And wild-blue-skying it after looking at install-cli, which seems to be concealing a log of errors,
# npm install particle-cli
npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.8: Use uuid module instead
npm WARN deprecated boom@2.10.1: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated cryptiles@2.0.5: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated hoek@2.16.3: This version is no longer maintained. Please upgrade to the latest version.
npm WARN deprecated parser-ready@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-ready
npm WARN deprecated parser-cctalk@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-cctalk
npm WARN deprecated parser-delimiter@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-delimiter
npm WARN deprecated parser-readline@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-readline
npm WARN deprecated parser-byte-length@1.0.2: renamed to @serialport/parser-byte-length
npm WARN deprecated parser-regex@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-regex
> serialport@6.2.0 install /root/tmp/node_modules/serialport
> prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild
sh: prebuild-install: command not found
gyp WARN EACCES user "" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/8.12.0"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/root/tmp/node_modules/serialport/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, stat '/root/tmp/node_modules/serialport/.node-gyp/8.12.0'
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.18.19-100.fc27.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /root/tmp/node_modules/serialport
gyp ERR! node -v v8.12.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/root/tmp/package.json'
npm WARN tmp No description
npm WARN tmp No repository field.
npm WARN tmp No README data
npm WARN tmp No license field.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! serialport@6.2.0 install: `prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the serialport@6.2.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2019-01-15T14_39_51_781Z-debug.log
[root@iodine tmp]# particle login
particle: Installing plugins (retrying)...
▸ Error reading plugin: particle-cli
▸ exit status 1
▸ module.js:327
▸ throw err;
▸ ^
▸
▸ Error: Cannot find module 'particle-cli/package.json'
▸ at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
▸ at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
▸ at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
▸ at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
▸ at [eval]:3:15
▸ at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:54:17)
▸ at Object.<anonymous> ([eval]-wrapper:6:22)
▸ at Module._compile (module.js:397:26)
▸ at node.js:611:27
▸ at nextTickCallbackWith0Args (node.js:452:9)
After playing silly-buggers with my account, root, and sudo, I was able to do the particle update and particle flash --usb tinker commands. Powering it off and on lets it breathe for 15s, at which point it goes to solid blue. And 15s later, it goes to flashing blue.
When you say “solid blue”, is it a blue, or is it a cyan color? Same question for the flashing.
And yeah sometimes you need sudo to run those commands depending on your installation. I’ve never had to install it manually though.
FYI, for particle identify, the device needs to already be in serial mode (hold down MODE button for 10 seconds while connected to usb). Then running it gives me:
bash-3.2$ particle identify
Your device id is 1234567890123456
Your IMEI is 1234567890123
Your ICCID is 12345678901234567890
Your system firmware version is 0.6.4
If I just power it all down and disconnect it, then hook up the battern and then the USB, it breathes cyan for 15s. Then it's solid blue for 15s. Then it's a slow blue blink evermore (like 4/s). At this point, with root access, I can
# particle serial identify
Your device id is 22001d001247373333353132
Your IMEI is 352580084825467
Your system firmware version is 1.0.0
No ICCID.
If I then put it into serial mode (light changes to fast yellow-green at abou 8/s), repeating the process I get:
# particle serial identify
Could not identify device: No serial port identified
Same result with root access disabled. Any UDEV rules that should have been added apparently weren't, because I wasn't root at the time.
I'm also concerned about not being able to list tokens; that sounds like it would be a Web site issue and interfering with claims in any event.
$ particle token list -v
Checking with the cloud...
? Using account <username>+Particle@GMail.Com
Please enter your password: [hidden]
error listing tokens: [object Object]
Error while listing tokens: Server error
VError: Error while listing tokens: Server error
at /home/coar/.particle/node_modules/particle-cli/dist/cmd/token.js:76:10
at process._tickCallback (node.js:401:9)
caused by: Error: Server error
at ApiClient.normalizedApiError (/home/coar/.particle/node_modules/particle-cli/dist/lib/ApiClient.js:1108:10)
at /home/coar/.particle/node_modules/particle-cli/dist/cmd/token.js:76:25
at process._tickCallback (node.js:401:9)
To clarify, per the troubleshooting instructions, have you removed the SIM card, cleaned it / wiped it off, and firmly reinserted it while the device is powered down?
It’s been clarified that the SIM activation failure is an issue concerning Particle’s “telephony partner”. But yes I have gone through the troubleshooting steps.
