npm fails on windows 10 insider preview build 14366

Question

It seems that npm is broken (as well as the nodejs itself) on the new windows version build 1433

This is what happens when I ran

npm -v

events.js:141 throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event ^

Error: This socket is closed. at WriteStream.Socket._writeGeneric (net.js:640:19) at WriteStream.Socket._write (net.js:694:8) at doWrite (_stream_writable.js:292:12) at writeOrBuffer (_stream_writable.js:278:5) at WriteStream.Writable.write (_stream_writable.js:207:11) at WriteStream.Socket.write (net.js:618:40) at WriteStream.stream.write (C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_m at Cursor.write (C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\npmlo at Cursor.(anonymous function) [as show] (C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modul at Object.ProgressBar.hide (C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_mo 3.9.5

I've tried npm upgrade, but does not help much.

Are there any hotfix solutions or why this could happen?

Answer 1

From what I can see this is a known issue with some version of Windows 10: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/12887 . I find the proposed solution a bit weird - that the issue is presented only when you change the width of the console away from the default. You might give it a try. As it doesn't sound very plausible I am adding the github comment where I found it: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/12887#issuecomment-222525339 Also running the command prompt in legacy mode seems to be another workaround.