Error: spawn E2BIG

[yoshuawuyts]

Using standard@2.7.0 and io.js@1.3.0:

~/src/yw/finfin master*  7s
❯ npm t

> finfin@1.0.0 test /Users/yoshuawuyts/src/yw/finfin
> standard && NODE_ENV=test node test | colortape

child_process.js:1132
    throw errnoException(err, 'spawn');
          ^
Error: spawn E2BIG
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:734:11)
    at ChildProcess.spawn (child_process.js:1132:11)
    at Object.exports.spawn (child_process.js:964:9)
    at spawn (/Users/yoshuawuyts/src/yw/finfin/node_modules/standard/index.js:
162:20)
    at /Users/yoshuawuyts/src/yw/finfin/node_modules/standard/node_modules/run
-parallel/index.js:32:7
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at module.exports (/Users/yoshuawuyts/src/yw/finfin/node_modules/standard/
node_modules/run-parallel/index.js:31:11)
    at /Users/yoshuawuyts/src/yw/finfin/node_modules/standard/index.js:136:7
    at done (/Users/yoshuawuyts/src/yw/finfin/node_modules/standard/node_modul
es/run-parallel/index.js:15:13)
    at /Users/yoshuawuyts/src/yw/finfin/node_modules/standard/index.js:157:7
npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.

~/src/yw/finfin master*

Google doesn't seem to be familiar with these popping up in node. Maybe anyone's had this happen before? The project can be found here in case you want to replicate. Thanks!

[feross]

E2BIG means that the argument list is too long. See errors.c where it's defined.

I cloned your project and it worked fine for me, on iojs 1.3.0, so this must be an operating system difference. What OS are you using?

Please run getconf ARG_MAX to check the max argument size (in bytes) of your OS.

Also, please install the latest version of standard (2.7.1). Verify by running standard --version. Then run DEBUG=standard npm t and paste the output. It should show us the exact command that standard is trying to run under-the-hood (and we can see if there's actually a huge argument list being passed, or not).

[yoshuawuyts]

Hah, I ran standard with DEBUG=standard and it appeared node_modules weren't being ignored in non-root directories. Adding a standard.ignore property to package.json solved it for me. I believe there was a discussion about ignoring node_modules in an issue, but I can't seem to find it (would be useful to link to, I think.) Anyway I'm all good now; thanks! 🎉

[feross]

Thanks for sharing the outcome. This settles it. I'll merge the issue to ignore all node_modules folders.

[gdad-s-river]

Hey @yoshuawuyts @feross, maybe this isn't the right place to ask this since it's not related to this repo at all, but I'd appreciate if you could help out about this question that I asked on stack overflow. I'm not able to debug the E2BIG error source in my project's grunt build process. If you could help (if that's possible, that is), I really need some help. Thanks