Fractal: Cannot run `fractal start --sync`

[adampoczatek]

Hey, this is probably a very simple issue and I was wondering if someone could help me?

Basically, I followed the instructions but for some reason I can't run it with fractal start --sync - there's no error or anything, I can see that table with _Fractal web UI server is running!_ message and 3 URLs, but the command seems to be immediately executed (rather than being alive until you manually stop the server).

I managed to run it using the interactive mode though.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Adam

[agarzola]

FWIW, I was just experiencing this issue when running an npm script that started fractal start --sync. Reinstalling all deps with yarn fixed it, which _may_ indicate that a sibling or linked dependency was not being met?

[shawnbot]

I'm having this problem too, and @agarzola's fix didn't work for me. I've tried blowing away node_modules and re-running npm install, and I've tried yarn install (much faster!), but the server doesn't stay up; the process just exits immediately.

Oddly, running fractal to get into the CLI then running start --sync from there works, as @donjo discovered today.

[yhuard]

I had the same issue: works from the interactive cli, not with fractal start --sync. I had an older yarn.lock which was working. After diffing it with the new one, I found out that vorpal has been updated to 1.12.0 while it was 1.11.4 in my working yarn.lock...

Adding "vorpal": "1.11.4", in my dependencies seems to fix this issue 😉

[adampoczatek]

Nice one, @yhuard! npm install --save-dev [email protected] worked for me!

[dkhuntrods]

Thanks for investigating this all. So vorpal 1.12.x seems to be breaking things in the CLI. The current package.json is matching major releases from 1.11.2, so perhaps we need to minor match that instead, until we find out what's changed in 1.12.x.

[joliejuke-orga]

npm install --save-dev [email protected] worked for me too :)

[dkhuntrods]

Right, I've pushed an update that should fix vorpal to < 12.0.0. Let me know if anyone still has issues after this; otherwise I'll close in a bit.

[yhuard]

@dkhuntrods so far so good, "@frctl/fractal": "1.1.4" works like a charm. Thanks for your quick update!