npm install hang

Hello All, I'm unable to get npm installed correctly in my laravel project. I'm running laravel on a vagrant box (ubuntu-trusty-64). When I run 'npm install' I get the first error in my pastebin (linked below). I then found somewhere below that I should run it without symlinks when using a vagrant box on a windows host os so I then ran 'npm install --no-bin-links' and I was still getting the first error. So then with some help I ran 'rm -rf node_modules' then ran the 'npm install --no-bin-links' and it appears to work but hangs see second half of the pastebin.

Please help!

pastebin: https://pastebin.com/wuRkjqi6

curtiplas

8 years ago

Level 2

Just to update everyone on the status, I completely removed npm and reinstalled it following:

https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions

for node.js 8

I then ran 'sudo npm install --no-bin-links --verbose' directly from the host vm via virtualbox bypassing the vagrant ssh; but it still bombs out on me; this time with an error. but still surrounding fsevents.

27990 info lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: [email protected]
27991 verbose unlock done using /home/vagrant/.npm/_locks/staging-71408633a969dee2.lock for /home/vagrant/projects/MusekClub/node_modules/.staging
27992 verbose stack Error: ETXTBSY: text file is busy, rmdir '/home/vagrant/projects/MusekClub/node_modules/fsevents/node_modules'
27993 verbose cwd /home/vagrant/projects/MusekClub
27994 verbose Linux 3.13.0-125-generic
27995 verbose argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "--no-bin-links" "--verbose"
27996 verbose node v8.2.1
27997 verbose npm  v5.3.0
27998 error path /home/vagrant/projects/MusekClub/node_modules/fsevents/node_modules
27999 error code ETXTBSY
28000 error errno -26
28001 error syscall rmdir
28002 error ETXTBSY: text file is busy, rmdir '/home/vagrant/projects/MusekClub/node_modules/fsevents/node_modules'
28003 verbose exit [ -26, true ]

curtiplas

8 years ago

Level 2

Just an update. I completely rebuilt the vagrant box from scratch and tried again. same issue.

Here is the cmd ln output:

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/projects/MusekClub$ sudo npm install
npm ERR! path /home/vagrant/projects/MusekClub/node_modules/fsevents/build/Release/.deps/User/eshanker/Code/fsevents/lib
npm ERR! code ETXTBSY
npm ERR! errno -26
npm ERR! syscall rmdir
npm ERR! ETXTBSY: text file is busy, rmdir '/home/vagrant/projects/MusekClub/node_modules/fsevents/build/Release/.deps/Users/eshanker/Code/fsevents/lib'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!    /home/vagrant/.npm/_logs/2017-08-09T12_45_58_590Z-debug.log

curtiplas

8 years ago

Level 2

Okay broke out each of the devDependencies and installed them one by one... looks like the error is getting called by the dependency.

"laravel-mix": "^1.0"

Any thoughts on how to get around this?

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Jaytee

8 years ago

Best Answer

Level 39

It probably won't make a difference but try installing with yarn.

I read somewhere about installing Grunt helped fix an issue similar to this.

sudo npm install -g grunt

Let me know how any of these go.

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curtiplas

8 years ago

Level 2

Well installing grunt didn't help at all. However, I installed yarn and instead of bombing out at fsevents it reads it as an optional dependency.

I get the following:

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/projects/MusekClub$ sudo yarn install
yarn install v0.27.5
    Resolving packages...
    Fetching packages...
warning [email protected]: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "[email protected]" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check.
Excluding it from installation.
    Linking dependencies...
    Building fresh packages...
Done in 67.15s.

What's better is it looks like it actually works as I'm now able to run yarn dev.

Thank you so much!!!

Jaytee

8 years ago

Level 39

I did a little more research on the fsevents error. It's quite common, so i wouldn't worry about it as i believe your dependencies don't rely on this.

I've made the switch to yarn now anyway, so you may aswell. It still does the same as NPM but i find it a little faster and in this case, less strict.

Best of luck.

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