Cli: Error: Cannot find module 'cli-engine'

[cronlab-io]

When I Type "Heroku" and hit then it shows,

module.js:544
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'cli-engine'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:542:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:472:25)
at Module.require (module.js:585:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at Object. (C:\Users\LaravelAppData\Local\heroku\clientbin\heroku.js:2:15)
at Module._compile (module.js:641:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:652:10)
at Module.load (module.js:560:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:503:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:495:3)

[RasPhilCo]

Can you run heroku version and what is your version?

[cronlab-io]

it shows same error when i type and hit heroku version and my version latest. see screenshot below

[williameliel]

Same error here. Any fix soon?

[jdxcode]

we don't actually use this package anymore. Make sure you're on [email protected]+

[williameliel]

@jdxcode It's the version I'm running
```$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 williamgarcia wheel 102 Jan 3 15:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 williamgarcia wheel 884 Jan 3 15:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 williamgarcia wheel 272 Jan 3 15:05 6.15.4

[georgebrock]

I saw this error after upgrading to Heroku 6.15.2 on macOS via brew upgrade heroku.

A fresh install resolved the error for me:

brew uninstall --force heroku
brew install heroku

[williameliel]

thanks @georgebrock that did it!

[jjb]

i am running the pkg version, reinstalling from the pkg did not fix the issue.

then i did mv .local dot-local-old and then reinstalled, and it fixed the issue

here is the diff of the old and new .local

➔ diff -r .local dot-local-old               
Only in dot-local-old/share: bower
Only in dot-local-old/share/heroku: cli
Only in dot-local-old/share/heroku: client
diff -r .local/share/heroku/config.json dot-local-old/share/heroku/config.json
1a2,3
>   "skip_analytics": true,
>   "install": "REDACTED",
3d4
<   "install": "REDACTED",
Only in dot-local-old/share/heroku: plugins

I don't know if that "install" value is a secret so I redacted it. let me know if it's needed for debugging.

[jjb]

Okay, now i've sent my dot-local-old to heroku in ticket 542719.

[kburzota]

I had exactly the same issue. Uninstalling and reinstalling heroku worked for me as well. Thanks @georgebrock !

[jdxcode]

sorry about the trouble here! we had some code to tidy up our directory and get rid of some extra files that was too eager. A fix is rolling out right now. If your CLI is broken, just delete ~/.local/share/heroku/client and it should resolve itself automatically.

[anthonymidili]

I just ran brew upgrade heroku to 6.15.11 and got this error when running heroku local.

I have ran
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies --force heroku
then brew cleanup -s
then reinstalled heroku brew install heroku.
which allowed me to run heroku local successfully... until I quit my terminal and then restarted
it giving me the same error as before. Not sure what's going on here.

---

UPDATE: It took a complete mac restart, brew uninstall --force heroku, and brew install heroku to fix this issue. heroku local is now running as expected.

[TallOrderDev]

Having this issue with 6.15.31

This has been the 3rd time I've had to reinstall heroku.

[georgebrock]

I thought reinstalling Heroku had resolved this for me, but as reported in #683 and by other commenters, the issue keeps coming back.

[Pro777]

This keeps happening to me as well. I don't think requesting users just delete ~/.local/share/heroku/client is an appropriate and reasonable response.

[jdxcode]

So there are 2 issues here. The ones the users had back in December/January are not the ones you guys are having now. That was affecting most users and was quickly fixed, but took a while to roll out and clear out stale code that kept making it reappear.

It's apparent that there is another issue that is causing a small number of users to have to reset their CLI weekly. I've been pulling my hair out digging through the code trying to figure out what it is but have come up short. You have no idea how much this has been on my mind. I haven't said much about it because I haven't figured anything out.

I'm not sure what it is but I think it might be something with our bash script on certain machines running symlinks. It might also be stale code that keeps getting executed on your machine.

I just pushed out a potential fix that moves one of the files from a symlink into a real file. If you update to 6.15.38, let me know if you see it happen again. It might also be a good idea to try the pkg installer as that might solve an issue with stale code being loaded.

If this is really causing you pain, just use npm install -g heroku-cli and that will never autoupdate.

In any case, with this new change, if I get a new traceback after this happens on version 6.15.38+, it will give me more information on what the root cause. So please keep me informed but hopefully this will resolve the issue.

[jdiago]

Got the following just now:

module.js:472
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'cli-engine'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:470:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:418:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:498:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/josefdiago/.local/share/heroku/client/bin/heroku.js:2:13)
    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)

version was 6.16.12

[jdxcode]

You have old code on your machine if you get this error despite what the version states.

[jdiago]

Weird. I've brew rm heroku, brew cleanup -s, then brew install heroku a few times already because of this recently.

Are there other files I need to get rid of manually?

[jdxcode]

yes I put the instructions on this ticket: https://github.com/heroku/cli/issues/683

We definitely do not use this path (.local/share/heroku/client/bin/heroku.js) anymore so if you're getting this issue it must be old code on the machine

[jdiago]

Done. Thank you.

[green64]

I'm really new to heroku (like I haven't successfully deployed to the point I can see my app) and I've returned to this thread a few times trying various fixes. I just ran this npm install -g heroku-cli but I did it in the directory I'm trying to push. Should I be on the root instead? I haven't tried to push to my repo again but I've done it so many times I wanted to ask before I try again.

I checked my heroku version:
heroku-cli/6.16.17 (darwin-x64) node-v8.10.0

[sdhull]

I've uninstalled & reinstalled heroku using brew numerous times. I only barely skimmed this issue previously.

Just now I saw recommendation to rm -rf ~/.local/share/heroku/client in a different thread, and simply doing that seemed to fix my issue. We'll see how long it lasts 🤷‍♂️

@green64 sorry I didn't see this sooner, I assume you worked it out, but for reference: npm install -g is install "globally" so it doesn't matter what directory you run it from.

[green64]

thank you -- I got it working after reinstalling git, heroku several times, standing on one leg and holding my tongue just right. :)