“npm ERR!” during code-server npm install

[marfier]

~# npm install -g code-server
npm WARN @coder/logger@1.1.11 requires a peer of @google-cloud/logging@^4.5.2 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/tar-fs/node_modules/chownr
npm ERR! dest /usr/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/tar-fs/node_modules/.chownr.DELETE
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '/usr/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/tar-fs/node_modules/chownr' -> '/usr/lib/node_modules/code-server/node_modules/tar-fs/node_modules/.chownr.DELETE'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-07-23T02_52_12_426Z-debug.log
~#

/root/.npm/_logs/2020-07-23T02_52_12_426Z-debug.log

[Adebesin-Cell]

npm WARN deprecated tslint@6.1.2: TSLint has been deprecated in favor of ESLint. Please see palantir/tslint#4534 for more information.
npm WARN deprecated chokidar@2.1.8: Chokidar 2 will break on node v14+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies.
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see request/request#3142

[Adebesin-Cell]

How do I solve the error?

[marfier]

@Adebesin-Cell please open a separate issue for that.

[nhooyr]

@GalacticLion7 Please try latest master again.

Also, your link doesn't show the logs for me unfortunately.

[nhooyr]

Any updates @GalacticLion7

[markpanado]

Having the same issue on Alpine Linux

[marfier]

@nhooyr here's a new link: https://transfer.sh/U1MPP/2020-10-09T12_38_39_831Z-debug.log

Sorry for the late response.

[code-asher]

I've seen this before but I'm not sure what causes it (I think it might be related to being root). Does it happen if you try again? What if you use yarn instead of npm?

[stefanhenseler]

@code-asher having the same issue, using yarn v1.22.5. I'm using the following command yarn global add code-server@3.7.4. I've tried it using root and coder user, no difference. I always get the same error:

yarn global v1.22.5
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
warning "code-server > @coder/logger@1.1.16" has unmet peer dependency "@google-cloud/logging@^4.5.2".
[4/4] Building fresh packages...

My alpine container finishes building, but when I start the application, obviously it crashes due to the missing dependency. I tried installing the peer dependency manually, but the current version is 9.0.0 and yarn crashes when I try to install 4.5.2.

[code-asher]

The `google-cloud/logging` library is an optional dependency our logger supports but we don't use it in code-server so it won't be the cause of this issue unfortunately. So the installation is completing for you, but when you launch code-server it crashes, right? Could you post code-server's logs so we can see what it says during the crash? *Edit*: it might make sense to open a new issue since this one is about npm trying to move around files that for some reason no longer exist during installation.

[stefanhenseler]

@code-asher I think I didn't read properly. In my case it was just missing some libraries I guess, as explained in the npm install docs. Here what worked for me on Alpine 3.12:

RUN apk upgrade -U -a && \
    apk add libxkbfile-dev libsecret-dev libx11-dev \
    && rm -rf /var/cache/* \
    && mkdir /var/cache/apk
RUN yarn global add typescript
RUN yarn global add code-server

[code-asher]

Awesome, glad you got it working! I think we plan to add some code that will check to make sure system dependencies are installed.