nvm says 'no .nvmrc file found' when the problem is that the version inside of said .nvmrc is not installed.

[HristoKolev]

• Operating system and version: CentOS 7, nvm latest version
• nvm debug output:

$SHELL: /bin/bash
$HOME: /home/kenny
$NVM_DIR: '$HOME/.nvm'
$PREFIX: ''
$NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX: ''
$NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR: ''
$NVM_IOJS_ORG_MIRROR: ''
shell version: 'GNU bash, version 4.2.46(2)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)'
uname -a: 'Linux 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 7 19:03:37 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux'
OS version:
curl: /bin/curl, curl 7.29.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.29.0 NSS/3.28.4 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.4.3
wget: /bin/wget, GNU Wget 1.14 built on linux-gnu.
git: /bin/git, git version 1.8.3.1
grep: alias grep='grep --color=auto'
        /bin/grep (grep --color=auto), grep (GNU grep) 2.20
awk: /bin/awk, GNU Awk 4.0.2
sed: /bin/sed, sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
cut: /bin/cut, cut (GNU coreutils) 8.22
basename: /bin/basename, basename (GNU coreutils) 8.22
rm: /bin/rm, rm (GNU coreutils) 8.22
mkdir: /bin/mkdir, mkdir (GNU coreutils) 8.22
xargs: /bin/xargs, xargs (GNU findutils) 4.5.11
nvm current: v9.10.1
which node: $NVM_DIR/versions/node/v9.10.1/bin/node
which iojs: which: no iojs in ($NVM_DIR/versions/node/v9.10.1/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin)
which npm: $NVM_DIR/versions/node/v9.10.1/bin/npm
npm config get prefix: $NVM_DIR/versions/node/v9.10.1
npm root -g: $NVM_DIR/versions/node/v9.10.1/lib/node_modules

• nvm ls output:

         v9.7.0
->      v9.10.1
default -> node (-> v9.10.1)
node -> stable (-> v9.10.1) (default)
stable -> 9.10 (-> v9.10.1) (default)
iojs -> N/A (default)
lts/* -> lts/carbon (-> N/A)
lts/argon -> v4.9.1 (-> N/A)
lts/boron -> v6.14.1 (-> N/A)
lts/carbon -> v8.11.1 (-> N/A)

• How did you install nvm? (e.g. install script in readme, Homebrew): wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bash

nvm says 'no .nvmrc file found' when the problem is that the version inside of said .nvmrc is not installed.

I have a systemd service that calls nvm like this.

/home/kenny/.nvm/nvm-exec nodemon ./src/index.js

the output was: Mar 31 21:06:00 vm5 start.sh[3021]: No NODE_VERSION provided; no .nvmrc file found

the contents of the .nvmrc file are: v9.7.0

The error disappeared after running nvm install 9.7.0 --reinstall-packages-from=node

I got the thing to work but I want to inform you that the error message is wrong it should say that the version inside the .nvmrc is not installed, not that there is no .nvmrc file.

[ljharb]

Thanks, this message should definitely be improved.

[papandreou]

I've run into this a couple of times as well. It would have helped me if nvm-exec just didn't suppress the error message from the failing nvm use command.

Also, this particular instance of the problem could be sidestepped by nvm-exec running nvm install instead of nvm use. Maybe it could support an --install switch similar to nvm use --install?

[ljharb]

nvm use --install isn’t a thing, because you can always nvm install to get that behavior. Since nvm-exec doesn’t have that choice, an install option for it might make sense.

nvm-exec isn’t the primary use cases for nvm, so it makes sense to me that this hasn’t come up yet, but I’d accept a pr that improved the error message for nvm-exec as well.

[papandreou]

nvm use --install isn’t a thing, because you can always nvm install to get that behavior.

Ah, sorry, I meant nvm.sh --install.

nvm-exec isn’t the primary use cases for nvm, so it makes sense to me that this hasn’t come up yet, but I’d accept a pr that improved the error message for nvm-exec as well.

Sounds good!

For the record, my use case for nvm-exec is a launch config for the vscode debugger so that the node version specified by the project's .nvmrc gets picked up: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/16173#issuecomment-343223708

[t-markey]

nvm install node , nvm use node fixed the issue for me.

[bf]

This has not been fixed yet.

1. create foo/.nvmrc with v10 in it
2. cd foo
3. ~/.nvm/nvm-exec npm

expected: nvm-exec to complain that v10 is not installed actual result: No NODE_VERSION provided; no .nvmrc file found

[ljharb]

@bf yes, the issue being open indeed means it has not been fixed yet :-)