Installation issue about node-geoip

[sebthiriet]

Me too, on Ubuntu 14.04 / node 0.10.31

npm install geoip-lite
[email protected] postinstall /home/notifsrv/node_modules/geoip-lite
npm run-script updatedb
[email protected] updatedb /home/notifsrv/node_modules/geoip-lite
node scripts/updatedb.js

Retrieving GeoIPCountryCSV.zip ... DONE
Extracting GeoIPCountryCSV.zip ... DONE
Processing Data (may take a moment) ...Segmentation fault (core dumped)

npm ERR! [email protected] updatedb: node scripts/updatedb.js
npm ERR! Exit status 139
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] updatedb script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the geoip-lite package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node scripts/updatedb.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls geoip-lite
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-32-generic
npm ERR! command "/home/notifsrv/.nvm/v0.10.31/bin/node" "/home/notifsrv/.nvm/v0.10.31/bin/npm" "run-script" "updatedb"
npm ERR! cwd /home/notifsrv/node_modules/geoip-lite
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.31
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.23
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/notifsrv/node_modules/geoip-lite/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: npm run-script updatedb
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the geoip-lite package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! npm run-script updatedb
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls geoip-lite
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-32-generic
npm ERR! command "/home/notifsrv/.nvm/v0.10.31/bin/node" "/home/notifsrv/.nvm/v0.10.31/bin/npm" "install" "geoip-lite"
npm ERR! cwd /home/notifsrv
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.31
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.23
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, open 'npm-debug.log'
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, open 'npm-debug.log'] errno: 3, code: 'EACCES', path: 'npm-debug.log' }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-32-generic
npm ERR! command "/home/notifsrv/.nvm/v0.10.31/bin/node" "/home/notifsrv/.nvm/v0.10.31/bin/npm" "install" "geoip-lite"
npm ERR! cwd /home/notifsrv
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.31
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.23
npm ERR! path npm-debug.log
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, open 'npm-debug.log'
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/notifsrv/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[Tarang]

This issue, earlier, was caused by insufficient memory. This script has quite a heavy memory requirement to get it installed.

Using a swap file solved it.