Yes we have made some investigations, but there is no obvious difference between the security on a working LPAR and that on a non-working LPAR. Ideally we would like IBM to say "that means the security on x is incorrect" but at the moment they seem to have little or no clue as to what causes this sort of error. I have seen the "uid must be an unsigned int" error reported for npm on other platforms, but cannot find out any reason for it other than it being fixed by updates...and v2.11.3 is pretty new.

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Sent: 14 October 2015 14:34
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Node and NPM don't work properly on some LPARS?

Kevin

It sounds like a security problem

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Actually it is not just global installs that fail. Local installs
also fail with the same error.

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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin
Turner
Sent: 14 October 2015 14:21
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WEB400] Node and NPM don't work properly on some LPARS?

We have a very frustrating, irritating and puzzling issue with node and
npm on some of our LPARS. On some, both node and npm work as expected.
On others it doesn't work at all. There does not seem to be any
difference between the LPARS that do and do not work, but clearly
there must be something amiss under the covers. We have reported it
to IBM, who have released further updates for us to try (SI58114 -
doesn't say what they are fixing or changing) but still no dice.

The problem is that we simply cannot install any packages globally. NPM
barfs for anything we try. For example:

npm install jsdoc -g

returns
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'install', 'jsdoc',
'-g' ]
2 info using npm@2.11.3
3 info using node@v0.12.7
27 verbose stack TypeError: uid must be an unsigned int
27 verbose stack at TypeError (native)
27 verbose stack at Object.fs.chown (fs.js:984:11)
27 verbose stack at
/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/Node/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/chownr/chownr.js:12:43
27 verbose stack at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:95:15)


The ": uid must be an unsigned int " is persistent, regardless of
package :(


Anyone else have this type of issue? IBM are able to provide us with
anything useful to help.

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