isaacs/npm — Issue #1656: gzip error while trying to do npm install
Author: wgaybrick
Created: 2011-11-05 08:57:54+00:00
State: open

The log is below. I googled for this for awhile, and saw a few posts vaguely on point, but nothing that was helpful. I would appreciate any advice.

npm WARN gzip@0.1.0 package.json: bugs['web'] should probably be bugs['url']
npm ERR! Failed unpacking /var/folders/6v/7rf3gx696xg5td6bfqr3rj7r0000gn/T/npm-1320483337843/1320483337843-0.872313582804054/tmp.tgz
npm ERR! couldn't unpack /var/folders/6v/7rf3gx696xg5td6bfqr3rj7r0000gn/T/npm-1320483337843/1320483337843-0.872313582804054/tmp.tgz to /var/folders/6v/7rf3gx696xg5td6bfqr3rj7r0000gn/T/npm-1320483337843/1320483337843-0.872313582804054/contents
npm ERR! error installing express@2.2.0 Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/var/folders/6v/7rf3gx696xg5td6bfqr3rj7r0000gn/T/npm-1320483337843/1320483337843-0.872313582804054/tmp.tgz"`
npm ERR! error installing express@2.2.0 failed with 2
npm ERR! error installing express@2.2.0 at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/tar.js:219:20)
npm ERR! error installing express@2.2.0 at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! error installing express@2.2.0 at ChildProcess.onexit (child_process.js:192:12)
npm ERR! Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/var/folders/6v/7rf3gx696xg5td6bfqr3rj7r0000gn/T/npm-1320483337843/1320483337843-0.872313582804054/tmp.tgz"`
npm ERR! failed with 2
npm ERR! at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/tar.js:219:20)
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.onexit (child_process.js:192:12)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Darwin 11.2.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/willgaybrick/programming/projects/hello_world_of_node
npm ERR! node -v v0.4.11
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.103
npm ERR!