npm install hangs on loadIdealTree:loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree: sill install loadIdealTree

Question

I have a Node.js application. When I try to run npm install it hangs with this:

loadIdealTree:loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree: sill install loadIdealTree 

npm install --verbose gives me a little extra info:

npm info it worked if it ends with ok npm verb cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', npm verb cli   '/usr/local/bin/npm', npm verb cli   'install', npm verb cli   '--verbose', npm verb cli   'aws-sdk-js' ] npm info using [email protected] npm info using [email protected] npm verb npm-session ea38310110279de7 npm http fetch GET 404 https://registry.npmjs.org/aws-sdk-js 2211ms npm verb stack Error: 404 Not Found: aws-sdk-js@latest npm verb stack     at fetch.then.res (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/pacote/lib/fetchers/registry/fetch.js:42:19) npm verb stack     at tryCatcher (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23) npm verb stack     at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:512:31) npm verb stack     at Promise._settlePromise (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:569:18) npm verb stack     at Promise._settlePromise0 (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:614:10) npm verb stack     at Promise._settlePromises (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:693:18) npm verb stack     at Async._drainQueue (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:133:16) npm verb stack     at Async._drainQueues (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:143:10) npm verb stack     at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14) npm verb stack     at runCallback (timers.js:789:20) npm verb stack     at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:751:5) npm verb stack     at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:722:5) npm verb cwd /Users/me/git/aws-sdk-js-perf npm verb Darwin 17.5.0 npm verb argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "--verbose" "aws-sdk-js" npm verb node v8.9.2 npm verb npm  v5.8.0 npm ERR! code E404 npm ERR! 404 Not Found: aws-sdk-js@latest npm verb exit [ 1, true ]  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR!     /Users/me/.npm/_logs/2018-05-24T10_30_55_688Z-debug.log 

I came across instances where other people experienced this but the below seemed to resolve their issue. It doesn't fix mine:

npm set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/ 

Does anybody know what might be wrong?

Answer 1

Had the same issue, and this comment here fixed it for me:

Try to remove 'package-lock.json' file from directory where 'package.json' locate.