Cannot npm run dev nor npm install because of different versions of esbuild

[5ucur]

I don't know much about this software, I was trying to npm run dev in a project but there were issues so I thought a reinstall would help, but it kept happening so I deleted node_modules to reinstall from a blank slate. Every time it gave me such an error:

npm ERR! /home/username/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/install.js:94
npm ERR!     throw new Error(`Expected ${JSON.stringify("0.16.12")} but got ${JSON.stringify(stdout)}`);
npm ERR!           ^
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Error: Expected "0.16.12" but got "0.17.3"
npm ERR!     at validateBinaryVersion (/home/username/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/install.js:94:11)
npm ERR!     at /home/username/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/install.js:241:5
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Node.js v19.4.0

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/username/.npm/_logs/2023-01-23T23_05_19_669Z-debug-0.log

I am unable to take a look at this problematic install.js file as the node_modules folder disappears.

The whole log is below. but unfortunately the Details section on GitHub does not seem to support code block formatting. It tried to group all the lines into one paragraph so I had to separate them one by one, and put each into code lines as :link: would become 🔗 for example. See lower comment by evanw for how to avoid this behaviour with Markdown.

Irregardless, the whole log as well as the error above are completely the same as they were output, except for changing the username and path to the project.

Whole log here

0 verbose cli /usr/bin/node /usr/bin/npm
1 info using npm@8.19.2
2 info using node@v19.4.0
3 timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 0ms
4 timing config:load:defaults Completed in 3ms
5 timing config:load:file:/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc Completed in 3ms
6 timing config:load:builtin Completed in 3ms
7 timing config:load:cli Completed in 4ms
8 timing config:load:env Completed in 0ms
9 timing config:load:file:/home/username/path/to/project/.npmrc Completed in 1ms
10 timing config:load:project Completed in 2ms
11 timing config:load:file:/home/username/.npmrc Completed in 0ms
12 timing config:load:user Completed in 0ms
13 timing config:load:file:/usr/etc/npmrc Completed in 0ms
14 timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms
15 timing config:load:validate Completed in 0ms
16 timing config:load:credentials Completed in 2ms
17 timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
18 timing config:load Completed in 18ms
19 timing npm:load:configload Completed in 18ms
20 timing npm:load:mkdirpcache Completed in 2ms
21 timing npm:load:mkdirplogs Completed in 1ms
22 verbose title npm install
23 verbose argv "install"
24 timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 2ms
25 timing config:load:flatten Completed in 5ms
26 timing npm:load:display Completed in 8ms
27 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:/home/username/.npm/_logs
28 verbose logfile /home/username/.npm/_logs/2023-01-23T23_05_19_669Z-debug-0.log
29 timing npm:load:logFile Completed in 9ms
30 timing npm:load:timers Completed in 0ms
31 timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
32 timing npm:load Completed in 41ms
33 timing arborist:ctor Completed in 2ms
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35 silly logfile done cleaning log files
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41 silly fetch manifest postcss@^8.4.21
42 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/postcss 8ms (cache hit)
43 silly fetch manifest vite@^4.0.4
44 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/vite 15ms (cache hit)
45 silly fetch manifest @types/node@>= 14
46 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@types%2fnode 18ms (cache hit)
47 silly fetch manifest less@*
48 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/less 7ms (cache hit)
49 silly fetch manifest sass@*
50 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/sass 8ms (cache hit)
51 silly fetch manifest stylus@*
52 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/stylus 17ms (cache hit)
53 silly fetch manifest sugarss@*
54 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/sugarss 5ms (cache hit)
55 silly fetch manifest terser@^5.4.0
56 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/terser 7ms (cache hit)
57 silly placeDep ROOT flowbite@1.6.3 REPLACE for: projectname@0.0.0 want: ^1.6.3
58 silly placeDep ROOT postcss@8.4.21 REPLACE for: projectname@0.0.0 want: ^8.4.21
59 silly placeDep ROOT vite@4.0.4 REPLACE for: projectname@0.0.0 want: ^4.0.4
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245 info run esbuild@0.16.12 postinstall { code: 1, signal: null }
246 timing reify:rollback:createSparse Completed in 352ms
247 timing reify:rollback:retireShallow Completed in 0ms
248 timing command:install Completed in 4034ms
249 verbose stack Error: command failed
249 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/promise-spawn/lib/index.js:63:27)
249 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
249 verbose stack     at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1098:16)
249 verbose stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:304:5)
250 verbose pkgid esbuild@0.16.12
251 verbose cwd /home/username/path/to/project
252 verbose Linux 6.1.7-arch1-1
253 verbose node v19.4.0
254 verbose npm  v8.19.2
255 error code 1
256 error path /home/username/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild
257 error command failed
258 error command sh -c -- node install.js
259 error /home/username/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/install.js:94
259 error     throw new Error(`Expected ${JSON.stringify("0.16.12")} but got ${JSON.stringify(stdout)}`);
259 error           ^
259 error
259 error Error: Expected "0.16.12" but got "0.17.3"
259 error     at validateBinaryVersion (/home/username/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/install.js:94:11)
259 error     at /home/username/path/to/project/node_modules/esbuild/install.js:241:5
259 error
259 error Node.js v19.4.0
260 verbose exit 1
261 timing npm Completed in 4209ms
262 verbose unfinished npm timer reify 1674515119841
263 verbose unfinished npm timer reify:build 1674515122977
264 verbose unfinished npm timer build 1674515122978
265 verbose unfinished npm timer build:deps 1674515122978
266 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall 1674515123000
267 verbose unfinished npm timer build:run:postinstall:node_modules/esbuild 1674515123000
268 verbose code 1
269 error A complete log of this run can be found in:
269 error     /home/username/.npm/_logs/2023-01-23T23_05_19_669Z-debug-0.log

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I've tried things as in #1711 (comment):

1. if I run npm i esbuild@0.16.12, it complains: Error: Expected "0.17.4" but got "0.17.3";
   • I hoped this one would work as I'm telling it to install the version it's expecting in the error up on top;
2. if I run npm i esbuild@0.13.3 (as in the comment), it complains: Error: Expected "0.13.3" but got "0.17.3";
   • I ran this one just as an experiment, but it does not want to install even a much older version;
3. if I run npm i esbuild@0.17.3, it complains: Error: Expected "0.16.17" but got "0.17.3";
   • I hoped this one would work as I'm telling it to go with the current version on the machine;
   • this one also appears if I try to run npm update;
   • interestingly it's a different 0.16.* version this time;
4. if I then run npm i esbuild@0.16.17, it complains: Error: Expected "0.16.17" but got "0.17.3";
   • I hoped this one would work as I'm telling it to install the version it's expecting in the previous error;
   • yet this is the same error as the previous error;
5. if I run npm i esbuild@0.17.4, which is the newest version, it complains: Error: Expected "0.17.4" but got "0.17.3";
   • I hoped this one would work as I'm telling it to install the newest version;
   • this one also appears if I try to install from the .tar.gz file of 0.17.4.

I am on Arch Linux, fully updated at the moment, 6.1.7-arch1-1.

• running pacman -Q | grep esbuild gives esbuild 0.17.3-1, as expected because every error says got "0.17.3";
• running npm show esbuild gives latest: 0.17.4 among other things, but as written above, I am unable get the latest version;
• running npm-check-updates does not detect esbuild being newer, only other software, which cannot be updated because of the error above.

This happens in any project. Everything worked three days ago and npm show esbuild says the latest version came out two days ago.

Is this a problem with the software or with my own inexperience with it? What steps should I take to make these projects usable again? Or is this out of my control, maybe something that'll sort itself through time and updates?

If you need any other outputs, please tell me which commands you need me to run, and excuse any problems with my English as it's not my native language.

[hyrious]

Could you check if there is an env ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH? If set, esbuild will use that binary instead of the one in node_modules then the postinstall script in esbuild will find the version mismatch.

I guess this is probably caused by your system level esbuild was installed by pacman, which sets that env variable.

[evanw]

Yes, this sounds like another problem caused by this. They really should not be doing that. ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH is a low-level environment variable that only exists to be able to debug esbuild using a locally-built Go executable. It's not supposed to be forced on users like this. I may have to remove ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH so I stop getting these bug reports (from Arch Linux users?). It will make debugging esbuild harder, but that's life. Hmm.

I'm not sure what you should do about this. I'm not at all familiar with Arch Linux. If possible, removing the package with that shell script that set the ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH environment variable should fix it. If that's not possible, you could also try manually erasing ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH before running esbuild.

unfortunately the Details section on GitHub does not seem to support code block formatting

Markdown has a strange quirk where if you mix HTML and Markdown, there has to be a blank line in between the HTML and the Markdown (or vice versa). So like this:

<details><summary>...</summary>

```
    ...
```

</details>

not like this:

<details><summary>...</summary>
```
    ...
```
</details>

[5ucur]

Could you check if there is an env ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH? If set, esbuild will use that binary instead of the one in node_modules then the postinstall script in esbuild will find the version mismatch.

Running echo $ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH returns /usr/bin/esbuild.

I guess this is probably caused by your system level esbuild was installed by pacman, which sets that env variable.

I don't recall installing this software on my own, if pacman installed it then it must have been a dependency of something.

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I'm not sure what you should do about this. I'm not at all familiar with Arch Linux.

A friend has complained about similar problems, on a Windows machine. I've asked them to run npm install and send me the output, as I'm suspecting they might be facing the same issue, though we cannot tell until they send me the output. But it's just a small possibility that it's not just Arch Linux.

If possible, removing the package with that shell script that set the ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH environment variable should fix it. If that's not possible, you could also try manually erasing ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH before running esbuild.

Running pkgfile esbuild, which should return which package contains esbuild, returns nothing. But running pacman -R esbuild does prompt for removal of the package. I will update after trying that, hopefully I don't mess up my system more. Looking into it more, it seems that esbuild is merely a make dependency for webcord, so it'll probably not be an issue.

And thanks for the info about the markdown-html stuff, and editing my comment yourself!

[5ucur]

Yes, that was it. I ran yay -Yc to remove make dependencies and freed up about half a gig, including esbuild 0.17.3-1. A reboot later, npm commands work and echo $ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH returns nothing.

Solved! Thanks for your assistance.

[dundee]

FYI: AUR package has been just fixed (0.17.5-2).