Serverless 3.x installation fails in ADO release pipeline Ubuntu 20.04, Node 20.x all of a sudden

[sai097]

Issue description

I'm using ADO release pipeline to deploy a service to AWS using Serverless. The deployments started failing all of a sudden today without revealing much information about what exactly went wrong.

Versions:
ADO Agent job - Ubuntu 20.04
Node - 20.10.0
Serverless - 3.30.1

Below is the error message I can see in the step when I have two commands running npm install and sudo npm install serverless@3.30.1 -g

npm error code TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE
2024-12-16T18:03:18.7625035Z npm error TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format

Context

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[Rbanda52]

I am facing the same issue in my pipelines during the installation step of Serverless.
npm error code TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE
npm error TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format

[SThakur181]

I am also facing the same issue since today. It was working fine till 13 Feb.
Configuration it worked on 13th:
Node : 18.x
Serverless : 3.0.0

Now even this combination is not working. Tried with latest version too, same issues.

[czubocha]

@sai097 @Rbanda52 @SThakur181 I couldn’t reproduce the issue on my end. Could you confirm if this issue is specific to Serverless, or if you’re encountering the same error when installing other npm packages? I’ve noticed similar TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE issues being reported in multiple repositories on GitHub (1, 2), so it might not be directly related to Serverless.

[sai097]

@sai097 @Rbanda52 @SThakur181 I couldn’t reproduce the issue on my end. Could you confirm if this issue is specific to Serverless, or if you’re encountering the same error when installing other npm packages? I’ve noticed similar TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE issues being reported in multiple repositories on GitHub (1, 2), so it might not be directly related to Serverless.

@czubocha Thanks for checking. I only have one command in the ADO pipeline task which is the installation of Serverless through npm and I'm given this error. It certainly looks specific to Serverless in my case

[czubocha]

Thanks for the update, @sai097. While the error occurs during the installation of Serverless, it’s still unclear if this is specific to Serverless or a broader issue with npm or global installations. Could you try installing another package globally, such as npm install -g typescript or any other package, and let us know if the issue persists? This will help us determine whether it’s a Serverless-specific problem or related to the npm environment itself.

[sai097]

Thanks for the update, @sai097. While the error occurs during the installation of Serverless, it’s still unclear if this is specific to Serverless or a broader issue with npm or global installations. Could you try installing another package globally, such as npm install -g typescript or any other package, and let us know if the issue persists? This will help us determine whether it’s a Serverless-specific problem or related to the npm environment itself.

I've tried replacing Serverless with different packages like typescript and they seem to be working fine. You're right about it being unclear if it's specific to Serverless but an observation is that the task succeeds when I don't specify the serverless version like "npm install serverless" but fails when the version is specified in the command

[rohantor]

I am facing the same issue in AWS code pipelines during the installation step of Serverless.
npm error code TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE

npm error TAR_BAD_ARCHIVE: Unrecognized archive format

[sagrawal31]

This seems to be working for us after 14 hours of outage on AWS production environment

npm/cli#7986 (comment)

[czubocha]

Closing this as it’s caused by the ongoing npm registry outage: npm/cli#7986