brave-browser: Linux Arm64 npm run init fails

Running npm run init fails and gives an error on Manjaro Arm64

npm run init

> brave@1.23.32 init
> node ./scripts/init.js

Performing initial checkout of brave-core
Cloning brave-core [undefined] into /home/corey/Stuff/brave-browser/src/brave...
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/home/corey/Stuff/brave-browser/src/brave
> git clone  .

fatal: repository 'undefined' does not exist

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/corey/Stuff/brave-browser
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node ./scripts/init.js

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/corey/.npm/_logs/2021-03-11T06_26_49_392Z-debug.log
[corey@manjaro-pi brave-browser]$ npm install

up to date, audited 29 packages in 8s

found 0 vulnerabilities
[corey@manjaro-pi brave-browser]$ npm run init

> brave@1.23.32 init
> node ./scripts/init.js

Performing initial checkout of brave-core
Cloning brave-core [undefined] into /home/corey/Stuff/brave-browser/src/brave...
node:internal/fs/utils:323
    throw err;
    ^

Error: EEXIST: file already exists, mkdir '/home/corey/Stuff/brave-browser/src/brave'
    at Object.mkdirSync (node:fs:1024:3)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/corey/Stuff/brave-browser/scripts/init.js:19:6)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1092:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1121:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:972:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:813:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:76:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
  errno: -17,
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  code: 'EEXIST',
  path: '/home/corey/Stuff/brave-browser/src/brave'
}
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/corey/Stuff/brave-browser
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node ./scripts/init.js

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/corey/.npm/_logs/2021-03-11T06_31_43_841Z-debug.log

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave version: 1.23.32

About this issue

  • Original URL
  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Reactions: 2
  • Comments: 16 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Thanks for the report @coreybruce ๐Ÿ˜„ Iโ€™m de-duping reports of this issue and have it tracked with https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/19398 in case you wanted to subscribe ๐Ÿ˜„

@coreybruce things should be in a better place now and weโ€™re also looking at upgrading to newer node and npm.