sfdx-cli@7.46.1 will not install from npm, Cannot read property 'match' of undefined

[egroenen]

Summary

sfdx-cli from npm is failing to install at latest version, which is breaking CI/CD pipelines.

The following command will fail from a virgin node latest docker:

shell% npm install sfdx-cli --global

Steps To Reproduce:

1. docker run -it node:13.8.0-alpine3.10 /bin/ash
2. npm install sfdx-cli --global
3. sfdx fails to install

Expected result

1. docker run -it node:13.8.0-alpine3.10 /bin/ash
2. npm install sfdx-cli --global
3. sfdx installs

Actual result

2465 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@salesforce/command/-/command-1.5.0.tgz 73ms
2466 silly pacote version manifest for @salesforce/command@1.5.0 fetched in 78ms
2467 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 0ms
2468 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 45418ms
2469 verbose stack TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined
2469 verbose stack     at tarballToVersion (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/inflate-shrinkwrap.js:87:20)
2469 verbose stack     at inflatableChild (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/inflate-shrinkwrap.js:99:22)
2469 verbose stack     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/inflate-shrinkwrap.js:55:12
2469 verbose stack     at tryCatcher (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
2469 verbose stack     at Object.gotValue (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/reduce.js:155:18)
2469 verbose stack     at Object.gotAccum (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/reduce.js:144:25)
2469 verbose stack     at Object.tryCatcher (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
2469 verbose stack     at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:517:31)
2469 verbose stack     at Promise._settlePromise (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:574:18)
2469 verbose stack     at Promise._settlePromiseCtx (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:611:10)
2469 verbose stack     at _drainQueueStep (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:142:12)
2469 verbose stack     at _drainQueue (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:131:9)
2469 verbose stack     at Async._drainQueues (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:147:5)
2469 verbose stack     at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14)
2469 verbose stack     at processImmediate (internal/timers.js:456:21)

Workarounds

1. install the previous version of sfdx: npm install sfdx-cli@7.45.1 --global
2. Use yarn

Additional information

SFDX CLI Version(to find the version of the CLI engine run sfdx --version):

SFDX plugin Version(to find the version of the CLI plugin run sfdx plugins --core)

OS and version:

[amphro]

I'm able to reproduce but I'm not sure why yet. Another workaround is to use yarn.

[nvuillam]

I have exactly the same error on Jenkins (Dockerfile running on linux) and on Windows
Had to downgrade to the previous version so it works again

npm install -g sfdx-cli@7.45.1

[VonRehberg]

Same here. Pipeline is not working since sunday:

Step 6/13 : RUN npm install sfdx-cli --global
 ---> Running in 3c5123c60c9a
npm WARN deprecated samsam@1.3.0: This package has been deprecated in favour of @sinonjs/samsam
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm ERR! Cannot read property 'match' of undefined

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-02-17T15_03_51_842Z-debug.log
The command '/bin/sh -c npm install sfdx-cli --global' returned a non-zero code: 1

[amphro]

I'll take a look at this today and post when I have an update.

[Kevmo92]

Same here. Yarn or an older version than 7.46.1 are the current workarounds.

[jcory]

We're also experiencing this.

[amphro]

We were hoping patch 7.46.2 would resolve the issue but it doesn't look like it did. We are having trouble finding the root cause. I will post an update when we have one but this could take a bit longer to find.

[joaoheytor]

Same issue here... :'(
The latest version that is working is 7.45.1...

I tried all the others above that, including the newest 7.46.2 but I found the same issue...

[gbutt]

Found the issue: in salesforcedx package there is a dependency on "@salesforce/sfdx-plugin-lwc-test": "0.1.1". This version has a bad npm-shrinkwrap.json, and should be updated t version 0.1.3

[salesforcedoc]

thanks @gbutt! i was about to look myself!

[amphro]

We just pushed 7.46.3 to fix the issue. Give it a go.