npm error : cb() never called, what should I do?

Question

Hi everyone.

I've got an error from npm everytime I try to install pacakges. I got this error :

npm ERR! cb() never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR!     <https://npm.community>

I know there's already a topic about my problem but I really tried every solution I could find and not a single one works. I uninstall and reinstall node multiple times, cleaned my cache but I can do nothing !

Here's my package.json

{
  "name": "XXXXXXXXXXX",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node index.js",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "axios": "^0.21.0",
    "discord.js": "^12.4.0",
    "howlongtobeat": "^1.2.1",
    "npm": "^6.14.8"
  },
  "devDependencies": {}
}

Can somebody help me, I don't know what to do, I cannot install a single package ...

Thanks !

Honestly, I don't know but if I delete this package from my package.json, I still got the error. — Pliboux, Nov 06 '20 at 19:26
Does this answer your question? [npm ERR cb() never called](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15393821/npm-err-cb-never-called) — Olian04, Nov 06 '20 at 19:42
Thanks for the link but this is the very first post I saw and I did everything in this one and it doesn't work, I don't know where the error come from .. — Pliboux, Nov 06 '20 at 19:47
I also have a lot a warning before : tar EPERM: operation not permitted , open 'C:\Users\prevo\Desktop\coding_projects\BarkBot\node_modules\.staging\npm-38d46a69\node_modules\retry\equation.gif' and I don't know why I have this kind of thing.. — Pliboux, Nov 06 '20 at 19:48

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 05 '22 at 15:09

5

Just run:

npm cache clean --force
npm cache verify
npm install --global npm

The command lines are self explanatory. One needs to clear (clean) the cache and upgrade npm. After which, it should work.

edited Jan 05 '22 at 15:09

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answered Jan 04 '22 at 20:12

Raul Glez Rdguez

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 26 '21 at 10:11

After spending hours on many recommendations that did not work. I finally got npx create-react-app running by doing the following:

Uninstall npm by running the following code at your command prompt:
```
npm uninstall -g create-react-app
```
Increase timeout by changing/adding this line in your .npmrc file:
```
timeout=60000;
prefer-offline=true;
```
Your .npmrc file can be found in C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm (windows)

Then RESTART your PC
Disable your antivirus (as @Antoine said)

Run the following at the command prompt

npm clean cache --force
npm install create-react-app
npx create-react-app my-app

where my-app is the name of your project

NOTE: I am not using any proxy.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 07 '20 at 14:12

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Ok, I manage to solve my problem by disabling my Antivirus, I don't know why ...

answered Nov 07 '20 at 14:12

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 16 '22 at 14:34

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On our local machine it worked, on Azure Pipelines the mentioned error showed up.

Our solution: Add the 'npmAuthenticate' task before the npm ci command.

> official description of the task

answered Sep 16 '22 at 14:34

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 19 '22 at 12:07

I had the similar problem in internal company project. I was able to reproduce the error and solve it by running npm install --no-package-lock but while running in the jenkins pipeline, the error was not solved. I managed to solve it by disabling the proxies as below:

 sh """
        proxy='' \
        https_proxy='' \
        http_proxy='' \
        npm install
        npm run test
    """

npm error : cb() never called, what should I do?

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