buttercoin doesn't build on ubuntu

[nranjan]

I fixed issue in 54 by updating node using n.
I am building buttercoin on ubuntu linux; this is the error that I am getting now,

module.js:340
throw err;
^
Error: Cannot find module 'graceful-fs'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/ini.js:32:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

I looked around and was wondering is this is relevant http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16600209/require-cannot-find-custom-module-after-moving-to-server

Has the team actually ever tried building buttercoin on ubuntu system?

[RevCBH]

I have built on 12.10. The biggest issue is that the default nodejs in the apt repo is 0.8.x and buttercoin requires at least 0.10.x.

If you're on node < 0.10 give these instructions a try: http://slopjong.de/2012/10/31/how-to-install-the-latest-nodejs-in-ubuntu/

If that doesn't fix it please let me know!

[nranjan]

Thanks, that solved the last issue, I was able to complete npm install with the following warning messages (which I assumed is not an issue):

npm WARN package.json connect@2.7.6 No readme data.
npm WARN package.json isnode@0.0.1 No readme data.
npm WARN package.json chained-emitter@0.1.0 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json chained-emitter@0.1.0 'repositories' (plural) Not supported.
npm WARN package.json Please pick one as the 'repository' field
npm WARN package.json engine.io-client@0.5.0 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json methods@0.0.1 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json methods@0.0.1 No readme data.
npm WARN package.json debug@0.6.0 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json cookie-signature@1.0.1 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json fresh@0.1.0 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json range-parser@0.0.4 No repository field.
npm WARN package.json send@0.1.0 No repository field.

However, there was the following failure during the npm test phase:

buttercoin@0.0.3 test /home/nranjan/buttercoin
sh test.sh

events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: spawn ENOENT
at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)

[nranjan]

And this is the problem with npm start

buttercoin@0.0.3 start /home/nranjan/buttercoin
bin/dev-standalone

Error: Cannot find module 'options'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/node_modules/ws/lib/WebSocket.js:14:15)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/node_modules/ws/index.js:7:18)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/lib/ews/ws_listener.coffee:7:21)
at Object. (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/lib/ews/ws_listener.coffee:84:4)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.loadFile (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/coffee-script.js:24:19)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/lib/ews/ew_server.coffee:13:23)
at Object. (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/lib/ews/ew_server.coffee:125:4)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.loadFile (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/coffee-script.js:24:19)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/bin/dev-standalone:5:27)
at Object. (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/bin/dev-standalone:17:4)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.exports.run (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/coffee-script.js:124:25)
at compileScript (/home/nranjan/buttercoin/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/command.js:166:29)
at /home/nranjan/buttercoin/node_modules/coffee-script/lib/coffee-script/command.js:141:18
at fs.js:266:14
at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:107:15)
npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[pghalliday]

I have just added a Vagrant config that sets up a Ubuntu 12.04 server virtual environment and everything seems to work OK on that. If you want to use it then see https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoin/blob/master/doc/VAGRANT.md

[nranjan]

I just spent the last few hours setting up vagrant, on my 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04 machine, the steps for setting up vagrant for a 32 bit Ubuntu 12.04 box misses one step vagrant init precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box.

I upgraded the node.js version to greater than 0.10 as suggested in the last post, still I'm getting the exact same problem that I posted above. Looks like that is the center of the issue.

[pghalliday]

You shouldn't have needed to run vagrant init. There is already a Vagrantfile in the project. You do need to run the vagrant commands from the the root of the project though. I will add that to the readme.

It also occurred to me that the Vagrantfile references a 64 bit Ubuntu image from https://opscode-vm.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/opscode_ubuntu-12.04_provisionerless.box

If you're on a 32bit host i'm not sure how it will deal with a 64bit VM (I never tried that)

[jcrubino]

I am using the vagrant methods to get buttercoin up and runing but this has come up.
Googled and could not find the fix for this.

vagrant@buttercoin:/vagrant$ npm test

buttercoin@0.0.3 test /vagrant
sh test.sh

events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: spawn ENOENT
at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)

[pghalliday]

I just did this:

$ git clone https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoin.git
$ cd buttercoin
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
vagrant@buttercoin:~$ cd /vagrant/
vagrant@buttercoin:/vagrant$ npm install
vagrant@buttercoin:/vagrant$ npm test

and it worked fine.

What host OS are you using?

On a windows host I have had to resave test.sh with unix line endings after the checkout so that it doesn't get confused when calling cake with the test task.

Also at work I have to run the following from within the VM before npm install in order to workaround a firewall issue with git urls.

vagrant@buttercoin:/vagrant$ git config --global url."https://".insteadOf git://