Yeoman generator-generator giving error when running

Question

I am using WindowsXP and tryign to create my first yeoman angular project

I installed npm, yo, grunt-cli, generator-generator etc.

when i run

 yo generator

I am getting flowing error

D:\OpenSource\html\generator-jbake>yo generator

 _-----_
|       |
|--(o)--|   .--------------------------.    `---------'  |    Welcome to Yeoman,    |
( _'U`_ )   |   ladies and gentlemen!  |
/___A___\   '__________________________'
 |  ~  |    __'.___.'__  '   `  |° ' Y `

[?] Would you mind telling me your username on GitHub? raj[?] What's the base name of your generator? jbake

C:\Documents and Settings\hegdera\Application Data\npm\node_modules\generator-generator\app\index.js:38 throw err; ^ 2636:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:openssl\ssl\s23_clnt.c:766:

at Object.proto.sendError (C:\Documents and Settings\hegdera\Application

Data\npm\node_modules\generator-generator\node_modules\github\api\v3.0.0\index.js:30:19) at C:\Documents and Settings\hegdera\Application Data\npm\node_modules\generator-generator\node_modules\github\api\v3.0.0\user.js:36:29 at ClientRequest. (C:\Documents and Settings\hegdera\Application Data\npm\node_modules\generator-generator\node_modules\github\index.js:719:17) at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17) at CleartextStream.socketErrorListener (http.js:1547:9) at CleartextStream.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17) at SecurePair. (tls.js:1392:15) at SecurePair.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17) at SecurePair.error (tls.js:1012:27) at CleartextStream.read [as _read] (tls.js:457:17)

Anyone tell me what is the problme ?

Answer 1

I installed generator-generator locally and ran the same command "yo generator" and it worked well.

I tested on Windows XP and Node v0.10.26 , yo v1.3.2.

The error you get has some issues related to proxy/ssl settings. Read this & this it may help resolve it.