webpack-cli@3.2.1 postinstall: `lightercollective`

[brunolm]

Describe the bug

Error on install.

What is the current behavior?

webpack-cli@3.2.1 postinstall: lightercollective

To Reproduce

1. npm i -D webpack-cli

Expected behavior
Successful install

Screenshots

Additional context
Docker image: node:8.14.0

https://stackoverflow.com/q/54133942/340760

[zslucky]

Same issue

[ematipico]

So this happens only when you try to install the package globally?

[brunolm]

No, I'm installing with -D (--save-dev)

[EricLambrecht]

I'm having the same issue. It works fine globally, but not locally (as a dev dependency using npm 6.6.0).

Edit: I was installing with --no-bin-links.

[fkranenburg]

We have the same issue here. Adding this dependency ourself helps for now, but this is not what we want.

[ematipico]

I can't reproduce it with the commands provided (I didn't use Docker).
Are all of you using Docker? Please provide as much information as possible, triaging the issue is not simple. Or provide a repository where we can replicate the issue.

[EricLambrecht]

I solved it after being able to install it without --no-bin-links, so the problem was definitely the fact that there was no bin link created for lightercollective.

[zslucky]

I used a docker image for building in jenkins, webpack-cli version 3.2.1 caused this issue

[EvsChen]

@ematipico I'm using yarn add --no-bin-links webpack-cli@3.2.1 and reproduced this issue. My yarn version is 1.1.3. Without --no-bin-links seems working fine. Also npm v5.6 seems working with npm install --no-bin-links webpack-cli@3.2.1. I'm on Mac.

Can you guys provide more info on your system (or docker image)? I think it may be an issue with the symlinks. Mac/windows etc. handle this differently.

[tamasd]

I have the same issue on Windows 10. I generate the packages.json file with gradle (kotlin-frontend). Adding lightercollective as a dependency or devDependency does not help.

[brunolm]

Command to repro, on an empty folder (error only happens if there's a volume)

docker run -v "${pwd}:/usr/src/app" -w /usr/src/app --rm node:8.14.0 bash -c "npm init -y && npm install webpack-cli@latest postinstall lightercollective"

Output:

> webpack-cli@3.2.1 postinstall /usr/src/app/node_modules/webpack-cli
> lightercollective

fs.js:646
  return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode);
                 ^

Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, open '/usr/src/app/node_modules/webpack-cli/package.json'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:551:33)
    at Object.Module._extensions..json (module.js:670:20)
    at Module.load (module.js:566:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:506:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:498:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:597:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/src/app/node_modules/webpack-cli/node_modules/lightercollective/index.js:5:15)
    at Module._compile (module.js:653:30)
npm WARN rollback Rolling back...
npm WARN rollback Rolling back...
npm WARN rollback Rolling back...
npm WARN rollback Rolling back...

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! webpack-cli@3.2.1 postinstall: `lightercollective`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the webpack-cli@3.2.1 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2019-01-22T12_10_25_574Z-debug.log

[fkranenburg]

I didn't use docker. I am on Windows and I was able to reproduce the problem. I have created a sample package.json here.

Then remove the npm-cache entirely (by removing the folder %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\).

After that run npm install --no-bin-links webpack-cli@3.2.1.

Node: 8.12.0
npm: 6.5.0

Hope this helps!

[Bluexin]

@tamasd temporary workaround is to specify an older version of webpack-cli manually in your dev dependencies :

kotlinFrontend {
    /* ... */

    npm {
        /* ... */
        devDependency("webpack-cli", "3.1.2") // cf https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/738
    }

    /* ... */
}