npm install hangs on idealTree step

Question

I'm trying to install npm, but it consistently hangs on the idealTree step. Here's the trace from -verbose :

npm verb cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'install', '-verbose' ]
npm info using npm@8.1.2
npm info using node@v17.1.0
npm timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:defaults Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:file:/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc Completed in 4ms
npm timing config:load:builtin Completed in 4ms
npm timing config:load:cli Completed in 2ms
npm timing config:load:env Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:file:/home/sacha/myPhoneBook/.npmrc Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:project Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:file:/home/sacha/.npmrc Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:user Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:file:/usr/etc/npmrc Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:global Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:validate Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:credentials Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load Completed in 11ms
npm timing npm:load:configload Completed in 11ms
npm timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 0ms
npm timing npm:load:setupLog Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:flatten Completed in 3ms
npm timing npm:load:cleanupLog Completed in 1ms
npm timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
npm timing npm:load:projectScope Completed in 0ms
npm timing npm:load Completed in 28ms
npm timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms
npm timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms
npm timing idealTree:init Completed in 59ms
npm timing idealTree:userRequests Completed in 0ms
⸨⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⸩ ⠸ idealTree:myPhoneBook: sill idealTree buildDeps

I've seen a few solutions proposed to this online, including setting the registry and removing package-lock.json, but none seemed to work. Could someone suggest another fix ?

Answer 1

Had similiar problems with nodejs with running it on windows 11. I have upgraded and downgraded, cleared cache, etc nothing worked. Installing it on windows10 worked fine though. What OS are u running it on>?

Answer 2

I had this problem too and it might because of bad internet connection. anyway you can use yarn instead and if you have problem with that too try to change the registry with yarn config set registry https://registry.yarnpkg.com.