Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'cat' of module exports inside circular dependency

[enjoy-myLife]

Type of issue

yo initialization command error

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My environment

• OS version/details: Windows 10 64-bit
• Node version: 20.16.0
• npm version: 10.8.1
• Version of yo : 5.0.0

Expected behavior

The yo webapp command can be used normally

Step1: npm i yo generator-webapp -g
Step2: yo webapp
Then it reported an error

Current behavior

o webapp

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Step1: npm i yo generator-webapp -g
Step2: yo webapp

Command line output

(base) PS E:\personal\cli> pnpm i yo generator-webapp -g
 ERR_PNPM_NO_GLOBAL_BIN_DIR  Unable to find the global bin directory
Run "pnpm setup" to create it automatically, or set the global-bin-dir setting, or the PNPM_HOME env variable. The global bin directory should be in the PATH.
(base) PS E:\personal\cli> ^C
(base) PS E:\personal\cli> ^C
(base) PS E:\personal\cli> ^C
(base) PS E:\personal\cli> ^C
(base) PS E:\personal\cli> ^C
(base) PS E:\personal\cli> npm i yo generator-webapp -g
npm warn deprecated npmlog@2.0.4: This package is no longer supported.
npm warn deprecated gauge@1.2.7: This package is no longer supported.
npm warn deprecated are-we-there-yet@1.1.7: This package is no longer supported.
npm warn deprecated boolean@3.2.0: Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.
npm warn deprecated source-map-url@0.4.1: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-url#deprecated
npm warn deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm warn deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm warn deprecated source-map-resolve@0.5.3: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-resolve#deprecated
npm warn deprecated inflight@1.0.6: This module is not supported, and leaks memory. Do not use it. Check out lru-cache if you want a good and tested way to coalesce async requests by a key value, which is much more comprehensive and powerful.
npm warn deprecated glob@7.2.3: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated rimraf@2.7.1: Rimraf versions prior to v4 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated rimraf@3.0.2: Rimraf versions prior to v4 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated glob@6.0.4: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported
npm warn deprecated glob@6.0.4: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported

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(base) PS E:\personal\cli> yo webapp
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'cat' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'cd' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'chmod' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'cp' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'dirs' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'popd' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'echo' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'tempdir' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'pwd' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'ls' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'find' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'grep' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'head' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'ln' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'mkdir' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'rm' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'mv' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'sed' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'sort' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'tail' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'test' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'to' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'toEnd' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'touch' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'uniq' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:17660) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'which' of module exports inside circular dependency
Error webapp 

generator.run is not a function

[gba-foundever]

Hi,
Got exactly same issue:

• OS version/details: MacOs 15.0.1
• Node version: 23.3.0
• npm version: 10.9.0
• Version of yo : 5.0.0

Any solution to this ?

But generator work at the end

Tks

[bschools]

I'm having the same issue:

OS version/details: WSL/Ubuntu
Node version: 22.11.0
npm version: 10.9.2
Version of yo : 5.1.0

[JoshuaKGoldberg]

Duplicate of yeoman/generator-webapp#789.