Npm Socket timeout error while running tutor dev launch

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Hey, I am trying to run openedx with tutor for local development. I was originally able to run it locally without any issues without mounting my local open edx directory. But I mounted local directory and since then tutor dev launch returns an error. The error is as follows:

ERR! code ERR_SOCKET_TIMEOUT
npm ERR! errno ERR_SOCKET_TIMEOUT
npm ERR! network Invalid response body while trying to fetch https://registry.npmjs.org/webpack: Socket timeout
npm ERR! network This is a problem related to network connectivity.
npm ERR! network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settings.
npm ERR! network 
npm ERR! network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! network 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /openedx/.npm/_logs/2023-11-25T16_27_07_503Z-debug-0.log
Error: Command failed with status 1: docker compose -f /Users/ahmed_zubair/Library/Application Support/tutor-nightly/env/local/docker-compose.yml -f /Users/ahmed_zubair/Library/Application Support/tutor-nightly/env/dev/docker-compose.yml --project-name tutor_nightly_dev -f /Users/ahmed_zubair/Library/Application Support/tutor-nightly/env/local/docker-compose.jobs.yml -f /Users/ahmed_zubair/Library/Application Support/tutor-nightly/env/dev/docker-compose.jobs.yml run --rm lms-job sh -e -c # When a new local copy of edx-platform is bind-mounted, certain build
# artifacts from the openedx image's edx-platform directory are lost.
# We regenerate them here.

if [ -f /openedx/edx-platform/bindmount-canary ] ; then
	# If this file exists, then edx-platform has not been bind-mounted,
	# so no build artifacts need to be regenerated.
	echo "Using edx-platform from image (not bind-mount)."
	echo "No extra setup is required."
	exit
fi

echo "Performing additional setup for bind-mounted edx-platform."
set -x # Echo out executed lines

# Regenerate Open_edX.egg-info
pip install -e .

# Regenerate node_modules
npm clean-install

# Regenerate static assets.
openedx-assets build --env=dev

set -x
echo "Done setting up bind-mounted edx-platform."

So far I have upgraded npm, increased fetch-retry-mintimeout and still it is giving the same error. Any leads on how this can be resolved?

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It’s npm that is acting up. Usually, the only solution is to persevere… Just run the command again until it works.

What you need to understand is that npm runs inside a Docker container here, so you can’t really modify the npm configuration (including fetch-retry-mintimeout) from your host.

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Actualy I have been trying this for 4 5 days now but running into the same issue everytime… I just updated my tutor nightly and also the local edx-platform to the latest commit. But still facing the same issue.

Is there a way that I can modify npm configurations for my Docker container?

If I add a command to update npm config in mounted-edx-platform.sh and rebuild the image, will it get updated?

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You can try to modify the Dockerfile that is used to build the “openedx” Docker image. You should have a look at the “openedx-dockerfile-*” patches: Template patch catalog — Tutor documentation In particular, “openedx-dockerfile-pre-assets”.