create-react-app: Failing on installing react-scripts

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Description

What are you reporting? When I create a project with create-react-app, it has failing on installing react-scripts package. I am not sure this is create-react-app issue or yarnpkg issue because when I tried to install react-scripts with yarnpkg separately, it has same issue. However, current create-react-app depends on the yarnpkg which has issue, I think it should be addressed.

Expected behavior

It should create a project without aborting, or if it is aborted, it should not delete the folder. Since it deletes the folder, the yarn-error.log file is gone.

Actual behavior

Got this message.

 mshin@1s5cj12-l  ~/Workspace/github  create-react-app test-app
Creating a new React app in /Users/mshin/Workspace/github/test-app.

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

yarn add v0.24.5
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.npmjs.org/@timer%2fdetect-port: Could not authenticate npm".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/Users/mshin/Workspace/github/test-app/yarn-error.log".
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

Aborting installation.
  yarnpkg add --exact react react-dom react-scripts has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting generated file... yarn-error.log
Deleting test-app / from /Users/mshin/Workspace/github
Done.

Environment

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

1. npm ls react-scripts (if you haven’t ejected):
2. node -v: v6.9.5
3. npm -v: 3.10.10

Then, specify:

1. Operating system: Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5
2. Browser and version: N/A

Reproducible Demo

mshin@1s5cj12-l  ~/Workspace/github  create-react-app test-app
Creating a new React app in /Users/mshin/Workspace/github/test-app.

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

yarn add v0.24.5
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.npmjs.org/@timer%2fdetect-port: Could not authenticate npm".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/Users/mshin/Workspace/github/test-app/yarn-error.log".
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

Aborting installation.
  yarnpkg add --exact react react-dom react-scripts has failed.

Deleting generated file... package.json
Deleting generated file... yarn-error.log
Deleting test-app / from /Users/mshin/Workspace/github
Done.