_packages/service_templates/systemd/etc/=/etc/
│ERROR failure
│ERROR Error: spawn fpm ENOENT
│ at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:240:19)
│ at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:415:16)
│ at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19)
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit yarn run | Yarn for documentation about this command.

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HI,
Probaly, you can try and delete the optimize folder in the kibana folder and restarting Kibana. There have been improvements to not having the optimization process failing in Kibana.
I saw similar issue being reported here: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17190

Is there a version mismatch btw Kibana and ES ? Also thinking its a permission issue. Try setting it as KIBANA_ROOT and check it if it works?

Thanks
Rashmi

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Hi Rashmi,

Sorry for the late reply and thanks a lot for your information.
Here is what I have done.

  1. git clone https://github.com/elastic/kibana.git kibana
  2. cd kibana
  3. git checkout 6.6
  4. yarn kbn bootstrap
    --- And running kibana with yarn start works all fine.
  5. yarn build

Running Kibana itself is all fine. The issue is when I try to build. The kibana version is 6.6 and if I understand correctly, the build shouldn't matter with elasticsearch version?

And what does 'KIBANA_ROOT' mean as you mentioned above? Where should I set this?

Thank you so much!!
Jasmine

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Kibana uses the ruby gem fpm to build deb and rpm packages. If you don't need deb or rpm builds you can yarn build --skip-os-packages, or if you do gem install fpm. https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#building-os-packages has a little more info for further reading

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Hi,
Sorry for really long wait response and thanks a lot for your comments.
Actually we are trying to setup a Kibana build environment from the git source. I talked to our team members, here are some questions I have.

  1. Is there a specific Linux and version required to build Kibana 6.6? Would CentOs Linux works?
  2. Is there any other dependencies? From the document, I only see ruby-dev and fpm.
apt-get install ruby-dev rpm
gem install fpm -v 1.5.0
  1. Since our build system are really restrict from download outside packages, is there a way to skip download packages from the build commands? And if we skipped, what are the packages we need to pre-download / pre-setup?
  2. And is there any commands or options whihch we can use to include the installed plugins in the build files?
    Thanks sooooo much!!
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