isaacs/npm — Issue #2217: npm registry is down!
Author: vpulim
Created: 2012-02-29 16:53:41+00:00
State: open

Any attempt to access the npm registry results in a `ucs {bad_utf8_character_code}` error.

For example:

npm ERR! Error: ucs {bad_utf8_character_code}: forever
npm ERR! at Request._callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:182:12)
npm ERR! at Request.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:109:22)
npm ERR! at Request. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:481:18)
npm ERR! at Request.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! at IncomingMessage. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/main.js:442:16)
npm ERR! at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR! at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http.js:137:23)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream.ondata (http.js:1147:24)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream._push (tls.js:367:27)
npm ERR! at SecurePair.cycle (tls.js:688:20)
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Darwin 11.1.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "forever"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/vp/Dropbox/dev/milewise
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.9
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.0-2
npm ERR! message ucs {bad_utf8_character_code}: forever
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/vp/Dropbox/dev/milewise/npm-debug.log
npm not ok