create-react-app: "create-react-app hello-world" fails on Vagrant Ubuntu 12.04

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I am using npm version 4.3.0

Description

I can’t use create-react-app hello-world on Vagrant Ubuntu . It fails with the error “Aborting installation”, then deletes the files it previously installed.

Actual behavior

root@precise64:/code/React# create-react-app hello-world
Creating a new React app in /code/React/hello-world.

Installing packages. This might take a couple minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...

npm WARN prefer global marked@0.3.6 should be installed with -g
hello-world@0.1.0 /code/React/hello-world
+-- react@15.4.2
| +-- fbjs@0.8.9
| | +-- core-js@1.2.7
| | +-- isomorphic-fetch@2.2.1
| | | `-- node-fetch@1.6.3
| | |   +-- encoding@0.1.12
...
...
| +-- stream-cache@0.0.2
  | `-- webpack-dev-middleware@1.10.1
  |   +-- memory-fs@0.4.1
  |   `-- mime@1.3.4
  +-- webpack-manifest-plugin@1.1.0
  `-- whatwg-fetch@2.0.2

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.0.17 (node_modules/react-scripts/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.0.17: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.1: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})

Aborting installation.

Deleting generated file... node_modules
Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting hello-world/ from /code/React
Done.

Environment

Run these commands in the project folder and fill in their results:

npm ls react-scripts (if you haven’t ejected):

/code/React
`-- (empty)

node -v: 6.9.1
npm -v: 4.3.0

Then, specify:

Operating system: Vagrant virtual machine running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Browser and version: n/a

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 29 (27 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I’ll try the good 'ol remove everything, reboot, reinstall, reboot, try again method and see if that makes any difference.

Thanks a lot for your help, could not have gotten nearly this far w/o you.

Will get back soon.

tgig on Mar 2, 2017

While I empathize with your problem, those screenshots are beautiful in a way.

gaearon on Mar 2, 2017

When I edit the file in my Sublime Text editor from my local machine, the development server does not recognize the change, and does not re-load the files.

Can you try creating an .env file in the project root and adding CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING=true to it? Then restart the server.

gaearon on Mar 2, 2017

Hey, it worked! Not sure if it was the uninstall/reinstall, or having Yarn do the magic. But… here we go.

Unfortunately, now experiencing another weird issue:

I’m running this inside of a Vagrant box. When I edit the file in my Sublime Text editor from my local machine, the development server does not recognize the change, and does not re-load the files. When I use vim inside the vagrant machine, everything works as expected.

I’m happy to research this on my own or open a new issue. Maybe it’s an easy fix and you can point me in the right direction?

tgig on Mar 2, 2017