Cannot uninstall global package

[jschneier]

I'm opening this issue because:

• npm is crashing.

What's going wrong?

I have a globally installed webpack that I wish to remove do it the right way.

How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?

Log file contents:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/Cellar/node/8.1.3/bin/node',
1 verbose cli   '/usr/local/bin/npm',
1 verbose cli   'remove',
1 verbose cli   '-g',
1 verbose cli   'webpack' ]
2 info using npm@5.0.3
3 info using node@v8.1.3
4 verbose npm-session 363d612266bc1093
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readGlobalPackageData
7 silly install loadIdealTree
8 silly install cloneCurrentTreeToIdealTree
9 silly install loadShrinkwrap
10 silly uninstall loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree
11 silly install loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree
12 error cb() never called!
13 error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
14 error <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

supporting information:

• npm -v prints: 5.0.3
• node -v prints: 8.1.3
• npm config get registry prints: https//registry.npmjs.org/
• Windows, OS X/macOS, or Linux?: Latest OSX

[jschneier]

I also tried uninstall and it did the same thing. Not sure if they are aliases for each other.

[kenany]

They are aliases for each otherremove is an alias for uninstall. Could you see if npm@5.1.0 resolves this issue?

[jschneier]

Ugh I just upgrade to the latest node so I didn't check for dupes, sorry. Dupe #17590. Really sorry about that.