Prebuilt binaries for v1.7.0 have incorrect permissions

[rmg]

The permissions for the prebuilt linux binaries for v1.7.0 use 0750 instead of 0755 and seem to be preserving some random-ish looking uid/gid instead of using the uid/gid of the installing process.

The following were run inside a docker container (docker run --rm -it node:8.6.0 bash):

v1.7.0:

root@73ae751b8855:~# npm install grpc@1.7.0
root@73ae751b8855:~# ls -l node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64/
total 6468
-rwxr-x--- 1 255363 5000 6621262 Nov  1 20:12 grpc_node.node

v1.6.6:

root@73ae751b8855:~# npm install grpc@1.6.6
root@73ae751b8855:~# ls -l node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6184072 Oct  5 19:31 grpc_node.node

[glesage]

Would this be what is causing Error: Cannot find module '/app/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64/grpc_node.node' ?

[rmg]

It could definitely manifest as that, yes.

node may not be able to read the file which could bubble up as not loading and thus not finding.

[rmg]

The easy workaround for this is to add --build-from-source=grpc to your npm install.

[murgatroid99]

Thank you for reporting this. It looks like this was caused by changing the machine we built those files on. We should have a fix for this out today.

[6utt3rfly]

I spent several hours debugging a number of docker images that started having errors with rebuilding. Until PR #77 is published, I put a dependency in my package.json file with "grpc": "1.6.6",

[murgatroid99]

We have published grpc@1.7.1, which should fix this problem.

[badoet]

if 1.7.1 resolved this, @rmg lets close this issue?

[sa-adebayo]

grpc@1.7.1 didn't solve the problem for me, I had to go for 1.6.6 which worked as expected.

[GregorySmith92]

I haven't investigated this in depth but the 1.7.1 version did not solve the problem for me either.

[sa-adebayo]

@GregorySmith92 have you tried grpc@1.6.6?

[GregorySmith92]

@sa-adebayo Yeah I also used an older version to get around this problem

[murgatroid99]

I am having trouble reproducing this issue with 1.7.1. If you are experiencing this problem, please specify which binary exactly is getting downloaded. The name of the directory that directly contains the binary is what I need (for example, node-v57-linux-x64 in the original question)

In addition, can you please try completely removing and re-installing the package, to ensure that the new binary is actually getting downloaded?

[samiq]

don't know if this is related but I'm having the same issues with windows (see #99) and this was working just fine just a few days ago and no longer is the case, which has made us stopped our CI as it broke our staging environment.

[nicolasnoble]

This is most definitely very outdated and irrelevant now.