vagrant install-origin-assets-base fails to install phantom.js

[stevekuznetsov]

The failures cause these error messages:

Jun 07 11:13:40 npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /chokidar/fsevents:
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents@1.0.12
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm WARN origin-web-console@1.3.0-alpha No license field.
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! Linux 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.x86_64
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "--unsafe-perm"
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! node v0.10.42
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! npm  v3.7.3
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
Jun 07 11:13:40 
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! phantomjs@1.9.15 install: `node install.js`
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! Exit status 1
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! 
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! Failed at the phantomjs@1.9.15 install script 'node install.js'.
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the phantomjs package,
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! not with npm itself.
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR!     node install.js
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR!     npm bugs phantomjs
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR!     npm owner ls phantomjs
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
Jun 07 11:13:40 
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm ERR!     /data/src/github.com/openshift/origin-web-console/npm-debug.log
Jun 07 11:13:40 
Jun 07 11:13:40 
Jun 07 11:13:40 Stderr from the command:
Jun 07 11:13:40 
Jun 07 11:13:40 + ORIGIN_CONSOLE_PATH=/data/src/github.com/openshift/origin-web-console
Jun 07 11:13:40 + ASSET_BACKUP_DIR=/data/asset_dependencies
Jun 07 11:13:40 + which npm
Jun 07 11:13:40 + sudo yum -y install npm
Jun 07 11:13:40 + sudo npm install npm@3.7.3 -g
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/3.7.3
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/3.7.3
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-3.7.3.tgz
Jun 07 11:13:40 npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-3.7.3.tgz
Jun 07 11:13:40 + pushd /data/src/github.com/openshift/origin-web-console
Jun 07 11:13:40 + hack/install-deps.sh

@jwforres thinks it's a throttling/rate-limiting issue on the phantom.js distribution network, so may only happen when many instances on AWS are attempting the command at once.

/cc @danmcp

[stevekuznetsov]

@jwforres still seeing this, and only when spinning up one, or two or five images -- no way I'm getting rate-limited. Here are the NPM debug log and console output of a recent failure in case you can divine something from them.

If we can't, how can we configure the install-assets to be more resilient to these sorts of failures?

(I know we spoke about not doing asset install, but vagrant install-origin does it as a substep and I need to install the rest of the Origin stuff unfortunately)