Serverless CLI always fails with "exit status 243"

[iknowcss-invenco]

Issue description

Whenever I run a Serverless CLI command, I get the exact same behaviour. For example:

sls -v

This starts by running an update:

⠋ Updating

...before failing with the following to stdout:

Error: exit status 243

Previously I set-up npm to install global node modules to a proper system lib directory, so I had to run sudo npm i -g .... But given that the sls CLI tool insists on doing an upgrade every time, I switched it to install globals to ~/.npm-global so sudo is not necessary anymore. However, even though I can install without sudo and am definitely running sls from the new directory (which sls yields /Users/XXX/.npm-global/bin/sls), I get the same error.

The biggest difficulty I have is that there is no meaningful output from the CLI tool for me to diagnose and fix the issue myself. I'm completely stuck.

Happy to provide any additional info. Hopefully anyone else getting the same error code can find this thread with Google now.

Edit:

After a bit more sleuthing, I can trace the problem to the execution of the binary itself. sls -v translates to:

/Users/XXX/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/.bin/serverless-darwin-arm64-0.0.2 -v

When I run that directly I get the same behaviour:

1. ⠋ Updating
2. Error: exit status 243

I'm running on a Nov 2024 MacBook Pro which is arm64 architecture.

Context

Not available as I cannot run any CLI commands successfully.

However, when I cat /Users/XXX/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/serverless/package.json I can see the version installed is 4.19.1.

[iknowcss-invenco]

I was able to fix this by changing the ownership of ~/.serverless recursively to my local user:

sudo chown -R XXX ~/.serverless

However, there was no indication of a permission problem as no errors came out of the CLI binary at all. If nothing else it would be useful to get actual error messages out. This is not the first time I've encountered the "243" error from the sls CLI. Every time it comes up I have to hunt in the dark to figure out what it wants.

[czubocha]

Hey @iknowcss-invenco, thanks for reporting this. We are currently working on improving error logging in the CLI binary to make issues like this easier to debug.

[iknowcss-invenco]

Thanks @czubocha 🙏 Let me know if I can provide any additional information.

[czubocha]

The latest binary now prints error messages and additional debug information when issues occur, so I'm closing this issue. Thanks for reporting!
To update the binary, run serverless update or remove your node_modules and $HOME/.serverless directory.

[iknowcss-invenco]

This is great, thanks @czubocha 🙏 I can confirm that when I reproduce the error conditions and run, I see error messages now:

% serverless update

Error: opening file /Users/XXX/.serverless/releases/4.21.1/package/dist/containers/serverless-dev-mode-nodejs-20/Dockerfile: open /Users/XXX/.serverless/releases/4.21.1/package/dist/containers/serverless-dev-mode-nodejs-20/Dockerfile: permission denied