[BUG] <cb() never called>

[deepakraj1110]

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Current Behavior

182 silly pacote version manifest for ts-pnp@1.2.0 fetched in 331ms
183 silly resolveWithNewModule ts-pnp@1.2.0 checking installable status
184 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/url-loader 300ms (from cache)
185 silly pacote version manifest for url-loader@4.1.1 fetched in 320ms
186 silly resolveWithNewModule url-loader@4.1.1 checking installable status
187 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/webpack 256ms (from cache)
188 silly pacote version manifest for webpack@4.44.2 fetched in 338ms
189 silly resolveWithNewModule webpack@4.44.2 checking installable status
190 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/webpack-manifest-plugin 225ms (from cache)
191 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/workbox-webpack-plugin 204ms
192 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/webpack-dev-server 247ms (from cache)
193 silly pacote version manifest for webpack-manifest-plugin@2.2.0 fetched in 252ms
194 silly resolveWithNewModule webpack-manifest-plugin@2.2.0 checking installable status
195 silly pacote version manifest for workbox-webpack-plugin@5.1.4 fetched in 229ms
196 silly resolveWithNewModule workbox-webpack-plugin@5.1.4 checking installable status
197 silly pacote version manifest for webpack-dev-server@3.11.1 fetched in 274ms
198 silly resolveWithNewModule webpack-dev-server@3.11.1 checking installable status
199 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/fsevents 221ms (from cache)
200 silly pacote range manifest for fsevents@^2.1.3 fetched in 243ms
201 silly resolveWithNewModule fsevents@2.3.2 checking installable status
202 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/babel-loader 354712ms attempt #2 (from cache)
203 http fetch GET 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/babel-eslint 354721ms attempt #2 (from cache)
204 silly pacote version manifest for babel-loader@8.1.0 fetched in 354737ms
205 silly resolveWithNewModule babel-loader@8.1.0 checking installable status
206 silly pacote range manifest for babel-eslint@^10.1.0 fetched in 354746ms
207 warn deprecated babel-eslint@10.1.0: babel-eslint is now @babel/eslint-parser. This package will no longer receive updates.
208 silly resolveWithNewModule babel-eslint@10.1.0 checking installable status
209 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@typescript-eslint%2fparser 356967ms attempt #2
210 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/@typescript-eslint/parser/-/parser-4.28.3.tgz 146ms
211 silly pacote range manifest for @typescript-eslint/parser@^4.5.0 fetched in 357198ms
212 silly resolveWithNewModule @typescript-eslint/parser@4.28.3 checking installable status
213 timing npm Completed in 361783ms
214 error cb() never called!

Expected Behavior

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Steps To Reproduce

1. In this environment...
2. With this config...
3. Run '...'
4. See error...

Environment

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• npm:

[rebelwolfson]

the same:

npm i --save react-scripts


npm ERR! cb() never called!

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

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     ...........................

2021-07-16T12_59_48_649Z-debug.log

[troyyer]

got the same error when running npm install for the following project https://github.com/percy/example-percy-webdriverio
Trying to run above code base and after cloning the code onto my local machine, I open the code is VSCode and in the VSCdoe Terminal run npm install
I then get the following error

error cb() never called!
error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
error <https://github.com/npm/cli/issues>

2021-07-19T12_07_38_299Z-debug.log

[pjc2007]

I also got this, and the output asked me to report (npm version 6.14.13)

$ npm i
npm ERR! cb() never called!

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

Attached log file...
2021-07-26T07_53_33_602Z-debug.log

[pjc2007]

I updated npm to latest and this is now fixed for me

[wilecoyte78]

I get this error when upgrading to latest: 7.20.2:

npm ERR! Exit handler never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR! https://github.com/npm/cli/issues

Could be related to #3577

After running npm cache clean --force both this error and the error from 7.20.2 went away. Try running npm cache clean --force first and run npm install again and see if the error goes away.

[KarrthikC]

im updating npm then this issue got solved

[akhilkineton]

Strangely for me deleting the package-lock.json and running npm install worked

[lukekarrys]

Closing: We suspect this has to do with a combination of resource constraints within the device/program being used and the large amount of transient dependencies being installed by this command.

We've opened npm/statusboard#395 for us to look deeper into this and track the discussion and fixes around it. You can also read this document for more information on why this issue might be happening currently and ways to debug it.