isaacs/npm — Issue #1551: Ubuntu issues -- hang -- node turns into a zombie process
Author: digitalrinaldo
Created: 2011-10-14 01:10:11+00:00
State: open

I just installed node and went to install npm

npm.11721 npm.11759 npm-install-11719.sh npm-install-11757.sh ssh-eCTjM10702
root@ip-10-117-43-116:/tmp# curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | clean=no sh
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 6366 100 6366 0 0 52517 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 88416
tar=/bin/tar
version:
tar (GNU tar) 1.23
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
fetching: http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.96.tgz

I tried it 3 times, CTRL-C was not processed, npm left running.

root 11752 1 15 01:01 pts/0 00:01:06 [node]
root 11790 1 3 01:03 pts/0 00:00:11 [node]
root 11821 1 68 01:04 pts/0 00:02:46 [node]