kaltura-playkit-bundler fails in the init step of its installation (forever node package)

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Bug report

When installing kaltura-front.. the dependency kaltura-playkit-bundler fails in the init step of its installation this is a duplicate of https://github.com/kaltura/platform-install-packages/issues/690.. with a bit more details leading to a possible PR

*Please provide steps to reproduce, including errors from /opt/kaltura/log/kaltura_api_v3.log, /opt/kaltura/log/kaltura_apache_errorslog and /opt/kaltura/log/kaltura_prod.log:**

have fresh system
perform installation steps outlined in the readme

mainly

# wget http://installrepo.origin.kaltura.org/repo/apt/debian/install_kaltura_all_in_1.sh 
# chmod +x install_kaltura_all_in_1.sh
# ./install_kaltura_all_in_1.sh

Error in bash:

Setting up kaltura-playkit-bundler (1.2.0-1+b2) ...
npm WARN deprecated chokidar@2.1.8: Chokidar 2 will break on node v14+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies.
npm WARN deprecated fsevents@1.2.13: fsevents 1 will break on node v14+ and could be using insecure binaries. Upgrade to fsevents 2.
npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated

> yarn@1.22.10 preinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/yarn
> :; (node ./preinstall.js > /dev/null 2>&1 || true)

Job for kaltura-playkit-bundler.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status kaltura-playkit-bundler.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript kaltura-playkit-bundler, action "restart" failed.
● kaltura-playkit-bundler.service - LSB: Start/stop Kaltura Bundle-builder-api.
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/kaltura-playkit-bundler; generated)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-02-10 18:04:28 CET; 14ms ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 49501 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/kaltura-playkit-bundler start (code=exited, status=2)

Feb 10 18:04:28 kaltura-all-in-one systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start/stop Kaltura Bundle-builder-api....
Feb 10 18:04:28 kaltura-all-in-one kaltura-playkit-bundler[49501]: Need to install the forever npm module. Exiting.
Feb 10 18:04:28 kaltura-all-in-one systemd[1]: kaltura-playkit-bundler.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Feb 10 18:04:28 kaltura-all-in-one systemd[1]: kaltura-playkit-bundler.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 10 18:04:28 kaltura-all-in-one systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start/stop Kaltura Bundle-builder-api..
dpkg: error processing package kaltura-playkit-bundler (--configure):
 installed kaltura-playkit-bundler package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kaltura-front:

log files are not present

Linux distribution name and version:

# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

Are you using the RPM or deb packages?

[ ] RPM
[x] deb

For deb based systems:

# dpkg -l "kaltura-*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                        Version             Architecture Description
+++-===========================-===================-============-=========================================================
ii  kaltura-base                16.5.0-2+b1         all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform
ii  kaltura-clipapp             1.3-1               all          Kaltura Video Presentations Manager
ii  kaltura-ffmpeg              4.0.2-3+b1          amd64
ii  kaltura-ffmpeg-aux          3.4.6-1+b1          amd64
ii  kaltura-flexwrapper         1.2-1+b1            all          Kaltura Video Presentations Manager
iU  kaltura-front               16.5.0-1            all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform - frontend server
ii  kaltura-html5-analytics     0.3                 all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform - frontend server
ii  kaltura-html5-studio        2.2.1-1+b1          all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform - frontend server
ii  kaltura-html5-studio3       3.5.0-1+b1          all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform - frontend server
ii  kaltura-html5lib            2.83-1              all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform - HTML5 player
ii  kaltura-html5lib3           0.54.0-1            all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform - HTML5 player
ii  kaltura-kclip               1.1.2.1-1           all          Kaltura Video Presentations Manager
ii  kaltura-kcw                 2.2.4-1+b6          all          Kalture Contribution Wizard
ii  kaltura-kdp                 2.7.0-1+b1          all          Kaltura Dynamic Player
ii  kaltura-kdp3                3.9.9-1+b4          amd64        Kaltura Dynamic Player
ii  kaltura-kdp3wrapper         37-1+b3             all          KDP3 Wrapper
ii  kaltura-kdpwrapper          11-1+b2             all          KDP Wrapper
ii  kaltura-kmc                 5.43.13-7           all          Kaltura Management Console
ii  kaltura-kmcng               5.19-3+really5.17-1 all          Kaltura Management Console
ii  kaltura-krecord             1.7-1+b1            all          Kaltura kRecord - used for recording from web cam
ii  kaltura-kupload             1.2.16-1+b2         all          Kaltura kupload widget
un  kaltura-libapache2-mod-php7 <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-apcu           <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-cli            <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-curl           <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-gd             <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-gmp            <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-memcache       <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-mysql          <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-ssh2           <none>              <none>       (no description available)
un  kaltura-php7-xsl            <none>              <none>       (no description available)
iF  kaltura-playkit-bundler     1.2.0-1+b2          all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform - frontend server
ii  kaltura-postinst            1.0.33-3+b14        all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform
ii  kaltura-widgets             14.1.0-1+b1         all          Kaltura Open Source Video Platform - widgets meta package

Is this an all in one instance [single server] or a cluster?

[ x ] All in one
[ ] Cluster

If applicable, please provide the MySQL version percona-5.5.5

Investigation / Efforts

first attempt (forever via node)

trying to install nodejs npm beforehand and forever globally

# apt install nodejs npm
# npm install forever -g
# which forever
/usr/local/bin/forever

which works, but:

# which forever
/usr/local/bin/forever
# apt install kaltura-playkit-bundler
Reading package lists... Done
(...) 
Feb 10 18:19:44 kaltura-all-in-one kaltura-playkit-bundler[49966]: Need to install the forever npm module. Exiting.
(..)
# which forever
#

the PATH looks okay

after installing forever

# npm install forever -g
# which forever
/usr/local/bin/forever
# env
SHELL=/bin/bash
(...)
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/opt/kaltura/bin

after apt install kaltura-playkit-bundler

Errors were encountered while processing:
 kaltura-playkit-bundler
 kaltura-front
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
# env
SHELL=/bin/bash
(...)
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/opt/kaltura/bin

but forever is gone

after installing forever

# ls -ali /usr/local/bin
total 8
4457 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 10 18:30 .
4456 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 10 15:27 ..
 404 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   39 Feb 10 18:30 forever -> ../lib/node_modules/forever/bin/forever

after apt install kaltura-playkit-bundler

# ls -ali /usr/local/bin
total 8
4457 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 10 18:26 .
4456 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 10 15:27 ..

the yarn way

weirdly, when using yarn to install 'forever' it does not happen

# curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
# sh -c "echo 'deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
# apt update
# apt install nodejs yarn
# yarn global add forever
(...)# ls -ali /usr/local/bin
total 8
 4457 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb 10 18:47 .
 4456 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Dec 10 15:27 ..
18380 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   54 Feb 10 18:47 forever -> ../share/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin/forever

movin on

first i thought it would be kaltura-playkit-bundler.init

but thats the init script

and then there is this info (when i did install forever via yarn and ran the install) which tells me it wouldn't remove 'forever'

Setting up kaltura-playkit-bundler (1.2.0-1+b2) ...
npm WARN deprecated chokidar@2.1.8: Chokidar 2 will break on node v14+. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x less dependencies.
npm WARN deprecated fsevents@1.2.13: fsevents 1 will break on node v14+ and could be using insecure binaries. Upgrade to fsevents 2.
npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm WARN rm not removing /usr/local/bin/forever as it wasn't installed by /usr/local/lib/node_modules/forever

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