ndb closes instantly after launch (Ubuntu)

[j-koziel]

I've installed it locally, globally and as a dev dependency but to no avail.

Tell us about your environment:

• ndb version: 1.1.5
• Platform / OS version: Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, window manager: bspwm, compositor: picom
• Node.js version: 16.15.0

What steps will reproduce the problem?

package.json file
{ "name": "natours", "version": "1.0.0", "description": "Learning node, express and mongoDB", "main": "app.js", "scripts": { "start": "nodemon server.js", "start:prod": "NODE_ENV=production nodemon server.js", "debug": "ndb server.js" }, "author": "Jonathan Koziel", "license": "ISC", "dependencies": { "dotenv": "^16.0.0", "express": "^4.17.3", "mongoose": "^5.13.14", "morgan": "^1.10.0", "slugify": "^1.6.5", "validator": "^13.7.0" }, "devDependencies": { "eslint": "^8.13.0", "eslint-config-airbnb": "^19.0.4", "eslint-config-prettier": "^8.5.0", "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.26.0", "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "^6.5.1", "eslint-plugin-node": "^11.1.0", "eslint-plugin-prettier": "^4.0.0", "eslint-plugin-react": "^7.29.4", "ndb": "^1.1.5", "prettier": "^2.6.2", "puppeteer-core": "^14.1.1" }, "engines": { "node": ">=10.0.0" } }

What is the expected result?
ndb should open and work

What happens instead?
ndb opens a window and disappears immediately after.
Video:

simplescreenrecorder-2022-05-22_09.36.32.mp4

When I use sudo no window opens but instead i get an error mentioned in a previous issue.
Error log:
sudo ndb server.js
events.js:291
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^

Error: read ECONNRESET
at Pipe.onStreamRead (internal/stream_base_commons.js:209:20)
Emitted 'error' event on Socket instance at:
at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:92:8)
at emitErrorAndCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:60:3)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:21) {
errno: 'ECONNRESET',
code: 'ECONNRESET',
syscall: 'read'
}

[davidsu]

+1

[AmritPant]

Hey,
I am also in Jonas's course, I also had a similar issue to fix this issue

It Is because Chrome cannot be run as root by default.
A workaround is to install ndb in a directory that doesn't require elevated permissions.

npm uninstall --location=global ndb // UNINSTALL IT

npm install --location=global --prefix=$HOME/.npm ndb // INSTALL IT ON SEPRATE DIRECTORY

vim ~/.bashrc // OPEN .bashrc file in any code editor .. ONLY if you are using bash or ZSH if you are using FISH then ~/.config/fish/config.fish

PATH=$PATH:"$HOME/.npm/bin". // Add the PATH VARIABLE TO .bashrc FILE

[j-koziel]

I tried doing that after I saw this comment on another issue (#312) but it did not work for me either.

I think i am just going to close this issue as I have made my return back to windows and it seems as if this package is no longer being maintained (#334)

[j-koziel]

Thanks for the suggestion 👍

[AmritPant]

@j-koziel Welcome