0.9.42 not starting on OSX

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With a fresh install:

~/htdocs/pimatic-app
❯ sudo ./node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
13:31:42.104 2018-04-16 Monday
13:31:43.203 [pimatic] Starting pimatic version 0.9.42
13:31:43.300 [pimatic] Installing database package sqlite3, this can take some minutes
13:31:43.331 [pimatic] An uncaught exception occurred: Error: spawn ./node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js ENOENT
13:31:43.331 [pimatic]>    at _errnoException (util.js:999:13)
13:31:43.331 [pimatic]>    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:201:19)
13:31:43.331 [pimatic]>    at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:389:16)
13:31:43.331 [pimatic]>    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:152:19)
13:31:43.331 [pimatic]>    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:703:11)
13:31:43.331 [pimatic]>    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:194:16)
13:31:43.331 [pimatic]>    at bootstrap_node.js:618:3
13:31:43.331 [pimatic]> This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!
13:31:43.333 [pimatic] exiting...

ppm.js does not exist:

~/htdocs/pimatic-app
❯ ls ./node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js
./node_modules/pimatic/ppm.js

Node is v9:

❯ node -v
v9.3.0

Install node in version 4.6.2 please and try again.

Its also written in the documentation: https://pimatic.org/guide/getting-started/installation/

You need to install or update to version 4 of Node.js (version 4.6.2 at the time of writing). Earlier versions of Node.js aren’t supported.

If the installation of sqlite still runs in errors, try to install it manually from the pimatic-app folder

npm install sqlite@3.1.8

It’s node 9 already. Going back to 7 would be possible, but not to 4

Pimatic won’t run with 7. Use a VM or a Docker container with Debian instead

Downgraded to 4.9 but still not working:

~/htdocs
❯ rm -rf pimatic-app

~/htdocs
❯ /usr/bin/env node --version
v4.9.1

~/htdocs
❯ mkdir pimatic-app
npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production
npm WARN deprecated nomnom@1.8.1: Package no longer supported. Contact support@npmjs.com for more info.
pimatic@0.9.42 pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic
├── basic-auth@1.1.0
├── cookie-parser@1.4.3 (cookie-signature@1.0.6, cookie@0.3.1)
├── connect-timeout@1.9.0 (on-headers@1.0.1, ms@2.0.0, on-finished@2.3.0, http-errors@1.6.3)
├── cross-spawn@5.1.0 (shebang-command@1.2.0, lru-cache@4.1.2, which@1.3.0)
├── method-override@2.3.10 (methods@1.1.2, vary@1.1.2, parseurl@1.3.2, debug@2.6.9)
├── cookie-session@1.3.2 (on-headers@1.0.1, cookies@0.7.1, debug@2.6.9)
├── logrotate-stream@0.2.5 (byt@0.1.0, log-rotate@0.2.7, optimist@0.6.1)
├── body-parser@1.18.2 (content-type@1.0.4, bytes@3.0.0, depd@1.1.2, on-finished@2.3.0, http-errors@1.6.3, qs@6.5.1, debug@2.6.9, iconv-lite@0.4.19, type-is@1.6.16, raw-body@2.3.2)
├── socket.io@1.7.4 (object-assign@4.1.0, socket.io-adapter@0.5.0, debug@2.3.3, has-binary@0.1.7, socket.io-parser@2.3.1, engine.io@1.8.5, socket.io-client@1.7.4)
├── jsonlint@1.6.2 (nomnom@1.8.1, JSV@4.0.2)
└── request-promise@2.0.1 (bluebird@2.11.0, request@2.85.0, lodash@4.17.5)

~/htdocs
❯ cd pimatic-app

~/htdocs/pimatic-app
❯ ls node_modules
pimatic

~/htdocs/pimatic-app
❯ ./node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
module.js:327
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'fs-extra'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at /Users/andig/Documents/htdocs/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/fs.extra/fs.extra.js:5:17
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/andig/Documents/htdocs/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/fs.extra/fs.extra.js:39:2)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)

I’m about to give up- this used to work

Could you please delete the pimatic-app folder and start a clean install with admin/root rights.

Absolutely no change in result when going through these steps:

~/htdocs
❯ rm -rf pimatic-app

~/htdocs
❯ mkdir pimatic-app

~/htdocs
❯ sudo npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production
npm WARN deprecated nomnom@1.8.1: Package no longer supported. Contact support@npmjs.com for more info.
pimatic@0.9.42 pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic
├── basic-auth@1.1.0
├── cookie-parser@1.4.3 (cookie-signature@1.0.6, cookie@0.3.1)
├── connect-timeout@1.9.0 (ms@2.0.0, on-headers@1.0.1, on-finished@2.3.0, http-errors@1.6.3)
├── method-override@2.3.10 (methods@1.1.2, vary@1.1.2, parseurl@1.3.2, debug@2.6.9)
├── cookie-session@1.3.2 (on-headers@1.0.1, cookies@0.7.1, debug@2.6.9)
├── cross-spawn@5.1.0 (shebang-command@1.2.0, lru-cache@4.1.2, which@1.3.0)
├── body-parser@1.18.2 (content-type@1.0.4, bytes@3.0.0, depd@1.1.2, on-finished@2.3.0, qs@6.5.1, http-errors@1.6.3, debug@2.6.9, iconv-lite@0.4.19, type-is@1.6.16, raw-body@2.3.2)
├── logrotate-stream@0.2.5 (log-rotate@0.2.7, byt@0.1.0, optimist@0.6.1)
├── socket.io@1.7.4 (object-assign@4.1.0, socket.io-adapter@0.5.0, has-binary@0.1.7, debug@2.3.3, socket.io-parser@2.3.1, engine.io@1.8.5, socket.io-client@1.7.4)
├── jsonlint@1.6.2 (nomnom@1.8.1, JSV@4.0.2)
└── request-promise@2.0.1 (bluebird@2.11.0, request@2.85.0, lodash@4.17.5)

Does your user has administrative rights? Is the fs.extra package in place? Could you try to reinstall it from the pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/ folder?

Hi Paul,

see the output above- fs-extra is not being installed when following install instructions. Since using sudo it does have admin rights, otherwise not.

After installing fs-extra manually the next dependency is missing:

~/htdocs
❯ sudo pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/pimatic.js
module.js:327
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'mkdirp'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at /Users/andig/Documents/htdocs/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/fs.extra/fs.copy-recursive.js:6:18
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/andig/Documents/htdocs/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/fs.extra/fs.copy-recursive.js:96:2)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)

It seems as if the install procedure does not resolve (all) dependencies for whatever reasons (or the dependencies are not properly declared)?

Did you try a pimatic install also with “sudo”?

It seems that the dependencies aren’t resolved recursively, as they should.

Yes, a few posts earlier I’ve tried sudo npm… no change.

Funny enough fs.extra is present (if not fs-extra):

~/htdocs
❯ ls pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/node_modules
basic-auth         coffee-script      cross-spawn        fs.extra           jsonlint           moment             socket.io
bluebird           colors             daemon             gethub             knex               npm                source-map-support
body-parser        connect-timeout    date-format-lite   human-format       lodash             relaxed-json       string
byline             cookie-parser      decl-api           i18n               logrotate-stream   request-promise    winston
cassert            cookie-session     express            jayschema          method-override    semver

PS.: really appreciate your support!!!

Yes, but the mkdirp package is a dependency of fs.extra and should be located under /fs.extra/node_modules/

What is your npm version? I hope 2.x

Yes it is since downgrading to node 4.9:

❯ npm -v
2.15.11

I still have the suspicion that npm doesn’t install the dependencies correctly. I’ll try to wipe homebrew’s node installation…

Did you get your installation up n running?

I gave up as also refreshing node via homebrew didn’t help

Did you try with node 4.6.2 as suggested in my first reply?

I haven’t found a way to do so on OSX. And with all due respect- if 4.9 is not good enough I’d also be happy to give up

Ok, seems you final push did it. Since I’ve noticed that node_modules/pimatic/node_modules/fs.extra did not contain another node_modules (which it should) and it wasn’t created on reinstall I’ve wiped my global npm folder and started yet again.

And guess what: now child dependencies are being installed and upon starup compiling of sqlite starts.

Looks like some npm madness without any hint of an error message

Thanks,
Andreas

I’m using NVM on my Mac. you can easily switch between node versions with nvm use 4.

https://github.com/creationix/nvm