NPM Install with package.json exits during extract --> gunzTarPerm with no error message

Question

I have a strange issue with npm install. I am just running npm install within my project with a package.json in the same directory

Here's the relevant part of the package.json http://pastebin.com/zgT6eRxC

Everythings seems to go ok until it's hits this part in the process

extract → gunzTarPerm

I ran npm install --verbose but it just gets to here and stops/exits without any error message or text. My node_modules is left incomplete.

I don't know if this is relevant but before this last line it's nuking a bunch of files

Example

npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking /<path>/node_modules/.staging/require-bede8d129b4b602814b0d94932a5f956

Software Versions:

NPM - 3.3.12
Node - 5.1.0
Ubuntu - 14.04.03

Does anyone have a clue on what's going on here. I can do npm install on my Arch Linux dev machine and everything install fine. I'm not sure what's missing with my Ubuntu installation.

Thanks

Answer 1

Answering my own question. Was running this on a 512MB DigitalOcean Ubuntu Server. Turns out there was not enough memory to finish things up. I made a swap file and it finishes.

Here a link on how to make a swap file https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04