imagemin-mozjpeg: 7.0.0 errors with EPIPE

We receive this error after updating to 7.0.0 on our ci server (Ubuntu 16)

Warning: Error: write EPIPE in file x.jpg

After downgrading to 6.0.0 it works again. It also works with newer version on macOS

Gruntfile.js

...
             imagemin: {
                options: {
                    optimizationLevel: 7,
                    progressive: true,
                    interlaced: true,
                    svgoPlugins: [
                        { removeTitle: true },
                        { removeDesc: { removeAny: true } },
                    ],
                    use: [
                        imageminMozjpeg({ quality: 80 }),
                        imageminPngcrush({ reduce: false }),
                    ],
                },
                static: {
                    files: [
                        {
                            expand: true,
                            src: [
                                'webroot/images/**/*.{png,jpg,gif,svg}',
                            ],
                        },
                    ],
                },
...

installed packages:

├─ grunt-contrib-imagemin@2.0.1
├─ imagemin-gifsicle@5.2.0
├─ imagemin-jpegtran@5.0.2
├─ imagemin-mozjpeg@7.0.0
├─ imagemin-optipng@5.2.1
├─ imagemin-pngcrush@5.1.0
├─ imagemin-svgo@5.2.4
├─ imagemin@5.3.1
├─ mozjpeg@5.0.0

I guess it might be because of #16 which made it into 7.0.0 although it was reverted in #17, but the revert seems it was force pushed away or somehow else removed from history. Was that on purpose?

This is the image:

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Most upvoted comments

I have the same issue but I just found a new solution.

https://github.com/imagemin/imagemin-mozjpeg/blob/005b789088921493ea9968570562f59e10c5e838/package.json#L46

Just upgrade mozjpeg to the latest 6.0.0 version.

If you use yarn instead of npm , you can add the following code to your project’s package.json to temporarily resolve this issue:

"resolutions": {
    "imagemin-mozjpeg/mozjpeg": "^6.0.0"
}

I hope the author will update as soon as possible.

+20

BenzLeung on Jun 16, 2018

i not very sure, but fix after sudo apt-get install libpng16-dev

adenvt on Mar 29, 2018

Nope. Experiencing the same issue for some jpg files in 8.0.0. After downgrade to 6.0.0 issue has gone.

kernel72 on Jan 12, 2019

same issue, downgrading to ^6.0.0 fixed it.

john-codeworx on Aug 21, 2018

After hours of research and experimenting with different settings, I managed to resolve mozjpeg errors when using Linux/Docker. The issue is particularly when using alpine image.

My updated Dockerfile:

FROM node:12-buster-slim

RUN npm i npm@latest -g

WORKDIR /usr/src

COPY ./app/package*.json ./

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    autoconf \
    automake \
    g++ \
    libpng-dev \
    make\
    nasm \
    -y wget \
    && wget -q -O /tmp/libpng12.deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.54-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb \
    && dpkg -i /tmp/libpng12.deb \
    && rm /tmp/libpng12.deb \
    && npm install --no-optional && npm cache clean --force \
    npm install -g gulp \
    && npm install gulp

ENV PATH /usr/src/node_modules/.bin/:$PATH

WORKDIR /usr/src/app

COPY . .

These settings might save you hours of frustration. BTW Node’s alpine image is NOT recommended because of long build time, even though it’s small image size.

Happy coding!

xshapira on Aug 26, 2021

I have the same issues, when running this from a GitLab CI runner. My buildchain uses the official Docker node (node:6 and node:8) and both give the Error: write EPIPE.

Tried Installing libpng16-dev with sudo apt-get install libpng16-dev doesn’t work, since the Node Docker containers are based on Debian.

Also installing nasm doesn’t work.

Workaround When I exclude the plugins: [imageminMozjpeg({ quality: 75 })], it works. When I downgrade to "imagemin-mozjpeg": "~6.0.0", it works.

Note: I’m running this in a Sage project.

Possibly related: #26

rutger1140 on Jun 5, 2018

For anyone who’s trying to get this to work in Travis build,

sudo apt-get install libpng16-dev won’t work as travis containers have a whitelist of packages - ubuntu-trusty whitelist

libpng16-dev is not in the whitelist yet and I have created a new whitelist request for libpng16-dev - libpng16-dev whitelist request. So until it is whitelisted we won’t be able to get it work work in trusty containers.

As an alternative, I switched to osx environment temporarily to get this to work. Add this line to you travis.yml file

os: osx

And everything will work like a charm! 🎉

flexdinesh on Apr 18, 2018