Re: Node and NPM don't work properly on some LPARS?

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

​What version of Node.js are you running?

​Can you create a gist of this file? /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/Node/
lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/chownr/chownr.js

Guessing it has something to do with chown's** colon portion of the parm.

Look at your profile's on each machine and whether they have a group
profile specified.

**http://linux.die.net/man/1/chown

Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:25 AM, 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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> 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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