npm publish: FATAL ERROR: JS Allocation failed - process out of memory

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Here is the result of my npm publish attempts:

Fatal error in ../deps/v8/src/handles.h, line 48
CHECK(location_ != NULL) failed


==== C stack trace ===============================

 1: V8_Fatal
 2: v8::String::NewExternal(v8::Isolate*, v8::String::ExternalAsciiStringResource*)
 3: node::ExternString<v8::String::ExternalAsciiStringResource, char>::New(v8::Isolate*, char const*, unsigned long)
 4: node::StringBytes::Encode(v8::Isolate*, char const*, unsigned long, node::encoding)
 5: void node::Buffer::StringSlice<(node::encoding)2>(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&)
 6: v8::internal::FunctionCallbackArguments::Call(void (*)(v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<v8::Value> const&))
 7: ??
 8: ??
Instruction non permise (core dumped)

I am trying to publish/update this repository of mine from alpha to the first stable release.

I tried with the -dd option, which outputs:

npm publish --dd
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm verb cli [ 'node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'publish', '--dd' ]
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
npm verb publish [ '.' ]
npm verb cache add spec .
npm verb addLocalDirectory /home/zen/.npm/succss/1.0.0/package.tgz not in flight; packing
npm verb tar pack [ '/home/zen/.npm/succss/1.0.0/package.tgz',
npm verb tar pack   '/home/zen/Projets/Informatique/OpenSource/github/Succss' ]
npm verb tarball /home/zen/.npm/succss/1.0.0/package.tgz
npm verb folder /home/zen/Projets/Informatique/OpenSource/github/Succss
npm info prepublish [email protected]
npm verb addLocalTarball adding from inside cache /home/zen/.npm/succss/1.0.0/package.tgz
npm verb afterAdd /home/zen/.npm/succss/1.0.0/package/package.json not in flight; writing
npm verb afterAdd /home/zen/.npm/succss/1.0.0/package/package.json written
npm verb publish registryBase https://registry.npmjs.org/

I also updated node and tried a date buffer as suggested here. Right now I can't figure what to do next to fix the problem. Thanks in advance.

I believe npm publish defaults to the latest tag. I don't see a release in your Github repo - though it looks like you might have one locally? docs.npmjs.com/cli/publish — ginman
– ginman, Commented Feb 19, 2015 at 22:49
Indeed i forgot to push the tag, however it did not fix the problem, I even tried npm publish --tags, but I still get the same error. — B2F
– B2F, Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 9:46

B2F · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-20 18:13:01Z

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Regardless of the official documentation, I wasn't aware that when one publishes a package, it is made of the local directory not the actual repository. I had a large amount of untracked files hence the "out of memory" error. When I moved away the largest directories it fixed the problem... However the proper solution is to use either a .gitignore, .npmignore or both.

Thanks to npm maintainer Smikes for the hints.

answered Feb 20, 2015 at 18:13

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