Errors while installing new 0.9.0 to new CentOS 7 VM

[JaredBusch]

I nuked the directory and pulled the master and it passed those errors with only warning about errors with optional packages.

Now it fails here

[JaredBusch]

I spun up an Ubuntu 15.04 install and followed those directions. the site is up perfectly.

As I do not want to maintain an Ubuntu server when all my other stuff is CentOS, I would much prefer to have this on CentOS.

Any help would be appreciated.

[JaredBusch]

Alright, I repeated everything this morning with the same result. I cannot install on CentOS 7 with the intructions as given.

There are problems during the npm install

[JaredBusch]

First error, there are more.

make: Entering directory `/opt/daerma/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o
In file included from ../src/validation.cc:15:0:
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:328:47: error: ‘REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8’ is not a member of ‘v8::String’
   static const unsigned kReplaceInvalidUtf8 = v8::String::REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8;
											   ^
make: *** [Release/obj.target/validation/src/validation.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/opt/daerma/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/utf-8-validate/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:820:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /opt/daerma/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/utf-8-validate
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.36
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.6
gyp ERR! not ok
In file included from ../src/bufferutil.cc:16:0:
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:328:47: error: ‘REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8’ is not a member of ‘v8::String’
   static const unsigned kReplaceInvalidUtf8 = v8::String::REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8;
											   ^
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]
make: *** [Release/obj.target/bufferutil/src/bufferutil.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/opt/daerma/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:820:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /opt/daerma/nodebb/node_modules/socket.io/node_modules/engine.io/node_modules/ws/node_modules/bufferutil
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.36
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.6
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN optional dep failed, continuing [email protected]

Final summary:

In file included from ../src/binding.cc:3:0:
../node_modules/nan/nan.h:328:47: error: ‘REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8’ is not a member of ‘v8::String’
   static const unsigned kReplaceInvalidUtf8 = v8::String::REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8;
											   ^
make: *** [Release/obj.target/magic/src/binding.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/opt/daerma/nodebb/node_modules/mmmagic/build'
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:820:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /opt/daerma/nodebb/node_modules/mmmagic
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.36
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.6
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0
[root@daermabb nodebb]#

[rbeer]

All your logs and screenshots show a nodejs version 0.10.x. That's heavily outdated. Which manifests itself fataly in

../node_modules/nan/nan.h:328:47: error: ‘REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8’ is not a member of ‘v8::String’
   static const unsigned kReplaceInvalidUtf8 = v8::String::REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8;

i.e. a module, that needs compilation, can't find a member (REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8) of the String class in v8. It must have been introduced later. Upgrading to 0.12.x at least should solve this problem.

[JaredBusch]

@rbeer said:

All your logs and screenshots show a nodejs version 0.10.x. That's heavily outdated. Which manifests itself fataly in

../node_modules/nan/nan.h:328:47: error: ‘REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8’ is not a member of ‘v8::String’
   static const unsigned kReplaceInvalidUtf8 = v8::String::REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8;

i.e. a module, that needs compilation, can't find a member (REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8) of the String class in v8. It must have been introduced later. Upgrading to 0.12.x at least should solve this problem.

Great. I can handle that. The problem then is the instructions are outdated even though someone updated them to show 0.9.x

404 Not Found

(docs.nodebb.org)

The instructions state to just pull nodejs from the repo. Looks like I cannot do that.

[rbeer]

That might be true. I am not familiar with CentOS and its package management.

Replacing the install instructions in question with nodesource (https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/tree/master/), might be a good idea. I know e.g. that Debian also has 0.10.x in its repos.

[JaredBusch]

For anyone else looking, here is how to get npm to install v.0.12.X

Getting NodeJS on CentOS 7 with NVM

NVM, the Node.js Version Manager, makes installing and managing Node.js quick and easy. By default, using YUM, on CentOS you get an old version of Node.js which is frustrating. Getting newer versions and managing them is easy with NVM and does not requi...

MangoLassi (mangolassi.it)

Off to start over again and see if it works this time.

[JaredBusch]

ends up like this.

[JaredBusch]

Looks like some error with the initial database configuration? Did this step change too?

[root@daermabb nodebb]# ./nodebb setup
16/11 10:15 [2991] - info: NodeBB Setup Triggered via Command Line

Welcome to NodeBB!

This looks like a new installation, so you'll have to answer a few questions about your environment before we can proceed.
Press enter to accept the default setting (shown in brackets).
URL used to access this NodeBB (http://localhost:4567)
Please enter a NodeBB secret (10055f4c-8d74-49c1-8eb0-a9619bcaaaff)
Which database to use (redis)

16/11 10:15 [2991] - info: Now configuring redis database:
Host IP or address of your Redis instance (127.0.0.1)
Host port of your Redis instance (6379)
Password of your Redis database
Which database to use (0..n) (0)
Configuration Saved OK

[email protected] node_modules/redis

[email protected] node_modules/connect-redis
└── [email protected] ([email protected])
Populating database with default configs, if not already set...
16/11 10:16 [2991] - warn: NodeBB Setup Aborted.
 undefined
[root@daermabb nodebb]#

[JaredBusch]

To answer my own question, the redis instance is not running if you followed the instructions to this point. So enter systemctl start redis

Then running ./nodebb setup will have the expected results.

This means that you also need to systemctl enable redis if you want it to work after reboot

[JaredBusch]

A quick firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=4567/tcp --permanent and firewall-cmd --reload later
And there we go.

Thanks @rbeer for the information about nodejs versions. I did not see the indicator that you did obviously.

[JaredBusch]

created a pull request on the instructions.
https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-english/pull/68

[rbeer]

@JaredBusch said:

A quick firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=4567/tcp --permanent and firewall-cmd --reload later
And there we go.

Thanks @rbeer for the information about nodejs versions. I did not see the indicator that you did obviously.

Very nice! Glad to see it working now.
And, don't you worry! I was tearing my hair out for about an hour, when I stumbled upon that error some weeks ago.