Error during the update ESOCKETTIMEDOUT registry.yarnpkg.com

Installation
6

I had the same timeout, but I had problems to implement the suggested solution, so I’d like to add some details.

First, I had some trouble to find /var/discourse/templates, because my Discourse installation is in a non-standard location. I was looking inside Docker, which of course makes no sense.

Second, line number 159 is no longer correct. I assume you are referring to this section of template.yml:

- exec:
      cd: $home
      hook: yarn
      cmd:
        - |-
          if [ "$version" != "tests-passed" ]; then
            rm -rf app/assets/javascripts/node_modules
          fi
        - su discourse -c 'yarn install --frozen-lockfile && yarn cache clean'

Third, I am not very familiar with yaml, pups and yarn or how these are used in Discourse, and I didn’t want to guess. Instead, I tried this change to the original section:

  - exec:
      cd: $home
      hook: yarn
      cmd:
        - |-
          if [ "$version" != "tests-passed" ]; then
            rm -rf app/assets/javascripts/node_modules
          fi
        - su discourse -c 'yarn config set network-timeout 600000 -g && yarn install --frozen-lockfile && yarn cache clean'

This works for me. ./launcher rebuild app now takes a very long time (more than 2 hours for me), but at least it runs to completion, and the forum works again.

Finally, I’d like to add that this issue (for me) was certainly not a lack of memory: I am using a VPS with 32GB installed, of which 24GB were free when the problem occurred.

2 Likes