Nx operations hangs indefinitely

[JbIPS]

Current Behavior

I'm trying to add Nx to my TS monorepo.

On first try, I installed it (pnpm i nx) but any run would hang on indefinitely. So I removed it, tried to reinstall it but now it hangs at postinstall

node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.5.0_@swc+core@1.7.10/node_modules/nx: Running postinstall script

I tried other approach like pnpm dlx nx@latest init or even npx nx@latest init but it hangs at

 NX   🧐 Checking dependencies 

Also tried pnpm dlx create-nx-workspace from scratch but it hangs on the second step

Creating your workspace in test-nx

Expected Behavior

Inits operations should complete gracefully

GitHub Repo

No response

Steps to Reproduce

1. pnpm dlx create-nx-workspace

Nx Report

❯ pnpm dlx nx report                      
Packages: +115
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Progress: resolved 123, reused 111, downloaded 4, added 115, done
.cache/pnpm/dlx/ogenweua4lihpne4pbq6bewrt4/1915f46eda6-1d714/node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.6.0/node_modules/nx: Running postinstall script, done in 373ms

(...and nothing for at least 20min)

Failure Logs

No response

Package Manager Version

PNPM v9.7.0 or NPM v10.5.0

Operating System

• macOS
• Linux
• Windows
• Other (Please specify)

Additional Information

A common logs I see with NODE_DEBUG=* on all the nx command is

MODULE 121282: RELATIVE: requested: ./error-types from parent.id /home/******/node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.5.7_@swc+core@1.7.11/nod
e_modules/nx/src/project-graph/build-project-graph.js
MODULE 121282: looking for ["/home/*******/node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.5.7_@swc+core@1.7.11/node_modules/nx/src/project-graph"]
NET 121243: pipe true /tmp/plugin121243-0.sock
NET 121243: connect: attempting to connect to /tmp/plugin121243-0.sock:NaN (addressType: NaN)
MODULE 121282: Module._load REQUEST ./utils/project-configuration-utils parent: /home/*********/node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.5.7_@swc+
core@1.7.11/node_modules/nx/src/project-graph/build-project-graph.js
MODULE 121282: RELATIVE: requested: ./utils/project-configuration-utils from parent.id /home/*******/node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.5.
7_@swc+core@1.7.11/node_modules/nx/src/project-graph/build-project-graph.js
MODULE 121282: looking for ["/home/*********/node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.5.7_@swc+core@1.7.11/node_modules/nx/src/project-graph"]
NET 121243: createConnection [
  { path: '/tmp/plugin121243-1.sock' },
  [Function (anonymous)],
  [Symbol(normalizedArgs)]: true
]

The addressType: NaN caught my eyes but I don't know if it's relevant. But this logs keeps repeating until it hangs on

MODULE 121275: looking for ["/home/*******/node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.5.7_@swc+core@1.7.11/node_modules/nx/src/plugins/js"]
MODULE 121275: Module._load REQUEST child_process parent: /home/*******/node_modules/.pnpm/nx@19.5.7_@swc+core@1.7.11/node_modul
es/nx/src/plugins/js/index.js
MODULE 121275: load built-in module child_process
STREAM 121243: push <Buffer 7b 22 74 79 70 65 22 3a 22 6c 6f 61 64 2d 72 65 73 75 6c 74 22 2c 22 70 61 79 6c 6f 61 64 22 3a 7b 22 6e 61 6d 65 22 3a 2
2 6e 78 2f 6a 73 2f 64 65 70 ... 205 more bytes>
TIMER 121243: unenroll: list empty
STREAM 121243: maybeReadMore read 0
STREAM 121243: read 0
STREAM 121243: need readable true
STREAM 121243: length less than watermark true
STREAM 121243: do read
NET 121243: _read - n 16384 isConnecting? false hasHandle? true

I tried emptying /tmp, restarting, nx clean but the issue persists

[cefeboru]

Not sure if the issue is related, but I get a similar behavior when upgrading from NX 18 to NX 19. My installation gets stuck on the postinstall nx step forever. If I ignore the scripts when installing modules, subsequent nx commands get stuck as well.

Using:
Node v18.16.0
PNPM 8.12.1
OS Sonoma 14.4.1 (23E224)
Apple M1 Pro

[DanLatimer]

We have some members of our team experiencing this issue too, one reverted to the last version of nx we were on (19.2.3) to get around this fail to install. Would be great to get a fix for this.

[FrozenPandaz]

This occurs on create-nx-workspace for you? Which answers did you provide to the prompts? If possible, is there a repo that I can run nx init in to reproduce the issue?

Can you also see if any of these environment variables resolve the issue?

• NX_DAEMON=false
• NX_ISOLATE_PLUGINS=false

[JbIPS]

It try create-nx-workspace with the env vars, same result

❯ NX_DAEMON=false NX_ISOLATE_PLUGINS=false pnpm dlx create-nx-workspace
Packages: +56
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Progress: resolved 56, reused 55, downloaded 1, added 56, done

 NX   Let's create a new workspace [https://nx.dev/getting-started/intro]

✔ Where would you like to create your workspace? · test-nx
✔ Which stack do you want to use? · none
✔ Package-based monorepo, integrated monorepo, or standalone project? · integrated
✔ Which CI provider would you like to use? · gitlab

 NX   Creating your v19.6.1 workspace.

✔ Installing dependencies with pnpm
⠏ Creating your workspace in test-nx
[Hangs indefinitely...]

I tried to use what seems like basic option to remove complexity but nothing changed.

[blacksand]

I have the same problem, both create-nx-workspace and nx migrate stop responding at postinstall.

The last version that worked is v19.4.4

MacBookPro intel cpu
node: 20.16.0
pnpm: 9.6.0

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[tonivj5]

I've suffered from this issue in bitbucket pipelines... 😕 Sometimes it takes so many time to run postinstall

[Markus-Ende]

this is the same: #20270

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