Attempt to update hangs

[firthmj]

I'm attempting to update a system that has had a previous version of sdpoker installed to the latest, and the recommended command:

sudo npm install -g AMWA-TV/sdpoker

just hangs with

[..................] / rollbackFailedOptional: verb npm-session 89a985adcaa160e1

The hash at the end changes each time, but nothing else ever happens, even if left for many minutes.

Is there something obvious that is likely to be causing this?

[peterbrightwell]

I had a similar problem a few days ago and iirc sudo -E fixed it (passes environment). Can't reproduce it now though as think npm version has changed.

[firthmj]

It looks like it may be some problem with npm interacting with the git repository - I ran sudo npm install -g . in a local check out, and that seems to have worked.

[jonathan-r-thorpe]

Possibly related, but fresh install on Ubuntu 20.04 using sudo npm install -g AMWA-TV/sdpoker resulted in the following fail:

> npm ERR! command git --no-replace-objects ls-remote ssh://[email protected]/AMWA-TV/sdpoker.git
> npm ERR! [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
> npm ERR! fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

However, @peterbrightwell's suggestion of using sudo -E to pass the environment fixed this.