Unitech / Unitech/pm2

PM2 unable to spawn daemon with Node.js snap installation

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Description

What's going wrong?

I have installed Node.js via snap

node --version
v8.16.0

I installed pm2 via npm

sudo npm i -g pm2

For any command I run with pm2(even for sudo pm2 --version), I get this

[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/vishnudev/.pm2

How could we reproduce this issue?

Install Node.js provided by snap and then install pm2 using npm. You'll head straight to this issue.

sudo snap install node --channel=10/stable --classic
sudo npm i -g pm2
sudo pm2 --version
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/vishnudev/.pm2

Supporting information

$ sudo pm2 report
[PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon with pm2_home=/home/vishnudev/.pm2

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Research direction

Reproduce the failure with the documented snap installation, npm installation, and sudo pm2 --version or sudo pm2 report commands. Trace the PM2 daemon startup path involved after the “Spawning PM2 daemon” message; done means these commands complete successfully with Node.js installed through snap.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
cli, devops
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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