NPM Failing every time #4300

timwiel · 2021-09-07T03:52:20Z

timwiel
Sep 7, 2021

I am having issues running npm on a clean git clone of sensei using vagrant (vvv version) as described here https://github.com/Automattic/sensei/wiki/Setting-Up-Your-Development-Environment#configure-a-local-wordpress-instance

I get the following errors:

vagrant@vvv:/srv/www/wordpress-one/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sensei$ npm install`
npm ERR! Maximum call stack size exceeded

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/vagrant/.npm/_logs/2021-09-07T03_45_45_825Z-debug.log

It is a new fresh new install but I have also tried the following and it errors the same:

doing rm -fr node_modules/ in the sensei directory
doing npm cache clean --force
doing npm rebuild
removing the package-lock.json file and running

Any help - what might I be doing wrong?

Further to this above issue:

I've created a StackOverflow discussion here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69094604/npm-fails-during-npm-install-with-npm-err-maximum-call-stack-size-exceeded
I'm running VVV on Macbook Pro and the default setup creates a VVV machine running a bento box of Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with a npm 6.14.15 version (from nodejs package version: 14.17.6-deb-1nodesource1)
I've destroyed the VVV instance and started again to work from clean without any issues I might have created in earlier tries - still fails !
I've gone to my desktop linux machine (different machine from the mac running VVV) - the linux desktop is running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS natively with default apt install of npm 6.14.4 version (from nodejs package version: 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1) and with a clean sensei git clone and npm install works fine !