I’m running into issues trying to use particle setup from a fresh install of the Windows CLI. At this point I have done some troubleshooting by switching node versions, uninstalling the CLI, trying to install it from npm, etc. I have looked through the other posts with CLI issues and mine does not seem to match any I’ve found.
I have done a clean install removing everything I was testing with before and did a fresh install with the Windows CLI Installer:
Here is my current error report:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>particle setup
particle: Installing plugins (retrying)...
! Error installing package.
! npm WARN excluding symbolic link test\server\static\ie8-polyfill.js -> ../../../ie8-polyfill.js
! npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.17134
! npm ERR! argv "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\bin\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\lib\\node_modules\\npm\\cli.js" "install" "particle-cli"
! npm ERR! node v5.4.1
! npm ERR! npm v3.3.10
!
! npm ERR! Cannot read property 'emit' of null
! npm ERR!
! npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
! npm ERR! <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
! npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.17134
! npm ERR! argv "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\bin\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\lib\\node_modules\\npm\\cli.js" "install" "particle-cli"
! npm ERR! node v5.4.1
! npm ERR! npm v3.3.10
!
! npm ERR! Cannot read property 'emit' of null
! npm ERR!
! npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
! npm ERR! <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
! npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.8: Use uuid module instead
! npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.17134
! npm ERR! argv "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\bin\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\lib\\node_modules\\npm\\cli.js" "install" "particle-cli"
! npm ERR! node v5.4.1
! npm ERR! npm v3.3.10
!
! npm ERR! Cannot read property 'emit' of null
! npm ERR!
! npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
! npm ERR! <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
! npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.17134
! npm ERR! argv "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\bin\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\lib\\node_modules\\npm\\cli.js" "install" "particle-cli"
! npm ERR! node v5.4.1
! npm ERR! npm v3.3.10
!
! npm ERR! Cannot read property 'emit' of null
! npm ERR!
! npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
! npm ERR! <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
! npm WARN deprecated hoek@2.16.3: The major version is no longer supported. Please update to 4.x or newer
! npm WARN deprecated parser-byte-length@1.0.2: renamed to @serialport/parser-byte-length
! npm WARN deprecated parser-cctalk@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-cctalk
! npm WARN deprecated parser-regex@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-regex
! npm WARN deprecated parser-delimiter@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-delimiter
! npm WARN deprecated parser-ready@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-ready
! npm WARN deprecated parser-readline@1.0.2: reanmed to @serialport/parser-readline
! npm WARN engine clone-deep@4.0.0: wanted: {"node":">=8"} (current: {"node":"5.4.1","npm":"3.3.10"})
! npm WARN engine set-value@3.0.0: wanted: {"node":">=6.0"} (current: {"node":"5.4.1","npm":"3.3.10"})
! npm WARN engine shallow-clone@3.0.0: wanted: {"node":">=8"} (current: {"node":"5.4.1","npm":"3.3.10"})
! npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.17134
! npm ERR! argv "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\bin\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\lib\\node_modules\\npm\\cli.js" "install" "particle-cli"
! npm ERR! node v5.4.1
! npm ERR! npm v3.3.10
!
! npm ERR! Cannot read property 'emit' of null
! npm ERR!
! npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
! npm ERR! <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
! npm WARN excluding symbolic link test\server\static\ie8-polyfill.js -> ../../../ie8-polyfill.js
! npm WARN ENOENT ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\particle\package.json'
! npm WARN EPACKAGEJSON particle No description
! npm WARN EPACKAGEJSON particle No repository field.
! npm WARN EPACKAGEJSON particle No README data
! npm WARN EPACKAGEJSON particle No license field.
! npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.17134
! npm ERR! argv "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\bin\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\Andrew\\AppData\\Local\\particle\\node-v5.4.1-windows-x64\\lib\\node_modules\\npm\\cli.js" "install" "particle-cli"
! npm ERR! node v5.4.1
! npm ERR! npm v3.3.10
!
! npm ERR! Callback called more than once.
! npm ERR!
! npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this error at:
! npm ERR! <https://github.com/npm/npm/issues>
!
! npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
! npm ERR! C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\particle\npm-debug.log
!
! Try running again with GODE_DEBUG=info to see more output.
I am scratching my head at this point. Is it related to the version of node being distributed with the CLI? v5.4.1 is pretty old and I did have a slightly different error when I was using v8.11.4, but v5.4.1 was still being shown in the log.
Update: I was able to get this working just fine on my laptop, so the issue seems to be isolated to my desktop. I will add another update if I am able to figure this out.