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chi11ax
chi11ax

Reputation: 631

How do I fix my npm that seems to be infinitely looping?

I was trying to change my npm and npm-cache folders to d:\\npm-global and d:\\npm-cache

I managed to do a npm config set cache d:\npm-cache

When I tried to do a npm config set prefix d:\npm-global I accidentally put a ' in the folder string as I was hitting enter. I deleted the errant folder after trying a npm i -g gulp and to my horror, npm stopped working altogether, it just sits there with my command prompt rocking up to 50% CPU usage.

Help please! I've tried searching the registry and other places, even uninstalled and re-installed the nodejs msi package on Windows. This reset the D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\npmrc file.

Still no luck. I can't get npm to work again. :(

edit A little digging in and I realized there is a second node server running via Adobe Creative Cloud. I doubt this is the problem though as when I run npm from the cmd.exe prompt, the correct (d:\program files\nodejs) version of the npm server is executed for that process.

edit so only sometimes when I hit Control-C, I'll get this error:

npm error

seems like it's trying to find a file that doesn't exist. However, I cleared out the AppData\Roaming\npm folder and the reinstalls reset the default d:\program files\nodejs\....npm\npmrc file. I also made sure that the environment variable NODE_PATH is not set. It wasn't set when it was working. I set it when I was trying to make my changes.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 83

Answers (2)

chi11ax
chi11ax

Reputation: 631

@jakemingolla was right so I marked that answer as accepted (thanks Jake), but I also asked this in the NPM forum and did a little test after I got it working. I thought this might help someone: https://npm.community/t/i-killed-my-npm-on-windows-trying-to-move-some-folders-reinstalling-nodejs-isnt-resetting-the-problem/5743/8?u=chi11ax

Upvotes: 0

jakemingolla
jakemingolla

Reputation: 1639

You should be able to modify your config settings manually by modifying ~/.npmrc

Upvotes: 1

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