"Installing ua-parser-js@1.0.35..."

[ra3ggi]

Meshcentral was installed from https://hub.docker.com/r/typhonragewind/meshcentral on TrueNAS Scale Everything has been working for over three months. After a recent update, there is an endless error - "Installing ua-parser-js@1.0.35..." https://i.imgur.com/GgiXyxa.png Specifying "preloadlibs-latest" does not solve the problem. Please help

[RoBo-OnGitHub]

I also experienced this issue after updating to typhonragewind/meshcentral:latest (I think this is 1.1.11) a couple of days before. From the FAQ of this github: "Unable to install required module "otplib@10.2.3" -> I haven't been able to find the source of this error and can't replicate it locally. Use one of the tags that contains "preloadlibs"." So i've changed the tag from latest to preloadlibs-latest but I'm getting the same results.

After the error as stated by ra3ggi in the description of this issue, I connected to the shell of this container (docker-compose run meshcentral bash) and tried the manually proposed commands. This is however also failing:

npm ERR! code EINVAL
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! path /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js/license.md
npm ERR! dest /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om/license.md
npm ERR! errno -22
npm ERR! EINVAL: invalid argument, rename '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js/license.md' -> '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om/license.md'

So the main error seems to be "invalid argument, rename '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js/license.md' -> '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om/license.md'"

This created log (removed the timing rows) during this manual command:

0 verbose cli /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/npm
1 info using npm@9.8.1
2 info using node@v18.18.0
21 verbose title npm install ua-parser-js@1.0.35
22 verbose argv "install" "ua-parser-js@1.0.35"
25 verbose logfile logs-max:10 dir:/root/.npm/_logs/2023-10-10T15_11_55_126Z-
26 verbose logfile /root/.npm/_logs/2023-10-10T15_11_55_126Z-debug-0.log
38 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/ua-parser-js 161ms (cache revalidated)
39 silly placeDep ROOT ua-parser-js@1.0.35 REPLACE for:  want: 1.0.35
47 silly reify mark retired [ '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js' ]
48 silly reify moves {
48 silly reify   '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js': '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om'
48 silly reify }
51 verbose stack Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, rename '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js/package.json' -> '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om/package.json'
52 verbose cwd /opt/meshcentral
53 verbose Linux 3.10.0-1160.95.1.el7.x86_64
54 verbose node v18.18.0
55 verbose npm  v9.8.1
56 error code EINVAL
57 error syscall rename
58 error path /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js/package.json
59 error dest /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om/package.json
60 error errno -22
61 error EINVAL: invalid argument, rename '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js/package.json' -> '/opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om/package.json'
62 verbose exit -22

Within the container the directory /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om does exist (only containing a subdir dist with properties "drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Oct 10 15:11"

[ra3ggi]

Oh, problem solved, thank you!

[Typhonragewind]

I'll look into this, thanks for all the debugging!

[ra3ggi]

At the moment everything is working !

[RoBo-OnGitHub]

Hmm, I took the whole docker-compose down and restarted it trying to give a simple reproducible procedure for others. Strangely I didn't face the same issue, but an issue I seem to have encountered previously.

docker-compose up resulted into

Installing otplib@10.2.3...
ERROR: Unable to install required module "otplib@10.2.3". MeshCentral may not have access to npm, or npm may not have suffisent rights to load the new module.

Which I fixed with:

docker start meshcentral ; docker exec -it meshcentral bash -c 'npm install otplib@10.2.3' 
docker start meshcentral 

I'm not understanding why my previous issues with npm install ua-parser-js@1.0.35 didn't show up now. I've tried to solve these previously by cp -r /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/ua-parser-js/* /opt/meshcentral/node_modules/.ua-parser-js-9xX4e5om, but they should not be in place anymore after having removed the container... STRANGE... For me I have a working meshcentral again, possibly more debugging on a next release ;-)

p.s. could it be that since https://github.com/Typhonragewind/meshcentral-docker/issues/27 the otplib is not included anymore in tag preloadlibs-latest?

[ra3ggi]

Strangely, I don't have a problem with "otplib@10.2.3". although my tag is not preloadlibs-latest but latest

[ra3ggi]

With the latest update and I have a problem with endless "Installing otplib@10.2.3..." Installing "preloadlibs-latest" doesn't work I can't enter the commands for manual installation, because it is installed on TrueNAS, and there it has its own specifics. Help, please :)

[ra3ggi]

Honestly, I got tired of the problems with this docker and switched to another ( https://hub.docker.com/r/vegardit/meshcentral ), which I advise everyone to do. There are no problems there and everything is updated in a timely manner.