error cb() never called!

[laetitianaudet]

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?

npm install
npm ERR! cb() never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/xxx/.npm/_logs/2018-02-06T12_57_10_679Z-debug.log

How can the CLI team reproduce the problem?

Download the sample of https://angular.io/guide/router, and try to make npm install or just try to npm install -g @angular/cli

End on log file is : 2468 silly pacote range manifest for longest@^1.0.1 fetched in 156ms
2469 silly pacote range manifest for copy-descriptor@^0.1.0 fetched in 156ms
2470 error cb() never called!
2471 error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
2472 error <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

supporting information:

• npm -v prints: 5.6.0
• node -v prints: v9.5.0
• Windows, OS X/macOS, or Linux?: macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
• 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).

[HamoudaJoe]

I have the same problem when trying to uninstall angular cli

[rafasimionato]

I am facing this very same error running it at Docker for Windows (Win10) using a Linux container (IMAGE node:latest as angularBuilder).

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24292 error cb() never called!
24293 error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
24294 error https://github.com/npm/npm/issues

Docker info:

$ docker version
Client:
Version: 17.12.0-ce
API version: 1.35
Go version: go1.9.2
Git commit: c97c6d6
Built: Wed Dec 27 20:05:22 2017
OS/Arch: windows/amd64

Server:
Engine:
Version: 17.12.0-ce
API version: 1.35 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.9.2
Git commit: c97c6d6
Built: Wed Dec 27 20:12:29 2017
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: true

Container info:

root@0a407a4c1300:/# node -v
v9.5.0
root@0a407a4c1300:/# npm -v
5.6.0