OK thanks. As it happens we just regressed one of the duff LPARS back to V0.10.35 and it works fine again (although it completely screwed npm so I guess we messed up somewhere).
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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: 15 October 2015 14:17
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Node and NPM don't work properly on some LPARS?
Issues like this is why I've started saving off Node versions so I can have multiple versions running on the same machine at the same time.
Here's my approach:
To save the currently installed Node.js to a tar file do the following:
$ cd /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData
$ tar -cvf /QOpenSys/node-0.10.??.tar Node/
Then when you want to load that version of Node you use
$ cd /QOpenSys/home/aaron/space1
$ tar -
x
vf /QOpenSys/node-0.10.??.tar
Then alter your PATH to have the new location at the beginning:
$ export PATH=/QOpenSys/home/aaron/space1/Node/bin:$PATH
Some of my syntax/paths might be off, but it is the general idea I wanted to convey. The tough part is you need to catch each version of Node.js before installing the next version.
Aaron Bartell
litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Kevin Turner <kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
OK - well we have reported two main issues:
1) A node child process should not just end unless it is a) killed or
b) it runs process.exit()
Our simple test code shows this failing in our duff LPARS, but OK on
others with earlier versions of node
2) When "npm install" runs it caches its packages in your local .npm
folder. After that, it cannot access its own cache and every
subsequent "npm install" fails with "uid must be an unsigned integer".
You have to run "npm cache clear" before every install to make it work!
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