isaacs/npm — Issue #2046: NPM having issues fetching from registry
Author: yameen
Created: 2012-01-16 14:12:07+00:00
State: open

I get the following when attempting to install any module, this example is to install validator:
"
$ npm install validator
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/validator
npm ERR! Error: failed to fetch from registry: validator
npm ERR! at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:139:12
npm ERR! at cb (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:32:9)
npm ERR! at Request._callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:137:18)
npm ERR! at Request.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:104:22)
npm ERR! at Request. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:181:58)
npm ERR! at Request.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR! at ClientRequest. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:178:10)
npm ERR! at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream. (http.js:1127:11)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Darwin 10.8.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "validator"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/kingswood/nodejs_code/picpush
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.7
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.0-beta-10
npm ERR! message failed to fetch from registry: validator
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/kingswood/nodejs_code/picpush/npm-debug.log
npm not ok"

Any help/pointers appreciated, few people are now having this issue.