too many symbolic links encountered, fail to install electron-forge with

[hanxue]

I'm opening this issue because:

• npm is crashing.
• npm is producing an incorrect install.
• npm is doing something I don't understand.
• [] Other (see below for feature requests):

What's going wrong?

When installing electron-forge, it will result in this error

npm WARN deprecated wrench@1.5.9: wrench.js is deprecated! You should check out fs-extra (https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra) for any operations you were using wrench for. Thanks for all the usage over the years.
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.3.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered, lstat '/Users/hanxue/DrRed/Quest-electron/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/path-exists'
npm ERR! path /Users/hanxue/DrRed/Quest-electron/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules
npm ERR! code ELOOP
npm ERR! errno -62
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! ELOOP: too many symbolic links encountered, mkdir '/Users/hanxue/DrRed/Quest-electron/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules'`

How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?

npm i --save-dev electron-forge

supporting information:

• npm -v prints: 5.4.2 (also tested with 5.5.1)
• node -v prints: 8.4.0
• npm config get registry prints: ****
• MacOS 10.10.5
• Network issues:
  • Geographic location where npm was run:
  • I use a proxy to connect to the npm registry.
  • I use a proxy to connect to the web.
  • I use a proxy when downloading Git repos.
  • I access the npm registry via a VPN
  • I don't use a proxy, but have limited or unreliable internet access.
• Container:
  • I develop using Vagrant on Windows.
  • I develop using Vagrant on OS X or Linux.
  • I develop / deploy using Docker.
  • I deploy to a PaaS (Triton, Heroku).

[kenany]

Can't reproduce with Node v9.1.0, npm v5.5.1, and Linux 4.13.12 :(

[MuthukumarHelios]

hi @hanxue
node -v 8.1.2
npm -v 5.0.3;
linux 16.04 Xenial os Version ubntu,
npm i electron-forge
It's working fine for me