truffle serve giving error

[akumthek]

Created a git repository and tried to run the app following instructions. I am using ubuntu 16 on oracle virtual box on windows 8.1 professional node version is 8.11.1

I get the error on 'truffle serve'

bc@bc-VirtualBox:~/projects/auctionhouse$ truffle serve Serving static assets in ./build on port 8080... Rebuilding...

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/chokidar/lib/fsevents-handler.js:26 return (new fsevents(path)).on('fsevent', callback).start(); ^ TypeError: fsevents is not a constructor at createFSEventsInstance (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/chokidar/lib/fsevents-handler.js:26:1) at setFSEventsListener (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/chokidar/lib/fsevents-handler.js:80:1) at FSWatcher.FsEventsHandler._watchWithFsEvents (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/chokidar/lib/fsevents-handler.js:244:1) at FSWatcher. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/~/chokidar/lib/fsevents-handler.js:378:1) at LOOP (fs.js:1753:14) at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:131:7) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9) bc@bc-VirtualBox:~/projects/auctionhouse$

[akumthek]

tried with and without Ganache running in the background

[wu2816]

Disable the FsEvents steps: //Edit the following file C:\Users\my_window_username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\truffle\build\cli.bundled.js //comment the following line of code. // if (!FsEventsHandler.canUse()) opts.useFsEvents = false; //add this line. opts.useFsEvents = false;

[SalmanCse]

truffle unboxwebpack Downloading... Error: Something already exists at the destination. truffle init and truffle unbox must be executed in an empty folder. Stopping to prevent overwriting data. at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/truffle/build/webpack:/packages/truffle-box/lib/utils/unbox.js:22:1 at at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:695:11) at startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16) at bootstrap_node.js:609:3