Grpc: node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)

[ramswish]

What version of gRPC and what language are you using?

[email protected]

What operating system (Linux, Windows,...) and version?

rhel_7.2-generic-160915-1_1_2_0

What runtime / compiler are you using (e.g. python version or version of gcc)

node js v10.16.0.

What did you do?

1. git clone -b v1.25.0 https://github.com/grpc/grpc
2. cd grpc/examples/node/dynamic_codegen
3. npm install

What did you expect to see?

Expect to install grpc properly

What did you see instead?

05:45:55@0-9:(~/ram/grpc/examples/node/dynamic_codegen)$npm install

[email protected] install /root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc
node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for [email protected] and [email protected] (node-v64 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/src/node'
gyp WARN EACCES current user does not have permission to access the dev dir "/root/.cache/node-gyp/10.16.0"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/.node-gyp'
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v10.16.0-linux-x64/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v10.16.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--library=static_library" "--module=/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v64-linux-x64-glibc/grpc_node.node" "--module_name=grpc_node" "--module_path=/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v64-linux-x64-glibc" "--napi_version=4" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--napi_build_version=0" "--node_napi_label=node-v64"
gyp ERR! cwd /root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc
gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.5
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v10.16.0-linux-x64/bin/node /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v10.16.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v64-linux-x64-glibc/grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v64-linux-x64-glibc --napi_version=4 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v64' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess. (/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:198:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:982:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v10.16.0-linux-x64/bin/node" "/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build" "--library=static_library"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.16.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.14.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute '/usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v10.16.0-linux-x64/bin/node /usr/local/lib/nodejs/node-v10.16.0-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v64-linux-x64-glibc/grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=/root/ram/grpc/examples/node/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v64-linux-x64-glibc --napi_version=4 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v64' (1)
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.
npm WARN [email protected] No license field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2020-01-21T05_46_43_918Z-debug.log

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Anything else we should know about your project / environment?

[ramswish]

following link solved this issue. Closing it.

https://docs.npmjs.com/resolving-eacces-permissions-errors-when-installing-packages-globally#reinstall-npm-with-a-node-version-manager

[MrEmanuel]

I found that the problem was that the package request was missing.
Installing it before installing grpc fixed my issues.
If you have a package depending on grpc, install request first.

yarn add request
yarn add grpc

A colleague mentioned that some the package "spike" is used if request is not available and that doesn't play nice with the company proxy. Dunno if that's actually the problem, but adding request did fix the issue.

[MSayib]

@MrEmanuel what about using NPM?
Im always getting that error if "any project that has firebase" inside it
or even when i want to install firebase globally, it always triggered to be installed but always error, i wish i know what happened inside it or whats wrong with my npm (i occurs too with yarn actually)