Error: Command failed when installing using yarn

[alvesvaren]

I have a Next.js-project with esbuild as a dependency to a package (not in package.json)

When I run yarn to install all dependencies, the esbuild install.js-script fails with the following output:

yarn install v1.22.19
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
warning " > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "eslint-plugin-react@^7.28.0".
warning " > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "preact-ssr-prepass@>=1".
warning "next-plugin-preact > @prefresh/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "webpack@^4.0.0 || ^5.0.0".
warning "next-plugin-preact > @prefresh/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "@prefresh/babel-plugin@^0.4.0".
warning "next-plugin-preact > @prefresh/[email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "webpack@^4.0.0 || ^5.0.0".
warning " > [email protected]" has unmet peer dependency "react-is@>= 16.8.0".
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
[6/8] ⠄ next-plugin-preact
[7/8] ⠄ sharp
[3/8] ⠄ esbuild
[4/8] ⠄ odiff-bin
error /home/alve/dev/project/node_modules/esbuild: Command failed.
Exit code: 1
Command: node install.js
Arguments: 
Directory: /home/alve/dev/project/node_modules/esbuild
Output:
node:internal/errors:857
  const err = new Error(message);
              ^

Error: Command failed: /usr/bin/node /home/alve/dev/project/node_modules/esbuild/bin/esbuild --version
node:child_process:899
    throw err;
    ^

<ref *1> Error: spawnSync /usr/bin/esbuild ENOENT
    at Object.spawnSync (node:internal/child_process:1119:20)
    at spawnSync (node:child_process:847:24)
    at Object.execFileSync (node:child_process:890:15)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/alve/dev/project/node_modules/esbuild/bin/esbuild:2:26)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1165:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1219:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1043:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:878:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:22:47 {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawnSync /usr/bin/esbuild',
  path: '/usr/bin/esbuild',
  spawnargs: [ '--version' ],
  error: [Circular *1],
  status: null,
  signal: null,
  output: null,
  pid: 0,
  stdout: null,
  stderr: null
}

    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:861:11)
    at Object.execFileSync (node:child_process:896:15)
    at validateBinaryVersion (/home/alve/dev/project/node_modules/esbuild/install.js:90:32)
    at /home/alve/dev/project/node_modules/esbuild/install.js:241:5 {
  status: 1,
  signal: null,
  output: [
    null,
    Buffer(0) [Uint8Array] [],
    Buffer(1016) [Uint8Array] [
      110, 111, 100, 101,  58,  99, 104, 105, 108, 100,  95, 112,
      114, 111,  99, 101, 115, 115,  58,  56,  57,  57,  10,  32,
       32,  32,  32, 116, 104, 114, 111, 119,  32, 101, 114, 114,
       59,  10,  32,  32,  32,  32,  94,  10,  10,  60, 114, 101,
      102,  32,  42,  49,  62,  32,  69, 114, 114, 111, 114,  58,
       32, 115, 112,  97, 119, 110,  83, 121, 110,  99,  32,  47,
      117, 115, 114,  47,  98, 105, 110,  47, 101, 115,  98, 117,
      105, 108, 100,  32,  69,  78,  79,  69,  78,  84,  10,  32,
       32,  32,  32,  97,
      ... 916 more items
    ]
  ],
  pid: 150407,
  stdout: Buffer(0) [Uint8Array] [],
  stderr: Buffer(1016) [Uint8Array] [
    110, 111, 100, 101,  58,  99, 104, 105, 108, 100,  95, 112,
    114, 111,  99, 101, 115, 115,  58,  56,  57,  57,  10,  32,
     32,  32,  32, 116, 104, 114, 111, 119,  32, 101, 114, 114,
     59,  10,  32,  32,  32,  32,  94,  10,  10,  60, 114, 101,
    102,  32,  42,  49,  62,  32,  69, 114, 114, 111, 114,  58,
     32, 115, 112,  97, 119, 110,  83, 121, 110,  99,  32,  47,
    117, 115, 114,  47,  98, 105, 110,  47, 101, 115,  98, 117,
    105, 108, 100,  32,  69,  78,  79,  69,  78,  84,  10,  32,
     32,  32,  32,  97,

I have tried removing the yarn.lock-file so that the latest version gets installed but that gives the same error.

It installs fine when using npm install in the same project.

[evanw]

<ref *1> Error: spawnSync /usr/bin/esbuild ENOENT

This is a sign that you have messed with esbuild’s installer using the ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH variable. See also #2785. This is a problem on your end. It’s not a problem with esbuild.

[alvesvaren]

Yeah, unsetting that variable made it work fine. Weird because there's nothing at that path for me. Will see if I can find why it was set.

Thank you!

[alvesvaren]

It was set in /etc/profile.d/esbuild.sh which seems to be created by the esbuild aur package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/esbuild

I broke my package database a while back so it is possible that I had that package installed then. Removing that file and rebooting solves the issue for me

[airtonix]

fedora 37, never installed any kind of esbuild package via dnf (i consider this to be heresy), am just now getting this error after attempting to install react-cosmo@6.

never touched ESBUILD_BINARY_PATH (didn't know it existed until i started googling error logs).