npm ERR! asyncWrite is not a function

Question

npm install -g firebase-tools npm ERR! asyncWrite is not a function npm ERR! pna.nextTick is not a function

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR! /home/developer/.npm/_logs/2018-05-30T05_42_20_569Z-debug.log

.log data

/home/developer/.npm/_logs/2018-05-30T05_42_20_569Z-debug.log0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', 1 verbose cli   '/usr/local/bin/npm', 1 verbose cli   'install', 1 verbose cli   '-g', 1 verbose cli   'firebase-tools' ] 2 info using [email protected] 3 info using [email protected] 4 verbose npm-session 4ca1ad6ed9bde18f 5 silly install loadCurrentTree 6 silly install readGlobalPackageData 7 verbose stack TypeError: asyncWrite is not a function 7 verbose stack     at onwrite (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:480:7) 7 verbose stack     at WritableState.onwrite (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:180:5) 7 verbose stack     at WriteStream.to [as _worker] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/node_modules/make-fetch-happen/cache.js:154:13) 7 verbose stack     at WriteStream._write (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mississippi/node_modules/flush-write-stream/index.js:35:13) 7 verbose stack     at doWrite (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:428:64) 7 verbose stack     at writeOrBuffer (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:417:5) 7 verbose stack     at WriteStream.Writable.write (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:334:11) 7 verbose stack     at WriteStream.to [as _worker] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/node_modules/make-fetch-happen/cache.js:171:25) 7 verbose stack     at WriteStream._write (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mississippi/node_modules/flush-write-stream/index.js:35:13) 7 verbose stack     at doWrite (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:428:64) 7 verbose stack     at writeOrBuffer (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:417:5) 7 verbose stack     at WriteStream.Writable.write (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:334:11) 7 verbose stack     at WriteStream.to [as _worker] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/node_modules/make-fetch-happen/cache.js:182:19) 7 verbose stack     at WriteStream._write (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mississippi/node_modules/flush-write-stream/index.js:35:13) 7 verbose stack     at doWrite (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:428:64) 7 verbose stack     at writeOrBuffer (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/readable-stream/lib/_stream_writable.js:417:5) 8 verbose cwd /home/developer/Development/host2 9 verbose Linux 4.15.0-22-generic 10 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "firebase-tools" 11 verbose node v10.3.0 12 verbose npm  v6.1.0 13 error asyncWrite is not a function 14 verbose exit [ 1, true ] 

npm -v :6.1.0
node -v :v10.3.0
os :Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
graphics :AMD® Juniper
processor:Intel® Core™ i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz × 8
os type : 64-bit

Answer 1

The solution mentioned by DKebler did not work for me either, still got the same error and debug log.

I had also to downgrade.

Command Lines

sudo npm cache clean -f  sudo n 8.11.2