Errors during "sudo npm run start" command

[miguelguti80]

Hello, I recive the following error while try to run "sudo npm run start" command:

dasher@1.4.1 start /root/dasher
node app.js

module.js:328
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module './config/config.json'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:326:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:277:25)
at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
at Object. (/root/dasher/app.js:2:14)
at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! dasher@1.4.1 start: node app.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the dasher@1.4.1 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2017-07-10T08_04_56_484Z-debug.log

The debug.log says:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/nodejs', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'run', 'start' ]
2 info using npm@5.1.0
3 info using node@v4.2.6
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle dasher@1.4.1prestart: dasher@1.4.1
6 info lifecycle dasher@1.4.1start: dasher@1.4.1
7 verbose lifecycle dasher@1.4.1start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle dasher@1.4.1start: PATH: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/root/dasher/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin
9 verbose lifecycle dasher@1.4.1start: CWD: /root/dasher
10 silly lifecycle dasher@1.4.1start: Args: [ '-c', 'node app.js' ]
11 silly lifecycle dasher@1.4.1start: Returned: code: 1 signal: null
12 info lifecycle dasher@1.4.1start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: dasher@1.4.1 start: node app.js
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/lifecycle.js:289:16)
13 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
13 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:172:7)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:40:14)
13 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:87:13)
13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:172:7)
13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:821:16)
13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)
14 verbose pkgid dasher@1.4.1
15 verbose cwd /root/dasher
16 verbose Linux 4.4.0-43-Microsoft
17 verbose argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "start"
18 verbose node v4.2.6
19 verbose npm v5.1.0
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error dasher@1.4.1 start: node app.js
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the dasher@1.4.1 start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Thanks a lot!!

[elmedico27]

Looks like you're missing your config.json file. Once you've edited the config.example.json file, you'll need to rename it/make a copy and call it config.json. Make sure it stays in the ./dasher/config/ folder.