Error activating node version

[toymachiner62]

You can see from the output below, i'm unable to successfully cd to a dir and have it switch node versions. I tried with both a version I don't have installed via nvm yet (5.0) and one that I do (5.1) and same result.

$ cd myapp/
avn could not activate node 5.0
$ nvm ls
         v5.1.0
->       system
default -> v5.1.0
node -> stable (-> v5.1.0) (default)
stable -> 5.1 (-> v5.1.0) (default)
iojs -> N/A (default)
$ node -v
v0.10.33
$ cd ../
$ cd myapp/
avn could not activate node 5.1

[wbyoung]

Please be sure to include the appropriate debugging output.

Can you also provide the following:

• Your shell and the version
• The version of nvm you're using

[toymachiner62]

$ nvm --version
0.29.0
$ __avn_debug
avn could not activate node 5.1
error: no plugin passed predicate
  avn-nvm: nvm exited with status: 127
/bin/bash: /Users/m089269/.nvm/nvm.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: nvm: command not found
$ ls -al ~/.nvm
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   5 m089269  MFAD\Domain Users   170 Nov 25 11:14 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 74 m089269  MFAD\Domain Users  2516 Jan 19 15:55 ..
drwxr-xr-x   3 m089269  MFAD\Domain Users   102 Nov 25 11:15 alias
drwxr-xr-x   3 m089269  MFAD\Domain Users   102 Nov 25 11:14 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 m089269  MFAD\Domain Users   102 Nov 25 11:14 versions

I'm on OSX El Capitan running the default terminal app (let me know if there's a better way to get the shell version)

[toymachiner62]

Any update on this?

[wbyoung]

@toymachiner62 it appears as though you installed via homebrew which is not supported. See:

wbyoung/avn#25
nvm-sh/nvm#469

If that's not the case, then your nvm install appears to be bad. I'd recommend re-installing. I'm going to assume that's the issue here and close this, but if it's not, you can re-open.

[toymachiner62]

I just reinstalled nvm via their install curl command and I'm still getting the error:

$ cd myapp/
avn could not activate node 5.1

$ __avn_debug
avn could not activate node 5.1
error: no plugin passed predicate
  avn-nvm: nvm exited with status: 127
/bin/bash: /Users/myuser/.nvm/nvm.sh: No such file or directory
/bin/bash: nvm: command not found

[wbyoung]

The absense of the nvm.sh file at /Users/myuser/.nvm/nvm.sh strongly suggests to me that there's some sort of installation issue.

@ljharb can you confirm?

My suggestion (and please note that I don't work on nvm) would be to rm -rf ~/.nvm and try re-installing.

Also, be sure to start a new shell when re-trying avn.

[toymachiner62]

Still didn't work:

$ rm -rf ~/.nvm
$ rm -rf ~/.nvm
$ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.30.2/install.sh | bash
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  7750  100  7750    0     0   9531      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  9532
=> Downloading nvm from git to '/Users/myuser/.nvm'
=> Cloning into '/Users/myuser/.nvm'...
remote: Counting objects: 4344, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 4344 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 4341
Receiving objects: 100% (4344/4344), 1.09 MiB | 1.88 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2544/2544), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
* (HEAD detached at v0.30.2)
  master

=> Source string already in /Users/myuser/.bashrc
npm ERR! max depth reached: hapi@>= 8, required by hapi-authorization@2.2.5
npm ERR! not ok code 0
=> You currently have modules installed globally with `npm`. These will no
=> longer be linked to the active version of Node when you install a new node
=> with `nvm`; and they may (depending on how you construct your `$PATH`)
=> override the binaries of modules installed with `nvm`:

/usr/local/lib
├── bower@1.6.5
├── cordova@4.1.2
├── crontab@1.1.0 -> /Users/m089269/Sites/node-crontab
├── db-migrate@0.9.5
├── eslint@1.10.3
├── generator-cg-angular@3.1.2
├── generator-hapijs@0.1.6
├── grunt@0.4.5
├── grunt-cli@0.1.13
├── gulp@3.9.0
├─┬ hapi-authorization@2.2.5 -> /Users/m089269/Sites/hapi-authorization
│ └── hapi@>= 8
├── istanbul@0.3.6
├── karma-cli@0.0.4
├── lab@5.0.1
├── mocha@2.2.4
├── node-mongo-seeds@2.2.4
├── node-whenever@0.0.7 -> /Users/m089269/Sites/node-whenever
├── nodemon@1.7.0
├── phonegap@4.1.2-0.22.10
└── yo@1.2.1

=> If you wish to uninstall them at a later point (or re-install them under your
=> `nvm` Nodes), you can remove them from the system Node as follows:

     $ nvm use system
     $ npm uninstall -g a_module

=> Close and reopen your terminal to start using nvm 

Closed my terminal and reopened it. cd'd to my app dir and

$ cd myapp/
avn could not activate node 5.1

$ __avn_debug
avn could not activate node 5.1
error: no plugin passed predicate
  avn-nvm: no version matching 5.1

[wbyoung]

So now your install looks correct, but you don't have 5.1 installed nvm install 5.1.

If that doesn't work, nvm ls and report the results.

[toymachiner62]

There we go! Works now. Thanks for your help.