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[it4sa]

What's going wrong?

I'm following this details especially the Start and configure PM2 with a config.js file part but getting this error, anyone ran into this before?

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\nvm\v16.15.0\NPM.CMD:1
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^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token ':'
    at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:352:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1033:15)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1069:27)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\ProcessContainerFork.js:33:23)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1105:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)

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--- PM2 report ----------------------------------------------------------------
Date                 : Thu Mar 16 2023 23:39:51 GMT+0200 (South Africa Standard Time)
===============================================================================
--- Daemon -------------------------------------------------
pm2d version         : 5.2.2
node version         : 16.15.0
node path            : not found
argv                 : C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe,C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\Daemon.js
argv0                : node
user                 : undefined
uid                  : N/A
gid                  : N/A
uptime               : 96min
===============================================================================
--- CLI ----------------------------------------------------
local pm2            : 5.2.2
node version         : 16.15.0
node path            : not found
argv                 : C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe,C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\bin\pm2,report
argv0                : C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe
user                 : <user>
===============================================================================
--- System info --------------------------------------------
arch                 : x64
platform             : win32
type                 : Windows_NT
cpus                 : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v4 @ 2.30GHz
cpus nb              : 4
freemem              : 12363161600
totalmem             : 17178693632
home                 : C:\Users\<user>
===============================================================================
--- PM2 list -----------------------------------------------
┌─────┬───────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┬──────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┐
│ id  │ name      │ namespace   │ version │ mode    │ pid      │ uptime │ ↺    │ status    │ cpu      │ mem      │ user     │ watching │
├─────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┼──────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 0   │ server    │ default     │ 0.1.0   │ fork    │ 268824   │ 89m    │ 0    │ online    │ 0%       │ 136.8mb  │ mon… │ disabled │
└─────┴───────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┴────────┴──────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
===============================================================================
--- Daemon logs --------------------------------------------
C:\ProgramData\pm2\home\pm2.log last 20 lines:
PM2        |     at God.deleteProcessId (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\God\ActionMethods.js:366:9)
PM2        |     at Server.onmessage (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\node_modules\pm2-axon-rpc\lib\server.js:104:6)
PM2        |     at RepSocket.emit (node:events:527:28)
PM2        |     at RepSocket.emit (node:domain:475:12)
PM2        |     at Parser.<anonymous> (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\node_modules\pm2-axon\lib\sockets\rep.js:51:15)
PM2        |     at Parser.emit (node:events:527:28)
PM2        |     at Parser.emit (node:domain:537:15)
PM2        |     at Parser._write (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\node_modules\amp\lib\stream.js:91:16)
PM2        |     at Object.God.logAndGenerateError (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\God\Methods.js:34:15)
PM2        |     at C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\God\ActionMethods.js:367:30
PM2        |     at Object.God.stopProcessId (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\God\ActionMethods.js:289:14)
PM2        |     at God.deleteProcessId (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\God\ActionMethods.js:366:9)
PM2        |     at Server.onmessage (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\node_modules\pm2-axon-rpc\lib\server.js:104:6)
PM2        |     at RepSocket.emit (node:events:527:28)
PM2        |     at RepSocket.emit (node:domain:475:12)
PM2        |     at Parser.<anonymous> (C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\node_modules\pm2-axon\lib\sockets\rep.js:51:15)
PM2        |     at Parser.emit (node:events:527:28)
PM2        |     at Parser.emit (node:domain:537:15)
PM2        | 2023-03-16T23:30:16: PM2 log: Stopping app:app id:3
PM2        | 2023-03-16T23:30:16: PM2 error: app=app id=3 does not have a pid

[it4sa]

@Unitech may I ask you for some details on this issue. Thanks!

[it4sa]

@keymetrics can you please help on this? Thanks.

[it4sa]

@nitinmukesh did you ever resolve your issue in #2808? I ran into the same issue and struggling to get it resolved. Thanks.

[it4sa]

Thanks @laminebakelli for your comment on this issue.

I will follow your suggestions but still not working, got this error now :

May I ask what is the config in your ecosystem.config.js file?

[mistryaksh]

Did anyone resolve this issue, faced same issue with node project

[hassaan-AK]

I am also having the same issue, I was trying to run a simple express app

command: pm2 start npm --name "backend" -- run dev

Error:

PM2        | 2024-01-31T12:32:54: PM2 log: Script C:\PROGRAM FILES\NODEJS\NPM.CMD had too many unstable restarts (16). Stopped. "errored"

C:\Users\SCS\.pm2\logs\backend-app-out.log last 15 lines:
C:\Users\SCS\.pm2\logs\backend-app-error.log last 15 lines:
0|backend- | C:\PROGRAM FILES\NODEJS\NPM.CMD:1
0|backend- | :: Created by npm, please don't edit manually.
0|backend- | ^
0|backend- |
0|backend- | SyntaxError: Unexpected token ':'
0|backend- |     at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:77:18)
0|backend- |     at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1288:20)
0|backend- |     at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1340:27)
0|backend- |     at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1435:10)
0|backend- |     at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32)
0|backend- |     at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1023:12)
0|backend- |     at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\SCS\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\pm2\lib\ProcessContainerFork.js:33:23)
0|backend- |     at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1376:14)
0|backend- |     at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1435:10)
0|backend- |     at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1207:32)

[hassaan-AK]

I got it working but it opens up a terminal try it like this instead of npm use its path. pm2 start "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" --name "MultilingualSystem" -- run dev

[doppelgunner]

It seems like this is happening because of nvm

\nvm\v20.15.0\NPM.CMD:1
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