bufferutil: install fails at node-gyp rebuild stage

@Bugsbane : I feel your pain. It was mine as well. In my case (kubuntu) had to wipe out from synaptic all debs related to node or npm,and remove some gyp library, It seems you have a conflict with an older package that is getting in the way.

then while root (or sudo):

npm cache clean -f npm install -g n n stable npm install npm -g

This is what I did.

Hth,

R

tried

sudo apt-get install libkrb5-dev
npm uninstall bufferutil
sudo npm install -g bufferutil

which got me past the bufferutil issue. to fix the next (similar) issue regarding utf-8-validate, i just upgraded node to the latest version using sudo apt-get install nodejs

I am running TeamCity builds on Ubuntu Server. The problem is that building randomly fails. When that happens, I don’t change anything, I just run the build once more and it passes. Then after a few days it crashes again. I rerun it. It passes.

My build config includes two websites with separate node_modules, and I see that while one of them succeeds and moves past node-gyp bufferutil, the build for the second website fails.

Here is an example of the log:

The succeeding build:

[00:03:39][Step 2/4] npm WARN prefer global node-gyp@3.3.1 should be installed with -g
[00:03:44][Step 2/4] 
[00:03:44][Step 2/4] > bufferutil@1.2.1 install /datadisk/TeamCity/buildAgent/work/3de96e708f2408e/repository/sites/site-one/node_modules/bufferutil
[00:03:44][Step 2/4] > node-gyp rebuild
[00:03:44][Step 2/4] 
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! build error 
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! stack Error: not found: make
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! stack     at F (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:78:19)
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! stack     at E (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:87:29)
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! stack     at /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/which/which.js:98:16
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! stack     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! System Linux 3.19.0-49-generic
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! cwd /datadisk/TeamCity/buildAgent/work/3de96e708f2408e/repository/sites/site-one/node_modules/bufferutil
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! node -v v5.6.0
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.2.1
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] gyp ERR! not ok 
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] npm WARN install:bufferutil@1.2.1 bufferutil@1.2.1 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
[00:03:45][Step 2/4] npm WARN install:bufferutil@1.2.1 Exit status 1
[00:03:47][Step 2/4] 

as you see, it just issues a warning and then continues.

But for the failing build (for example, the second website) the output differs when the failure occurs:

[00:09:58][Step 2/4] npm WARN prefer global node-gyp@3.3.1 should be installed with -g
[00:10:06][Step 2/4] 
[00:10:06][Step 2/4] > bufferutil@1.2.1 install /datadisk/TeamCity/buildAgent/work/3de96e708f2408e/repository/sites/site-two/node_modules/bufferutil
[00:10:06][Step 2/4] > node-gyp rebuild
[00:10:06][Step 2/4] 
[00:10:06][Step 2/4] 
[00:10:06][Step 2/4] 
[00:10:06][Step 2/4] Exec status: 1

This time there are no warnings, it just fails with status 1 being thrown to the very top level of the build script.

I’m completely baffled by this, there are no changes whatsoever, I just hit the Run button for the failed build again and it succeeds with npm WARN install:bufferutil@1.2.1 Exit status 1 instead of full exit.

What’s the reason of such random failures?

It resolved for me on Mac OS X 10.10.5 after uninstall and reinstall npm uninstall bufferutil npm install -g bufferutil

I’ve been seeing these errors on Windows for as long as I’ve been using node. I’ve tried installing many versions of Visual Studio, Visual Studio Tools for windows desktop, MSBuild, node-gyp, python, MINGW gcc, node (0.12, 4, 5), npm (2.x, 3.x), running npm installs with --msvs_version=(2012,2013,2015)… Nothing has fixed it.

Granted this is usually a side effect of npm trying to install optional dependencies, but its very annoying on Windows. It would be nice if there were a way for windows users to specify to always ignore these as optional dependencies on Windows boxes (e.g. npm -g ignore bufferutil utf-8-validate), but that’s not yet an option.

Best I’ve found is always using npm install --no-optional

Installing Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ solved the issue for me.

Here’s my case what fixed it:

I used nvm and had 7.2.1 installed.

1. Removed nvm brew uninstall nvm
2. Surely remove node, sudo rm -rf /usr/local/{lib/node{,/.npm,_modules},bin,share/man}/{npm*,node*,man1/node*}
3. Install node@6.9.2 brew install node@6 Errors gone!

I was able to reproduce this problem on OSX 10.11.6 when building a project that had a dependency of "java": "^0.6.0" changing that to "java": ">=0.6.0" worked fine after installing Java 7 and/or Java 8 SDK.

Thanks @siegmergius, upgrading from python 2.7.3 to python 2.7.12 fixed it for me

I was installing browser-sync and also received seemingly similar gyp-related error on Ubuntu 14.04. I then updated nodejs with https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs

then npm to npm2 with

sudo npm -g install npm@latest-2

and the gyp ERR! configure error is gone.