Build Che Using Docker - npm error

[motorina0]

Trying to "Build Che Using Docker" as described here:
https://github.com/eclipse/che/wiki/Development-Workflow#build-che-using-docker

Reproduction Steps:

1. Install latest version of Docker Toolbox
2. Start and connect to the VM
3. Run the docker command for running the Che build (see docker-che-build.txt)

Expected behavior:
Build runs with success. On my host's Maven repo I have all the Che artifacts

Observed behavior:
Build Fails with:
An Ant BuildException has occured: exec returned: 185 around Ant part ...... @ 4:82 in /home/user/che-build/dashboard/target/antrun/build-main.xml

Attached two files with the logs from "docker run" and "npm" (docker-che-build.txt and npm-debug.log )

Che version: Source Code (branch created from tag 4.6.1)
OS and version: Windows 7 Profesional
Docker version:
Client:
Version: 1.12.0
API version: 1.24
Go version: go1.6.3
Git commit: 8eab29e
Built: Thu Jul 28 23:54:00 2016
OS/Arch: linux/amd64

Server:
Version: 1.12.0
API version: 1.24
Go version: go1.6.3
Git commit: 8eab29e
Built: Thu Jul 28 23:54:00 2016
OS/Arch: linux/amd64

Che install: Docker

Additional information:
Increased VM memory from 1 GB to 3GB, but build still fails.

• Problem started happening recently, didn't happen in an older version of Che: [Yes/No]
  • older versions did not had build using Che
• Problem can be reliably reproduced, doesn't happen randomly: [Yes]

[motorina0]

Log files:
docker-che-build.txt
npm-debug.log.txt

[TylerJewell]

@benoitf - assigned to you.

[ghost]

@motorina0 This is a VBox issue. When dashboard is built, a symlink is created. Since project sources are mounted in your Windows OS, it is not allowed to create symlinks there.

npm/npm#9901 similar issue

[benoitf]

@motorina0 could you add after line
https://github.com/eclipse/che/blob/master/dashboard/pom.xml#L63

 <arg value=" --no-bin-links" />

[motorina0]

updated like this:

       <!-- Download NPM dependencies -->
       <exec dir="${basedir}" executable="npm" failonerror="true">
          <arg value="install" />
          <arg value="--no-bin-links" />
       </exec>

Got new error:

     [exec] npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
     [exec] npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
     [exec]
     [exec] (null):0
     [exec] (null)
     [exec]
     [exec] RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.8:run (compile) on project che-dashboard-war: An Ant BuildException has occured: exec returned: 7
[ERROR] around Ant part ...<exec failonerror="true" dir="/home/user/che-build/dashboard" executable="npm">... @ 4:82 in /home/user/che-build/dashboard/target/antrun/build-main.xml

[benoitf]

could you run again ? it seems first run fails while second run succeed with npm --no-bin-links ...
npm/npm#9953

[motorina0]

Second run gave me:

    [exec] npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
     [exec] npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /chokidar/fsevents:
     [exec] npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: [email protected]
     [exec] npm ERR! Linux 4.4.16-boot2docker
     [exec] npm ERR! argv "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "--no-bin-links"
     [exec] npm ERR! node v0.12.9
     [exec] npm ERR! npm  v3.10.5
     [exec] npm ERR! path /home/user/che-build/dashboard/node_modules/ng-annotate-loader/node_modules/source-map
     [exec] npm ERR! code EPERM
     [exec] npm ERR! errno -1
     [exec]
     [exec] npm ERR! Error: EPERM, rename '/home/user/che-build/dashboard/node_modules/ng-annotate-loader/node_modules/source-map'
     [exec] npm ERR!     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/action/finalize.js:64:7
     [exec] npm ERR!     at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/slide/lib/async-map.js:52:35
     [exec] npm ERR!     at Array.forEach (native)
     [exec] [email protected] /home/user/che-build/dashboard
     [exec] ├─┬ [email protected]

See also attached files docker-che-build2.txt and npm-debug2.log.txt

[ghost]

@motorina0 do you absolutely need to build dashboard? Is building just an assembly a way to go for you?

I cannot reproduce it on Ubuntu and CentOS.

[motorina0]

I did wanted to build the dashboard since I wanted to do some customization.
I will run the normal build on Windows then. Thank you.

Issue can be closed from my side.

[motorina0]

It would be useful to specify on the wiki that on Windows with Docker Toolbox there are still some issues.
Just updating the paths does not seam to be enough

# For Windows, replace $HOME with maven repo directory.
# For Windows, replace $PWD with Che source code directory.

[benoitf]

@motorina0 ok thanks for the report I've updated the wiki with a note for errors on Windows for Dashboard module