Unexpected "npx hardhat compile" error on start > "Carl Pilcher"

[geode-main]

When we are using hardhat for our contracts we faced with an infinite loop on terminal when we tried to update every package with

npm install

weird texts in sample output can be seen here:

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...

Notably there is a name in the output: "Carl Pilcher"

Issue resisted with different computers and node versions also on different terminals.

Afterwards, we tried to create a new hardhat example project and tested it with: ( choose Create an advanced sample project)

npm install --save-dev hardhat 
npx hardhat
npx hardhat compile

Issue resisted.

hardhat version : v2.8.2 node version: v16.13.1 npm -v : 8.1.2

Please reproduce the issue and let us know how to fix it.

[geode-main]

Seems like the issue is about https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/289

Which is dependent to:
https://github.com/Marak/faker.js

[geode-main]

Please downgrade any "faker.js" dependency to faker@5.5.3 to fix the problem.

[jummy123]

Another workaround is adding the following to package.json

  "resolutions": {
    "**/colors": "1.4.0"
  }

[cgewecke]

I think this is actually coming from eth-gas-reporter (which depends on colors - an npm package that broke over the weekend as noted in comments above).

The latest release of hardhat-gas-reporter (1.0.7) patches it and pins colors to 1.4.0.

AFAIK hardhat uses chalk & isn't directly affected by this bug.

[geode-main]

Yes, the issue is about gas reporter but still, hardhat needs to fix this and not be dependent to such failure on such a small task.

[cgewecke]

@geode-main For context this bug was introduced intentionally by the package maintainer and designed to cause problems for anyone who imported it at the file level. It broke hundreds of major projects across the node ecosystem and resulted in interventions by npm and github to roll back the package version (edit: not sure about npm actually) and freeze the maintainer's OSS account. It's an unusual event.

The main issue thread in the repo is here: https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285

[lpsm-dev]

Today the most of our docker node build pipelines had this problem. To solve this I added the force-resolutions setup in package.json

Context

Broken docker build step of some node projects in GitLab CI pipelines.

Steps

1. Add preinstall command in scripts section of package.json.

"preinstall": "([ ! -f package-lock.json ] && npm install --package-lock-only --ignore-scripts --no-audit); npx npm-force-resolutions",

2. Add resolutions to colors lib:

 "resolutions": {
    "**/colors": "1.4.0"
  }

Outputs

Before

After

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