sdc-setup failed with an exception

[edwardw]

I followed "Getting Started" instructions in http://api.joyentcloud.com/ and installed node, npm and smartdc package. But my very first run of sdc-setup failed with an exception:

node.js:201
        throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
              ^
Error: No such module
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/smartdc/bin/sdc-setup:33:21)
    at Module._compile (module.js:432:26)
    at Object..js (module.js:450:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:351:31)
    at Function._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Array.0 (module.js:470:10)
    at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)

I used:

Mac OS X 10.6.8
node 0.6.3
npm 1.0.106

and npm list gives me:

/Users/edward/ws/node
└─┬ smartdc@6.5.0-1 
  ├── lru-cache@1.0.4 
  ├─┬ nopt@1.0.10 
  │ └── abbrev@1.0.3 
  ├─┬ restify@0.4.4 
  │ ├── formidable@1.0.2 
  │ ├── httpu@0.0.1 
  │ ├── node-uuid@1.2.0 
  │ ├── retry@0.4.0 
  │ └── semver@1.0.12 
  ├── sprintf@0.1.1 
  └─┬ ssh-agent@0.1.0 
    └── ctype@0.3.1 

I also tried node 0.6.2 installed by homebrew. Same error.

[mcavage]

Hi,

I believe this is because you are on node 0.6, which this library has not yet been tested against (yet). I will investigate what is needed for it to run correctly on node 0.6.

[edwardw]

Please do so. I installed node 0.5.9, but it didn't work with latest npm. I also tried to build and install npm from source. No luck either. None of tag v1.0.x, v0.3.x, or head worked with node 0.5.9; sudo make install under npm repository all ended up with a segmentation fault.

[mcavage]

It's on my short term list - for now, try it with node 0.4.12 - this library was published when 0.4.x was current.

[edwardw]

Hurrah, it does work with node 0.4.12 and latest npm, although sdc-* commands all end up with a 'HTTP Client error event' error but that is a different matter.

node 0.4.12 is the workaround for now.

[mcavage]

Ok great. For the error event, I'm going to bet you're using the wrong url (like http instead of https, perhaps?).

[mcavage]

This is now available in npm as 6.5.0-2. Thanks for the error report!

[edwardw]

Works like a charm!