Path must be a string. Received undefined

[mahendrapatel]

i run a simple hello world program which run in browser perfectly but when
deploying in android mobile it case the following error
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[INFO] : Packaging application: /home/ankit/Android/Sdk/build-tools/24.0.0/aapt "package" "-f" "-m" "-J" "/home/ankit/Appcelerator_Studio_Workspace/Hello/build/android/gen" "-M" "/home/ankit/Appcelerator_Studio_Workspace/Hello/build/android/AndroidManifest.xml" "-A" "/home/ankit/Appcelerator_Studio_Workspace/Hello/build/android/bin/assets" "-S" "/home/ankit/Appcelerator_Studio_Workspace/Hello/build/android/res" "-I" "/home/ankit/Android/Sdk/platforms/android-23/android.jar" "-F" "/home/ankit/Appcelerator_Studio_Workspace/Hello/build/android/bin/app.ap_" "--auto-add-overlay" "--extra-packages" "ti.modules.titanium.ui:android.support.v7.appcompat:android.support.v7.cardview" "-S" "/tmp/116611-26251-glfet8.13w744pldi/res" "-S" "/tmp/116611-26251-2govyk.i30ytoi529/res" "-S" "/tmp/116611-26251-1coto6l.3oour9hpvi/res"
2016-07-11T11:10:27.847Z | ERROR | An uncaught exception was thrown!
Path must be a string. Received undefined
2016-07-11T11:10:27.848Z | ERROR | Path must be a string. Received undefined

[ashcoding]

How are you compiling the code via?

[cb1kenobi]

We are tracking this issue in our official bug tracking system. Please follow progress here: https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/CLI-1056.

[bahinapster]

Hello ,

i just removed node and reinstall it , works fine now.

[Mashqur]

I have one project which is running but the new one is not running. Facing this error. If node version is the cause then older app should not run right? I am getting confused. Because in my machine node version is 6.X.X

[cb1kenobi]

@Mashqur It's definitely not the Node.js version that's the problem. In Node.js, if you do path.join(something, 'foo') and something is null, undefined, or an empty string, it'll throw that error. I have no idea exactly which path.join() call is the culprit. There are hundreds of path.join() calls.

The first thing I would do is look at both your Appc CLI and Titanium CLI config files and see if there are any settings that look like paths that are undefined, null, or empty and fixing them. You can find them at ~/.appcelerator/appc-cli.json and ~/.titanium/config.json.

[ewanharris]

Hey @Mashqur! So this happens because of some changes in Node.js that affect 5.5.1.GA. If your app needs to stay on SDK 5.5.1.GA try to downgrade your Node version to a 4.X version, otherwise upgrading to SDK 6.0.1.GA should fix the issue.