I am trying to install packages with bower. No matter what package I seem to try to install, bower outputs nothing and hangs. The verbose flag does not give more information.
strace outputs a long series of:
gettimeofday({1401644126, 563885}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1401644126, 563944}, NULL) = 0
futex(0xb720046c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
And lsof outputs:
strace 19125 matt rtd DIR 8,6 4096 2 /
strace 19125 matt txt REG 8,6 264024 3550363 /usr/bin/strace
strace 19125 matt mem REG 8,6 1758972 263074 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
strace 19125 matt mem REG 8,6 134380 264066 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
strace 19125 matt 0u CHR 136,15 0t0 18 /dev/pts/15
strace 19125 matt 1u CHR 136,15 0t0 18 /dev/pts/15
strace 19125 matt 2u CHR 136,15 0t0 18 /dev/pts/15
npm is version 1.4.13 and bower is 1.3.3.
The expected behavior is that the package be installed. Any idea what is happening?
Answer
I believe this problem is fixed by commit 23fbbb51915d532a23ce0faafcc140663fbc008e.
Re-installing bower from master fixed the problem:
sudo npm install -g git://github.com/bower/bower#master