CI CD pipeline error rtrim expects parameter 1 to be string, bool given

[Jaimin-Devhero]

I have set up GitLab's CI CD pipeline in my project.

I am facing issues like the below error ("rtrim() expects parameter 1 to be string, bool given") when trying to run the composer install command from GitLab's ci cd pipeline job.
But when I run that command manually using ssh then works fine.

Please help me with this guys.

below is the error stash:

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: rtrim() expects parameter 1 to be string, bool given in phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Config.php:377
Stack trace:
#0 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Config.php(377): rtrim(false, '/\')
#1 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Factory.php(180): Composer\Config->get('home')
#2 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Factory.php(324): Composer\Factory::createConfig(Object(Composer\IO\ConsoleIO), '/var/app/stagin...')
#3 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Factory.php(610): Composer\Factory->createComposer(Object(Composer\IO\ConsoleIO), Array, true, '/var/app/stagin...', true, false)
#4 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(469): Composer\Factory::create(Object(Composer\IO\ConsoleIO), NULL, true, false)
#5 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(411): Composer\Console\Application->getComposer(false, true)
#6 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(352): Com in phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Config.php on line 377

2022/03/30 11:35:14.949767 [ERROR] An error occurred during execution of command [app-deploy] - [Install composer dependencies]. Stop running the command. Error: installing composer dependencies failed with error: Command /bin/sh -c composer.phar install --no-ansi --no-interaction failed with error exit status 255. Stderr:Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: rtrim() expects parameter 1 to be string, bool given in phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Config.php:377
Stack trace:
#0 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Config.php(377): rtrim(false, '/\')
#1 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Factory.php(180): Composer\Config->get('home')
#2 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Factory.php(324): Composer\Factory::createConfig(Object(Composer\IO\ConsoleIO), '/var/app/stagin...')
#3 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Factory.php(610): Composer\Factory->createComposer(Object(Composer\IO\ConsoleIO), Array, true, '/var/app/stagin...', true, false)
#4 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(469): Composer\Factory::create(Object(Composer\IO\ConsoleIO), NULL, true, false)
#5 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(411): Composer\Console\Application->getComposer(false, true)
#6 phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Console/Application.php(352): Com in phar:///usr/local/composer.phar/src/Composer/Config.php on line 377

[Seldaek]

What Composer version are you running?

I can't make sense of why this would fail with latest code.. but yet it seems to fail.

If you can also make sure you run it with -vvv and share full output of the bootstrap it may hint at what the problem is.

[bensebborn]

Same issue here, running from Ansible I get the above error. Running locally works fine

[Jaimin-Devhero]

Hello @Seldaek

My Composer version is: Composer 2.3.0 2022-03-30 11:15:36

[tisalmin]

Same here, deploying to AWS and version is 2.3.0. Forcing deploy to use version 2.2.9 works.

[Seldaek]

OK I can repro, will hopefully get a fix out soon.

[bensebborn]

Strangely the version pinning on install doesnt seem to work

php -c /etc/php-cli.ini /tmp/composer --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer --version=2.2.10

[ec2-user@ip-10-0-202-128 ~]$ composer -V Composer 2.3.0 2022-03-30 11:15:36

[Seldaek]

Sorry just to make sure I can clean this up correctly, do all of you have the COMPOSER_HOME env var set? Because otherwise it seems you should be getting an exception about HOME being unset (which is the issue triggering the rtrim problem).

[clementmas]

Yes COMPOSER_HOME is set properly. I'm also now getting this error all of the sudden on AWS Beanstalk.

[bensebborn]

I don't explicity set that env var (Can't see that mentioned in install docs?) - Presume the install script sets that?

php -c /etc/php-cli.ini /tmp/composer --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer --version=2.2.10

printenv COMPOSER_HOME
outputs nothing after install script is run

Out install script hasn't changed recently though so presume something in the upgrade has stopped the install script setting that env var?

[Seldaek]

https://github.com/composer/composer/releases/tag/2.3.1 is out now. Everyone please try release candidates next time :) If you update your scripts now you can change --version=xxx into --preview so you get the latest stable OR latest RC when available and you are ready to test the next one!

[bensebborn]

@Seldaek the --version doesn't seem to work but I'll open a new ticket. Thanks for fix

[clementmas]

That fixed it. Thanks for your reactivity @Seldaek!

I didn't know about the --preview flag.

[tisalmin]

Sorry just to make sure I can clean this up correctly, do all of you have the COMPOSER_HOME env var set? Because otherwise it seems you should be getting an exception about HOME being unset (which is the issue triggering the rtrim problem).

Yes