Nvm: Doesn't work on fresh install

[ghost]

I get the following error as soon as I source my ~/.zshrc

/home/taxborn/.nvm/nvm.sh:2038: parse error near `)'

I believe I have done everything right, and in the screen shot you can see that I have just installed it. Here is the line(s) in question.

  if ! (
    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
    command mkdir -p "${TMPDIR}" && \
    command "${tar}" -x${tar_compression_flag}f "${TARBALL}" -C "${TMPDIR}" --strip-components 1 && \
    VERSION_PATH="$(nvm_version_path "${PREFIXED_VERSION}")" && \
    nvm_cd "${TMPDIR}" && \
    nvm_echo '$>'./configure --prefix="${VERSION_PATH}" $ADDITIONAL_PARAMETERS'<' && \
    ./configure --prefix="${VERSION_PATH}" $ADDITIONAL_PARAMETERS && \
    $make -j "${NVM_MAKE_JOBS}" ${MAKE_CXX-} && \
    command rm -f "${VERSION_PATH}" 2>/dev/null && \
    $make -j "${NVM_MAKE_JOBS}" ${MAKE_CXX-} install
  ); then # <--- This is line 2038
    nvm_err "nvm: install ${VERSION} failed!"
    command rm -rf "${TMPDIR-}"
    return 1
  fi

Thank you!

[ljharb]

You'll note how the install script adds nvm lines to bashrc; but you're then using zshrc.

Does nvm work fine in bash? What's your zshrc look like?

[ghost]

It works fine in bash, and I have it added in my .zshrc.

Here are the lines of code added:

#NVM
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"  # This loads nvm
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"  # This loads nvm bash_completion

[ljharb]

I'm very confused :-/ the line in question hasn't changed in a long time, and if there was a syntax error, every zsh user would have been complaining for awhile now.

Can you share the rest of your zshrc, as well as the output of setopt?

[ghost]

setopt:

autocd
autopushd
completeinword
extendedhistory
noflowcontrol
histexpiredupsfirst
histignoredups
histignorespace
histverify
incappendhistory
interactive
interactivecomments
longlistjobs
monitor
promptsubst
pushdignoredups
pushdminus
sharehistory
shinstdin
zle

.zshrc

Yeah, this worked before, I used NVM for about a year and this only has happened in the past few weeks..

[ljharb]

One thing that would be helpful is (assuming you're on v0.33.11 now) downgrading to v0.33.10, and seeing if the problem still occurs?

[ljharb]

My stock zsh has:

combiningchars
interactive
monitor
nonomatch
shinstdin
zle

which means that the delta is:

alwaystoend
autocd
autopushd
completeinword
extendedhistory
noflowcontrol
histexpiredupsfirst
histignoredups
histignorespace
histverify
incappendhistory
interactivecomments
longlistjobs
promptsubst
pushdignoredups
pushdminus
sharehistory

If you try a binary search on those options - disabling half, try again, re-enable and disable the other half, etc - that also would help determine the fix.

[ghost]

Hmm, same error, same line.. I can go into bash and install the node version I want, but still in ZSH it still seems to be the same error in v0.33.10 running the command:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.10/install.sh | bash

[ljharb]

Thanks - if you're willing, we could also try going back farther - v0.33.0, v0.32.0 - trying to pin down which version it stopped working for you.

[ghost]

Alright, I tried v0.32.0 Still get the same parse error, but different line

/home/taxborn/.nvm/nvm.sh:1867: parse error near `)'

Is it worth mentioning I use Oh My Zsh too?

[ghost]

Also in v0.31.0, line 1428. This is pretty damn confusing

[ljharb]

(yes, it was worth mentioning, but i inferred it from your zshrc - omz tends to break nvm all the time because it sets a bunch of nonstandard options)

Let's keep jumping back versions - v0.15.0 if needed :-) I'll need two things to fix it - the version where it broke (so i can find the commit that broke it) and then likely the zsh option that's causing it to be parsed differently.

[ghost]

I have some good news, v0.15.0 works without error! I'll go ahead and try to pinpoint the version. (somewhere between v0.31.0 and v0.15.0). Could you explain to me how I could find the ZSH option that could be impacting it?

[ghost]

Sweet, it works in v0.26.1 but not in v0.27.0. So somewhere in there something broke, at least for my setopt settings..

[ljharb]

Thanks, that's the first step :-) https://github.com/creationix/nvm/compare/v0.26.1...v0.27.0 has a bunch of things.

For the options, you can use unsetopt alwaystoend etc, to unset the options (before sourcing nvm.sh) and see which one makes it fail.

[ghost]

Alright, after trying to binary-search my way through the setopt and unsetopt process, nothing came out of it. Still the same parse error :frowning:

[ljharb]

Since nobody else has reported this, and the user has deleted their github account, I'm going to close this.

Happy to reopen if there's a way to repro.