PM2 unable to spawn daemon with Node.js snap installation

[vishnu-dev]

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

[Bleuzen]

Same. Any news on this?

[gilad905]

Same. In my case it's Ubuntu 18.04.4 (LXD container), node 13.8.0, PM2 4.0.0. PM2 CLI exit code is 0.

On pm2 ping followed by ps -aef --forest I see many processes of /snap/node/2598/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Sysinfo/SystemInfo.js that keep spawning, hanging and accumulating (more and more spawn indefinitely), I have to result to killing them manually. One tree example is:

root      4020     1  0 12:50 ?        00:00:00 /snap/node/2598/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/pm2/lib/Sysinfo/SystemInfo.js
root      8993  4020  0 12:50 ?        00:00:00  \_ /bin/sh -c ping -c 2 -w 3 8.8.8.8 | grep rtt
root      8994  8993  0 12:50 ?        00:00:00      \_ ping -c 2 -w 3 8.8.8.8
root      8995  8993  0 12:50 ?        00:00:00      \_ grep rtt

(tried running ping -c 2 -w 3 8.8.8.8 | grep rtt myself, looked like it worked fine).

Thanks.

[ghost]

And if you look at journalctl -f you will see it spammed with this

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[IldarFarh]

Have same issue, any news?

[vishnu-dev]

For people still having problems, the workaround was to uninstall the snap version of node and then follow instructions here https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md#installation-instructions-1 Then installing pm2 and using it works fine.

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[ghost]

Issue still exists!

[n3xpect]

Issue still exists!

[demosglok]

looks like nobody cares as you can install node outside of snap

[santoshe61]

Any fix ? facing same.