HELP - I've broken my Nodebb install - NPM self-signed certificate issue [SOLVED]

Giorgio Chiodi

@psychobunny yep, that's the command i've used

psychobunny

@bentael said:

@sp4rkr4t i think he's suffering from this http://stackoverflow.com/a/22089950/493756

interesting, I wonder if that was the source of some grief we were having yesterday

bentael

@giorgio-chiodi said: in chat:

npm ERR! Error: SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN

Giorgio Chiodi

npm ERR! Error: SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN
npm ERR! at SecurePair.<anonymous> (tls.js:1350:32)
npm ERR! at SecurePair.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:92:17)
npm ERR! at SecurePair.maybeInitFinished (tls.js:963:10)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream.read [as _read] (tls.js:463:15)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream.Readable.read (_stream_readable.js:320:10)
npm ERR! at EncryptedStream.write [as _write] (tls.js:366:25)
npm ERR! at doWrite (_stream_writable.js:219:10)
npm ERR! at writeOrBuffer (_stream_writable.js:209:5)
npm ERR! at EncryptedStream.Writable.write (_stream_writable.js:180:11)
npm ERR! at write (_stream_readable.js:573:24)
npm ERR! at flow (_stream_readable.js:582:7)
npm ERR! at Socket.pipeOnReadable (_stream_readable.js:614:5)
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:
npm ERR! http://bugs.debian.org/npm
npm ERR! or use
npm ERR! reportbug --attach /home/super/nodeBB/nodebb/npm-debug.log npm

npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-12-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /home/super/nodeBB/nodebb
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.18

[...]

npm WARN package.json [email protected] No README.md file found!

[...]

npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/validator/-/validator-3.2.1.tgz

[...]

npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/less/-/less-1.6.3.tgz

[...]

npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/validator/-/validator-3.2.1.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/less/-/less-1.6.3.tgz
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/less/-/less-1.6.3.tgz

Sp4rkR4t

@psychobunny Looks like it could well be.

bentael

the community is pissed over this, don't worry @giorgio-chiodi you're not alone.
! http://blog.npmjs.org/post/78085451721/npms-self-signed-certificate-is-no-more

Giorgio Chiodi

yey! i hope there's a fix though

bentael

did you try the attempted solution in the StackOverflow link?

EDIT: you most likely need sudo to update npm

Giorgio Chiodi

it's downloading...

Sp4rkR4t

This post is deleted!

bentael

actually that doesn't make sense, if you can't download anything from npm how could you download npm itself.
try npm config set ca ""

Giorgio Chiodi

@bentael ah yes, that's why it didn't work!

Giorgio Chiodi

still waiting... the script, I mean

bentael

so try the set ca workaround, then update npm, ..

also someone suggested:

sudo npm config set strict-ssl false
sudo npm update npm -g
sudo npm config set strict-ssl true

Giorgio Chiodi

@bentael Ok it's working again! YEY!

I did this

sudo npm config set ca ""

followed by this

sudo npm config set strict-ssl false
sudo npm update npm -g
sudo npm config set strict-ssl true

then

./nodebb upgrade

Giorgio Chiodi

thanks to everyone for helping us out!

bentael

@giorgio-chiodi you're welcome, could you re-edit your comment so the commands won't be on the same line, use the 3 backticks to start and end a code block "`"

sudo npm config set strict-ssl false 
sudo npm update npm -g 
sudo npm config set strict-ssl true

Giorgio Chiodi

@bentael ah that's how you did it. yours still looks better than mine, though.

bentael

YUP