Unexpected exit code from Composer (255)

[mathewhany]

I was using composer with no problem when something happened and I thought there was a problem with my version of composer, so I ran "composer self-update", and this cause some kind of error, therefore I delete C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup, and I'm now trying to reinstall composer, but I get this error "Unexpected exit code from Composer (255)", and when I download ComposerSetup.exe again from the site I get network error!

This is really annoying. I don't know what happened!

[Seldaek]

Can you try to download https://getcomposer.org/download/1.0.0-alpha10/composer.phar with your browser and then run php composer.phar diagnose to see if that works?

[mathewhany]

I can't download it, It fails.

I think there is a problem with composer servers because I can't download ComposerSetup.exe or composer.phar or any file!

But I could download it from composer/composer.org on github, here's what I got

Checking platform settings: OK
Checking git settings: OK
Checking http connectivity: OK
Checking github.com rate limit: OK
Checking disk free space: OK
Checking composer version: FAIL
You are not running the latest version

[Seldaek]

What do you mean it fails? What do you see in your browser? Can I see a screenshot or something of the error? Can you access https://getcomposer.org at all?

[mathewhany]

Yes, I can access https://getcomposer.org! But I can't download any file! However, I could download it form github, and I tried "composer require slim/slim", it took 2 hours and for some reason nothing happened, It didn't download anything, it didn't show any error! I tried composer self-update again! and here what I get:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PharException' with message 'phar "C:\ProgramDa
ta\ComposerSetup\bin\composer.phar" has a broken signature' in C:\ProgramData\Co
mposerSetup\bin\composer.phar:23
Stack trace:
#0 C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\composer.phar(23): Phar::mapPhar('composer.p
har')
#1 {main}
thrown in C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\composer.phar on line 23

[Seldaek]

Network error.. that's not quite descriptive :/

Do you have curl on the command line by any chance? If not you can get one of the free versions from http://www.confusedbycode.com/curl/ to get it installed, and then if you can run curl -v https://getcomposer.org/version and paste the output it'd be great.

[mathewhany]

• Trying 87.98.253.108...
• Connected to getcomposer.org (87.98.253.108) port 443 (#0)
• ALPN, offering http/1.1
• Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@strength
• successfully set certificate verify locations:
• CAfile: C:\Users\Mathew\AppData\Local\Apps\cURL\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt
  CApath: none
• TLSv1.2, TLS Unknown, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
• NPN, negotiated HTTP1.1
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
• SSLv2, Unknown (20):
• TLSv1.2, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Unknown (67):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
• Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to getcomposer.org:443
• Closing connection 0
  curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to getcomposer.org:443

[Seldaek]

Can you also try curl -v https://packagist.org/packages.json see if that errors out the same?

[mathewhany]

• Trying 87.98.253.214...
• Connected to packagist.org (87.98.253.214) port 443 (#0)
• ALPN, offering http/1.1
• Cipher selection: ALL:!EXPORT:!EXPORT40:!EXPORT56:!aNULL:!LOW:!RC4:@strength
• successfully set certificate verify locations:
• CAfile: C:\Users\Mathew\AppData\Local\Apps\cURL\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt
  CApath: none
• TLSv1.2, TLS Unknown, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, CERT (11):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Server finished (14):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):
• SSLv2, Unknown (20):
• TLSv1.2, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
• SSLv2, Unknown (20):
• TLSv1.2, TLS change cipher, Client hello (1):
• SSLv2, Unknown (22):
• TLSv1.2, TLS handshake, Finished (20):
• SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
• ALPN, server did not agree to a protocol
• Server certificate:

•    subject: C=CH; ST=Z?rich; L=Z?rich; O=Nelmio AG; CN=packagist.org
  

•    start date: 2014-06-30 00:00:00 GMT
  

•    expire date: 2017-08-01 12:00:00 GMT
  

•    subjectAltName: packagist.org matched
  

•    issuer: C=US; O=DigiCert Inc; CN=DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
  

•    SSL certificate verify ok.
  

• SSLv2, Unknown (23):

  GET /packages.json HTTP/1.1
  Host: packagist.org
  User-Agent: curl/7.42.0
  Accept: /

• SSLv2, Unknown (23):
  < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  < Server: nginx
  < Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:03:35 GMT
  < Content-Type: application/json
  < Content-Length: 1072
  < Connection: keep-alive
  < Last-Modified: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:00:24 GMT
  < Accept-Ranges: bytes
  <
  {"packages":[],"notify":"/downloads/%package%","notify-batch":"/downloads/","providers-url":"/p/%package%$%hash%.json","search":"/search.json?q=%query%","provider-includes":{"p/provider-2013$%hash%.json":{"sha256":"21b82eaf50053f0ae3b84950a29a6c49bae9dc4f535f20986577ef411908d8b7"},"p/provider-2014$%hash%.json":{"sha256":"4736b8e831f9c890479e7659d83d9f8947b5c2b44df95de580bebffea902258a"},"p/provider-2014-07$%hash%.json":{"sha256":"f7def7da976f2df230ffd5e1b5ea0b4603ddaa3e3c377942ee226702c303a320"},"p/provider-2014-10$%hash%.json":{"sha256":"c124288226dd6809d5707d25519c171e13a903152b61bea5cbd27a3072c420ed"},"p/provider-2015-01$%hash%.json":{"sha256":"a58aa874f0d4fdc621ae0ba4cfde7ddc3a72acaf70cf3807c7d8438583243a94"},"p/provider-2015-04$%hash%.json":{"sha256":"b5190d79fe044148a07e7b1e485083fd306a23cef10811db7a8993af0ae2c163"},"p/provider-archived$%hash%.json":{"sha256":"9cf66c7784274c6616b3d24de00b79125648cd7d720435d5c3c208e537be6190"},"p/provider-latest$%hash%.json":{"sha256":"0d387225ca15b8c083de354b85e9025f1954a1874860f2dffbb9a068f53b0cd9"}}}* Connection #0 to host packagist.org left intact

[Seldaek]

Ok interesting.. can you try again the getcomposer one please? I tweaked the SSL config a bit to see if that helps.

[mathewhany]

Still the same error

[mathewhany]

Hay! I don't know what happened but I have another error now in ComposerSetup.exe

Connection Error [ERR_CONNECTION]: Unable to connect to getcomposer.org

Request to https://getcomposer.org/installer failed with errors:
SSL: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
. Failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

[Seldaek]

Damn ok. I'm not sure what's causing this from the output it's not quite clear to me.

@rdlowrey sorry to nag you every time but if you have any clue it'd be appreciated :)

[mathewhany]

Oh! I don't know how but now every thing works perfectly 😃 👍

I really mean every thing ComposerSetup.exe and https://getcomposer.org and everything, whatever you did, THANK YOU!

[Seldaek]

Well the funny thing is I didn't do anything, but I am glad it works.. I wonder if it's your internet provider doing funky things to SSL traffic.