Create-react-native-app: Errors on 1st start: Unable to perform cache refresh / ECONNREFUSED

[mosesoak]

After creating a fresh project, both yarn start and yarn ios resulted in the following error:

$ react-native-scripts start
Starting packager...
Error starting packager: Error: Unable to perform cache refresh for /Users/mosesgunesch/.expo/cache/versions.json: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 104.155.140.179:443
    at /xdl/src/tools/FsCache.js:101:15
    at throw (native)
    at step (/Users/mosesgunesch/Documents/projects/creaternapp-starter/node_modules/xdl/build/tools/FsCache.js:32:191)
    at /Users/mosesgunesch/Documents/projects/creaternapp-starter/node_modules/xdl/build/tools/FsCache.js:32:402
error Command failed with exit code 1.

After ~2 tries yarn ios worked.

[anp]

Hi! Thanks for the report! This is a file that one of CRNA's dependencies downloads on the first run, but I should probably work to make sure this file is cached with the distribution.

[flarnie]

Hi @dikaiosune and @mosesoak - I'm also getting this error on my first attempt to use create-react-native-app on Windows 10.
Is there a work-around to handle this?

Error starting packager: Error: Unable to perform cache refresh for C:\Users\flarnie\AppData\Local\Expo\versions.json: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 35.184.55.1:443
    at C:\xdl\src\tools\FsCache.js:101:15
    at throw (native)
    at step (C:\Users\flarnie\Code\gumshoe\node_modules\xdl\build\tools\FsCache.js:32:191)
    at C:\Users\flarnie\Code\gumshoe\node_modules\xdl\build\tools\FsCache.js:32:402
error Command failed with exit code 1.

I'm going to be helping students use create-react-native-app and they may also run into this.

[anp]

@flarnie sorry about that! Expo's site is having a wee bit of downtime at the moment, and this is the last remaining vestige of API interaction that CRNA needs to work. It should work very soon (once things are back up), and I'll reprioritize bundling the JSON this needs with the npm package.

EDIT: To clarify, bundling this file will prevent any future API downtime from impacting getting started.

[flarnie]

Great to hear - thanks for responding so fast! ⚡️ 😄

[anp]

:D

Looks like things are back online right now, I'll post back once the versions and schema information is bundled on npm.

[benxuhuang]

Hi every one
I'm also getting this error on Windows 7.

Error starting packager: Error: Unable to perform cache refresh for C:\Users\ben\AppData\Local\Expo\versions.json: Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND exp.host exp.host:443 at D:\xdl\src\tools\FsCache.js:101:15 at Generator.throw (<anonymous>) at step (D:\react\createApp\node_modules\xdl\build\tools\FsCache.js:32:191) at D:\react\createApp\node_modules\xdl\build\tools\FsCache.js:32:402 error Command failed with exit code 1.

Thanks for helping~~

[smilejos]

Hi, I get a error message as blow.
Do you have any idea ?

Error starting packager: 
Error: Unable to perform cache refresh for C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Expo\versions.json: 
Error: unable to get local issuer certificate
    at C:\xdl\src\tools\FsCache.js:101:15
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at step (C:\Users\jtung\workspace\Euro28\node_modules\xdl\build\tools\FsCache.js:32:191)
    at C:\Users\jtung\workspace\Euro28\node_modules\xdl\build\tools\FsCache.js:32:361

[anp]

The changes that will resolve this issue have landed: https://github.com/expo/xdl/commit/c7af151dbf8411a2b450ffbd4ccf01bbcfe23399. I'll close this for now, should be resolved in a release later this week.

[AyoubTorabi]

hi,
I get a error message as blow(expo on windows10 and on expo ios-app)
2:29:20 PM
Failed to publish package: connect ETIMEDOUT 35.184.55.1:443

[mark0978]

I had to create the cache directory in .expo

mkdir .expo/cache

Ha ha ha. That only appeared to help.