Slap crashes when opening/saving a file

[AwokeKnowing]

I can open up slap, but when I try to save a file, it crashes. also when I just type slap file.txt on the command line (Putty) it gives the error attached in the screenshot.

I suspect it's an install issue, but I can't figure how to fix it. The install script failed why installing node-gyp or something, and I found that if I added --unsafe-perm then it installed.

I'm running a mostly fresh install of ubuntu14.04 on amazon cloud

[dbkaplun]

Hmm, for some reason my Ubuntu 14.04 VM hasn't been installing slap@latest... Can you try installing sudo npm install -g slap@0.1.27?

[AwokeKnowing]

I did as you said, and it seemed to install ok, but the problem is still there. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help resolve it.

james@clinux14:~$ sudo npm install -g slap@0.1.27

> execSync@1.0.2 install /usr/lib/node_modules/slap/node_modules/slap-clipboard-plugin/node_modules/copy-paste/node_modules/execSync
> node install.js

[execsync v1.0.2] Attempting to compile native extensions.
[execSync v1.0.2] Native extension compilation successful!
npm WARN engine hawk@0.10.2: wanted: {"node":"0.8.x"} (current: {"node":"0.10.38","npm":"1.4.28"})

> runas@2.0.0 install /usr/lib/node_modules/slap/node_modules/text-buffer/node_modules/pathwatcher/node_modules/runas
> node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory `/usr/lib/node_modules/slap/node_modules/text-buffer/node_modules/pathwatcher/node_modules/runas/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/runas/src/main.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/runas/src/runas_posix.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/runas/src/fork.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/runas.node
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/runas.node: Finished
  COPY Release/runas.node
make: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/node_modules/slap/node_modules/text-buffer/node_modules/pathwatcher/node_modules/runas/build'
npm WARN engine hoek@0.7.6: wanted: {"node":"0.8.x"} (current: {"node":"0.10.38","npm":"1.4.28"})
npm WARN engine boom@0.3.8: wanted: {"node":"0.8.x"} (current: {"node":"0.10.38","npm":"1.4.28"})
npm WARN engine cryptiles@0.1.3: wanted: {"node":"0.8.x"} (current: {"node":"0.10.38","npm":"1.4.28"})
npm WARN engine sntp@0.1.4: wanted: {"node":"0.8.x"} (current: {"node":"0.10.38","npm":"1.4.28"})

> pathwatcher@3.3.3 install /usr/lib/node_modules/slap/node_modules/text-buffer/node_modules/pathwatcher
> node-gyp rebuild

make: Entering directory `/usr/lib/node_modules/slap/node_modules/text-buffer/node_modules/pathwatcher/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/pathwatcher/src/main.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/pathwatcher/src/common.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/pathwatcher/src/handle_map.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/pathwatcher/src/pathwatcher_linux.o
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/pathwatcher.node
  SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/pathwatcher.node: Finished
  COPY Release/pathwatcher.node
make: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/node_modules/slap/node_modules/text-buffer/node_modules/pathwatcher/build'
/usr/bin/slap -> /usr/lib/node_modules/slap/index.js
slap@0.1.27 /usr/lib/node_modules/slap
├── xtend@3.0.0
├── longjohn@0.2.4
├── traverse@0.6.6
├── rc@1.0.1 (strip-json-comments@0.1.3, deep-extend@0.2.11, ini@1.3.3, minimist@0.0.10)
├── mkdirp@0.5.1 (minimist@0.0.8)
├── iconv-lite@0.4.8
├── bluebird@2.9.25
├── slap-clipboard-plugin@0.0.10 (lazy.js@0.4.0, copy-paste@1.1.0)
├── lazy.js@0.3.2
├── lodash@2.4.2
├── blessed@0.1.56
├── highlight.js@8.5.0
├── winston@0.7.3 (cycle@1.0.3, stack-trace@0.0.9, eyes@0.1.8, colors@0.6.2, pkginfo@0.3.0, async@0.2.10, request@2.16.6)
├── update-notifier@0.3.2 (is-npm@1.0.0, string-length@1.0.0, chalk@1.0.0, semver-diff@2.0.0, latest-version@1.0.0, configstore@0.3.2)
├── cheerio@0.15.0 (entities@1.0.0, CSSselect@0.4.1, htmlparser2@3.7.3)
├── text-buffer@4.1.5 (atom-diff@2.0.0, interval-skip-list@2.0.1, event-kit@1.1.1, delegato@1.0.0, q@1.4.0, underscore-plus@1.6.6, fs-plus@2.8.0, span-skip-list@0.2.0, serializable@1.0.0, grim@1.4.1, emissary@1.3.3, pathwatcher@3.3.3)
└── node-clap@0.0.4 (npm@2.10.0)

The the error I get when opening a file is

[prashnts]

"Me too". Same error in OSX.

[giorrrgio]

+1

[dbkaplun]

8 days ago, a dependency was updated to use ES6 features, which NodeJS does not currently support. (See atom/text-buffer#61.) I've pinned atom/text-buffer's version so that it doesn't rely on ES6 anymore, and released a new version 0.1.28 of slap. Does that fix the issue?

[prashnts]

Yes, this version fixes the problem.