I tried installing rust using rustup but after install rustc isn't working.

[asamolion]

timeout reading rustc version
I've installed the rust toolchain using

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

However after installation I get this message

timeout reading rustc version

and the rustc compiler doesn't work at all. It simple halts in a blank screen while doing nothing.

Steps

1. Install the toolchain using rustup.
2. simply type rustc --version
3. Nothing happens. No version is printed

Notes
OS: Linux Mint 19.1

Output of rustup --version: Not showing
Output of rustup show:

Default host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (default)
(timeout reading rustc version)

[ehuss]

Do you have an anti-virus installed (such as ESET)? I have seen similar things happen.

It might be helpful to post a stack trace of rustc when it is hung (attach to the process with gdb).

You may get more help posting on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues since I don't think this is an installation issue.

[asamolion]

@ehuss
As a matter of fact, I do have ESET installed. However, it is not running while I am trying to run this.

[ehuss]

Ah, in that case it is probably rust-lang/rust#56736. I suspect it's still finding the libesets_pac.so shared library even if it is not "on". There's some more information in that issue about what's going on.

[asamolion]

Okay, so here is how I solved the problem.

I opened the file /etc/ld.so.preload and deleted the line containing libesetspac.so. So now the /etc/ld.so.preload file is empty but my Rust programs are compiling correctly.

Thanks @ehuss.