Problem: error installing front-end dependencies in playbooks/archivematica

[jraddaoui]

Using master at 86d70f4 without any changes, vagrant up fails in the following task:

TASK [artefactual.archivematica-src : Install front-end dependencies] **********
changed: [am-local] => (item=/vagrant/src/archivematica/src/dashboard/frontend/appraisal-tab)
failed: [am-local] (item=/vagrant/src/archivematica/src/dashboard/frontend/transfer-browser) => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["npm", "install"], "delta": "0:00:16.859546", "end": "2018-03-20 15:43:55.774615", "item": "/vagrant/src/archivematica/src/dashboard/frontend/transfer-browser", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2018-03-20 15:43:38.915069", "stderr": "npm WARN prepublish-on-install As of npm@5, `prepublish` scripts are deprecated.\nnpm WARN prepublish-on-install Use `prepare` for build steps and `prepublishOnly` for upload-only.\nnpm WARN prepublish-on-install See the deprecation note in `npm help scripts` for more information.\nsh: 1: webpack: not found\nnpm ERR! file sh\nnpm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE\nnpm ERR! errno ENOENT\nnpm ERR! syscall spawn\nnpm ERR! transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish: `webpack --progress --colors --entry ./app.js`\nnpm ERR! spawn ENOENT\nnpm ERR! \nnpm ERR! Failed at the transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish script.\nnpm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.\n\nnpm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:\nnpm ERR!     /var/lib/archivematica/.npm/_logs/2018-03-20T15_43_55_756Z-debug.log", "stderr_lines": ["npm WARN prepublish-on-install As of npm@5, `prepublish` scripts are deprecated.", "npm WARN prepublish-on-install Use `prepare` for build steps and `prepublishOnly` for upload-only.", "npm WARN prepublish-on-install See the deprecation note in `npm help scripts` for more information.", "sh: 1: webpack: not found", "npm ERR! file sh", "npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE", "npm ERR! errno ENOENT", "npm ERR! syscall spawn", "npm ERR! transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish: `webpack --progress --colors --entry ./app.js`", "npm ERR! spawn ENOENT", "npm ERR! ", "npm ERR! Failed at the transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish 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!     /var/lib/archivematica/.npm/_logs/2018-03-20T15_43_55_756Z-debug.log"], "stdout": "\n> transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish /vagrant/src/archivematica/src/dashboard/frontend/transfer-browser\n> webpack --progress --colors --entry ./app.js", "stdout_lines": ["", "> transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish /vagrant/src/archivematica/src/dashboard/frontend/transfer-browser", "> webpack --progress --colors --entry ./app.js"]}

[jraddaoui]

It looks like a webpack issue, but we have almost the same dependencies and process in the appraisal-tab, where it works.

> transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish /vagrant/src/archivematica/src/dashboard/frontend/transfer-browser
> webpack --progress --colors --entry ./app.js

sh: 1: webpack: not found
npm ERR! file sh
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall spawn
npm ERR! transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish: `webpack --progress --colors --entry ./app.js`
npm ERR! spawn ENOENT
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the transfer-browse@0.0.0 prepublish script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

[jraddaoui]

Tried from within the vagrant box and it failed too. But, after clearing the npm cache (npm cache clean --force as the archivematica user), it worked.

[sevein]

Some users had the same issue in the Compose environment!
artefactual-labs/am#49

What would be a good way to fix this?

[jraddaoui]

Hi @sevein, I destroyed and created the entire Vagrant box and it worked this time. This seems like one of those random NPM issues. I'll keep digging.

[jraddaoui]

Upgrading to Node 9.x didn't make a difference.