Can't install again - npm WARN tarball tarball data for caseless@~0.12.0 (sha1-G2gcIf+EAzyCZUMJBolCDRhxUdw=) seems to be corrupted.

[DJay-X]

@oznu I'm on my Raspberry Pi on [email protected] | npm 6.9.0 | [email protected].
I installed/updatet config-ui-x by terminal, npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-config-ui-x.
Unfortunately for whatever reason, config-ui-x is not showing any plugins anymore. Just loading circle. With previous version everything was going well since months.
I uninstalled config-ui-x by sudo npm remove --unsafe-perm -g homebridge-config-ui-x
And even after a restart of the Pi I can't get it back installed anymore.
Not the version 3.11.0 and also not back to 3.10.0.

pi@raspberrypi-3BPlus:~ $ sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge-config-ui-x
npm ERR! Unexpected end of JSON input while parsing near '...164e22970df64c7abd6ad'
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2019-04-09T18_19_08_853Z-debug.log

After going back and forth and trying to install the "old" Version 3.10.0 even this is not working anymore.
Installation procedure get stuck, mostly by something like [ ......] / extract:lodash: sill extract lodash@^4.17.11 extracted to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/.staging/lodash-e1e3a35a (4900ms)

npm WARN tarball tarball data for caseless@~0.12.0 (sha1-G2gcIf+EAzyCZUMJBolCDRhxUdw=) seems to be corrupted. Trying one more time.
/usr/local/bin/homebridge-config-ui-x -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-config-ui-x/dist/bin/standalone.js

> [email protected] install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-config-ui-x/node_modules/node-pty
> node scripts/install.js

gyp WARN EACCES user "root" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.node-gyp/11.13.0"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-config-ui-x/node_modules/node-pty/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-config-ui-x/node_modules/node-pty/.node-gyp'
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.92-v7+
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-config-ui-x/node_modules/node-pty
gyp ERR! node -v v11.13.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node scripts/install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2019-04-10T08_13_48_395Z-debug.log

Also a node rebuild didn't change anything.

cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/
sudo npm rebuild --unsafe-perm

Homebridge and all other plugins still working great but can't get config-ui-x to install and run again. :(

Maybe not to see the wood for the trees
Any help and idea would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

2019-04-10T08_13_48_395Z-debug.log

[DJay-X]

Just a short update..
terminal command fixed the installation of 3.11.0 for me in some way.

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local && npm install homebridge-Pluginname -g

Unfortunately I still see no installed plugins at all with config-ui-x anymore.
Just circle spinning endless.

This is new to whatever reason. Never had a problem like this before.

@oznu If there is anything I can help to investigate, please of course let me know.
Or hopefully its fixed with just a next update.

Thanks again.

[oznu]

Hi @DJay-X,

From the logs you have posted and the symptoms, my guess would be something is corrupted in your global modules or cache folder. The endless spinning on the plugins page would suggest an error is occuring when the plugin attempts to read one of the global modules package.json file.

[DJay-X]

Thanks for your reply. Strange thing. Just happens lately with the recent update.
Any idea how to get this fixed? I'm not a big expert, so any help is very appreciated.

[oznu]

I would probably start by doing a cleanup of your global modules. Remove any you don't need and reinstall the ones you do.

cd $(npm -g prefix)/lib/node_modules
ls - la

[DJay-X]

Thanks for this.
Strangely, the plugins showed up yesterday only when using iOS Safari. No luck on macOS Safari, Firefox...
One day later, without changing anything, the plugins also show up again on macOS Safari.
It's a mystery. ;)
However, thanks for your great work and support. I will close this issue here for now and hope everything will go smooth like it was for the last year or so. ;)
Thanks again.

[oznu]

Happy to see you got it working again. In the next release I will prevent one corrupted module breaking the entire list installed plugins process; instead it will just not be displayed in the UI and an error will be logged showing what's wrong.