Docker npm install fails

Question

I'm trying to build an ASP.Net 5.0 web app using Docker, but it fails when it reaches the npm install step, with:

Step 14 : RUN npm install
 ---> Running in 15c191d1ca1d
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please use Karma directly: https://github.com/karma-runner/gulp-karma
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs version 3 and before will fail on newer node releases. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs version 3 and before will fail on newer node releases. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs version 3 and before will fail on newer node releases. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this package has been reintegrated into npm and is now out of date with respect to npm
npm WARN prefer global [email protected] should be installed with -g
npm WARN prefer global [email protected] should be installed with -g

> [email protected] install /app/src/CDWebDesigner/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

Binary downloaded and installed at /app/src/CDWebDesigner/node_modules/node-sass/vendor/linux-x64-11/binding.node

> [email protected] postinstall /app/src/CDWebDesigner/node_modules/spawn-sync
> node postinstall

Installing native dependencies (this may take up to a minute)

> [email protected] postinstall /app/src/CDWebDesigner/node_modules/node-sass
> node scripts/build.js



The command 'npm install' returned a non-zero code: 1

ERROR: Build failed with: exit status 1

I can't see any errors here that explain why it's failing, only WARNings. I assume this must either be a problem with the npm installation or the modules it's trying to install. [email protected] says it will fail on newer npm installs, but I don't know how to update this, or which of the dependencies is pulling this in.

Dockerfile

FROM microsoft/aspnet:1.0.0-rc1-final

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | bash -
RUN apt-get install -y nodejs
RUN apt-get install bzip2

RUN curl -L https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

# Install bower
RUN npm install -g bower

# Install Gulp
RUN npm install -g gulp

# Install Git (for bower)
RUN apt-get -y install git

COPY . /app
WORKDIR /app
RUN ["dnu", "restore"]

WORKDIR ./src/myapp

RUN ["npm", "install"]
RUN ["bower", "install", "--allow-root"]
RUN ["gulp", "prod"]

EXPOSE 5000
CMD dnx kestrel

package.json

{
  "name": "ASP.NET",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "devDependencies": {
    "gulp": "3.8.11",
    "gulp-concat": "2.5.2",
    "gulp-cssmin": "0.1.7",
    "gulp-uglify": "1.2.0",
    "del": "^2.2.0",
    "gulp-sass": "^2.0.4",
    "gulp-typescript": "~2.8.0",
    "main-bower-files": "~2.9.0",
    "gulp-sourcemaps": "~1.5.2",
    "mocha": "~2.2.5",
    "gulp-mocha": "~2.1.3",
    "karma-chai": "~0.1.0",
    "chai": "~3.2.0",
    "karma": "~0.13.9",
    "karma-jasmine": "~0.3.6",
    "karma-phantomjs-launcher": "~0.2.1",
    "karma-spec-reporter": "~0.0.20",
    "gulp-karma": "^0.0.4",
    "gulp-js-obfuscator": "~1.0.0",
    "gulp-order": "^1.1.1",
    "gulp-debug": "^2.1.2"
  }
}

Solution

Not sure, but 1st: you can try install with sudo npm install, and 2nd you can try to install on this machine node-gyp and pyton 2.7 . If module during installation require compilation of node extension, then you will need these two things.

3rd. How we usually debug: Create an image on the state before failing command. run container with interactive shell (with -it). login inside. And run npm install by hands. See and understand output there. Fix.

Comments

[user882807]

Thanks. I built the image up to the failing command and ran npm install manually which gave more information about the errors - there were some conflicting dependencies.