Serve not working in Ubuntu 16.04 64bit

[cschweda]

Not sure if this is a known issue -- or an issue with my specific configuration -- but even after installing globally in Ubuntu 16.04 64 via:

npm i serve -g

And then running against files in a static directory (a Vue.js build):

serve ./dist

The terminal displays that the server started, gives the two sets of URLs, and then goes right back to the command line.

No errors -- but it immediately stops serving.

Anyone else see this?

(Just as a sanity check, I installed http-server gloabally via npm, ran it against the same static directory, and all is well. Files are served fine via localhost.)

Thoughts?

PS -- Not that it should matter, but I'm running Ubuntu via VMWare on a Windows box with 4 gigs ram to the vm.

cschweda@ubuntu:~/Webdev/test01$ serve dist

   ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │                                                     │
   │   Serving!                                          │
   │                                                     │
   │   - Local:            http://localhost:3000         │
   │   - On Your Network:  http://192.168.229.131:3000   │
   │                                                     │
   │                                                     │
   │                                                     │
   └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

cschweda@ubuntu:~/Webdev/test01$ node -v
v7.5.0
cschweda@ubuntu:~/Webdev/test01$ npm -v
4.1.2
cschweda@ubuntu:~/Webdev/test01$ 

[DavidBruant]

I confirm this bug. I'm running Ubuntu without a VM.

$ serve -v
3.3.1

[DavidBruant]

I tried and had the same bug with
serve@3.3.0
serve@3.2.10
serve@3.0.0
serve@2.4.4
serve@2.4.3

For some reason, npm start works on this project. No clue what's different beyond being used as an npm script.

[cschweda]

Yep -- this works when run via npm -- but not on the Ubuntu command line.

In package.json:

  "start": "serve ./dist --static",

Then:

cschweda@ubuntu$ npm run start

Works as expected. Server starts -- keeps running -- and pages are served fine.

However:

cschweda@ubuntu$ serve ./dist --static

Doesn't work. Simply goes right back to the command line.

cschweda@ubuntu$ serve -v
3.3.1

[jannisch]

I can confirm this issue on Void Linux with serve 3.3.1.

[disquisition]

Testing this out, it looked like the issue was that when on Linux and xclip isn't installed, the copy-paste package can raise a SIGPIPE when it attempts to copy to the clipboard. The reason there's no error is that the process seems to terminate before the error lister has a chance to fire.

(Still not sure why this isn't a problem when you run serve via $ npm run start...)

[cschweda]

Yep. Installed xclip -- and all is well:

cschweda@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install xclip

Then:

cschweda@ubuntu:~$ serve

And everything works fine:

   ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │                                                 │
   │   Serving!                                      │
   │                                                 │
   │   - Local:            http://localhost:3000     │
   │   - On Your Network:  http://10.211.55.4:3000   │
   │                                                 │
   │   Copied local address to clipboard!            │
   │                                                 │
   └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

[cubodehelio]

serve -v
3.4.0

Stop working in Linux Mint 17.2 after update. It just get back to the console with no output at all.

[cschweda]

Did you try installing xclip as mentioned above?

sudo apt-get install xclip

[cubodehelio]

Thanks @cschweda yes, that solves the problem sorry.