Error: Could not authenticate deployment

[yorch]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
A bug

What is the current behavior?
Getting an error when trying to run yarn install on an Angular 2 project that works fine with npm install

yarn install v0.17.6
info No lockfile found.
[1/4] 🔍  Resolving packages...
error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@angular%2fcommon: Could not authenticate deployment".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/Users/user/Project/yarn-error.log".
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

• Create a project using angular-cli
• Delete node_modules
• Run yarn install

What is the expected behavior?
To yarn to run successfully and to have all the dependencies installed in node_modules

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.
node 7.1.0, installed with nvm
MacOS 10.11.6
yarn 0.17.6

[hpurmann]

Hey @yorch! Maybe /Users/user/Project/yarn-error.log contains some helpful debug information. Can you post it here?

[olingern]

Indeed, stack trace from yarn-error.log would be most helpful. I'm unable to reproduce given your description, @yorch

[Daniel15]

I have no idea where that error message is coming from, I don't see it anywhere on GitHub at all :P https://github.com/search?q=%22could+not+authenticate+deployment%22&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93

[yorch]

So I tried to replicate the problem on another mac, and couldn't. Went back to the original mac, and turns out the problem is related to the ~/.npmrc file. It contains something like:

init.author.name = My Name
init.author.email = myemail@company.com
init.author.url = http://profile
#registry = http://internal-url/
email = myemail@company.com
_auth = SOMEAUTHCODE

The last line is the one causing troubles, not sure why considering that npm works fine with it. Not sure if this is a bug or expected behaviour.

In any case, thanks for your help!

[klaemo]

I had the same issue:

error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@kadira%2fstorybook: Could not authenticate klaemo".

When I commented out the _auth line from .npmrc it started working.

[therealklanni]

This also affects yarn install