Infinite Loop with Docker / `npm -g install @angular/cli`

[moloch--]

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- [ ] feature request

Versions.

Node v8.3.0
NPM v5.3.0

OS: Docker buildpack-deps:jessie

Repro steps.

docker build

The log given by the failure.

RUN npm install -g @angular/cli

...removed...

> node-sass@4.5.3 postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

Building: /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js rebuild --verbose --libsass_ext= --libsass_cflags= --libsass_ldflags= --libsass_library=
gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
gyp verb cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node',
gyp verb cli   '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js',
gyp verb cli   'rebuild',
gyp verb cli   '--verbose',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ext=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_cflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_ldflags=',
gyp verb cli   '--libsass_library=' ]
gyp info using node-gyp@3.6.2
gyp info using node@8.3.0 | linux | x64
gyp verb command rebuild []
gyp verb command clean []
gyp verb clean removing "build" directory
gyp verb command configure []
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python2" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` succeeded python2 /usr/bin/python2
gyp verb check python version `/usr/bin/python2 -c "import platform; print(platform.python_version());"` returned: "2.7.9\n"
gyp verb get node dir no --target version specified, falling back to host node version: 8.3.0
gyp verb command install [ '8.3.0' ]
gyp verb install input version string "8.3.0"
gyp verb install installing version: 8.3.0
gyp verb install --ensure was passed, so won't reinstall if already installed
gyp WARN EACCES user "undefined" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/8.3.0"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/node-sass/.node-gyp"
gyp verb tmpdir == cwd automatically will remove dev files after to save disk space
gyp verb command install [ '8.3.0' ]
gyp verb install input version string "8.3.0"
gyp verb install installing version: 8.3.0
gyp verb install --ensure was passed, so won't reinstall if already installed
gyp verb install version not already installed, continuing with install 8.3.0
gyp verb ensuring nodedir is created /usr/local/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/node-sass/.node-gyp/8.3.0
gyp WARN EACCES user "nobody" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/node-sass/.node-gyp/8.3.0"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/node_modules/node-sass/.node-gyp"
gyp verb tmpdir == cwd automatically will remove dev files after to save disk space
gyp verb command install [ '8.3.0' ]
gyp verb install input version string "8.3.0"

...repeating infinitely...

Note RUN npm install -g node-gyp seems to work fine.

Desired functionality.

Installs properly

Mention any other details that might be useful.

N/A

[rhuiser]

Having same issue.

[TravisFabel]

I am also having the same issue.

[daBishMan]

Same here

[treeder]

workaround is here: nodejs/node-gyp#1236 (comment)

[moloch--]

Okay the nodejs/node-gyp#1236 trick/workaround seems to fix it:

USER node
RUN mkdir /home/node/.npm-global
ENV PATH=/home/node/.npm-global/bin:$PATH
ENV NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/home/node/.npm-global
RUN npm install -g @angular/cli

[daBishMan]

Node Sass could not find a binding for your current environment: Linux 64-bit with Node.js 8.x

Found bindings for the following environments:

• Linux 64-bit with Node.js 7.x

when I am running when I try to launch ng tests using PhantomJS I get the above error? anyone able to shed some light on why? or how I can resolve it

I attempted node-sass rebuild and that did not work

[johanchouquet]

Same here. What I don't get is why there's no problem of user when using node 7.9.0.

For now, i'm keeping node 7.9.0.

[kirillgroshkov]

Same here!

[pstephenwille]

Same here, and I'm not using Docker on this project, but it is installed on my machine. Angular-cli should have installed as root:root

drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Nov 4 17:06 ./

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 3 16:02 ../

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 4 15:58 @angular/

drwxr-xr-x 14 nobody stephen 4096 Nov 3 16:02 angular-cli/

drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 4 17:06 firebase-tools/

drwxr-xr-x 12 nobody stephen 4096 Nov 3 16:12 npm/

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 36864 Nov 4 17:06 .staging/

drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 4 15:40 webpack/

This fixed it though: sudo chown -R root:root .

[muzfr7]

Same on MacOS High Sierra (node v8.9.4 and npm 5.6.0) below statement looping for more than 2 hours now..
gyp WARN install version not already installed,, continuing with install 8.9.4

Just exited out of installation using Control+C and ng -v works fine :)

[PhilThurston]

This bug is still reproducible on Ubuntu Xenial and Debian Jessie. I appreciate that there is a workaround but shouldn't the issue remain open since there is no actual fix just workarounds?

For those coming from google to quickly get around this use this command to install:

npm install -g @angular/cli --unsafe

the --unsafe gets it to complete without the loop

[Epicnessism]

I see that this thread is now closed. Has there been an actual fix or is everyone still just using the --unsafe command? I got a similar error when installing today. The unsafe command fixed the infinite loop issue for me as well.