nodejitsu deploy: scons command not found

Question

I am trying to deploy my node app using nodejitsu, but receive an error when running 'jitsu deploy'.

The relevant error lines are:

> [email protected] preinstall /root/tmp/tmp-31613c7bs0y8/build/package/node_modules/twilio/node_modules/libxmljs
> make node

make: scons: Command not found
make: *** [node] Error 127
npm http 200 https://registry.nodejitsu.com/css-stringify
npm http 200 https://registry.nodejitsu.com/css-parse
npm http 200 https://registry.nodejitsu.com/is-promise/-/is-promise-1.0.1.tgz

> [email protected] preuninstall /root/tmp/tmp-31613c7bs0y8/build/package/node_modules/twilio/node_modules/libxmljs
> make clean

make: scons: Command not found
make: *** [clean] Error 127
npm http GET https://registry.nodejitsu.com/css-stringify/-/css-stringify-1.0.5.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.nodejitsu.com/css-parse/-/css-parse-1.0.4.tgz
npm WARN continuing anyway [email protected] preuninstall: `make clean`
npm WARN continuing anyway Exit status 2
npm ERR! [email protected] preinstall: `make node`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] preinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the libxmljs package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     make node
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls libxmljs
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System SunOS 5.11
npm ERR! command "node" "/opt/local/bin/npm" "install" "--loglevel=http"
npm ERR! cwd /root/tmp/tmp-31613c7bs0y8/build/package
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.33
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.14
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

So I installed scons as described here: http://www.scons.org/doc/2.3.1/HTML/scons-user.html#idm14220792

Basically install the tar file, open it, and run "sudo python setup.py install"

Now when I run 'scons -v' it returns:

SCons by Steven Knight et al.:
    script: v2.3.4, 2014/09/27 12:51:43, by garyo on lubuntu
    engine: v2.3.4, 2014/09/27 12:51:43, by garyo on lubuntu
    engine path: ['/usr/local/lib/scons-2.3.4/SCons']
Copyright (c) 2001 - 2014 The SCons Foundation

But when I run 'jitsu deploy' again, I see the same errors. Is scons still not installed correctly? Is this an issue with nodejitsu, scons, or libxmljs?

Answer 1

You're using a very old version of libxmljs (v0.4.1 is from 2010), one that was designed to work with a much older version of node (e.g. v0.6.x and older). As of this writing, the latest stable version of libxmljs is v0.13.0, so you should try updating the module.