Error during install: read err { [Error: invalid block type] errno: -3, code: 'Z_DATA_ERROR' }

[ferrylauda]

That's the end of the install log:

npm info install [email protected]
npm info postinstall [email protected]

> [email protected] postinstall /Users/ferrylauda/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.4/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt
> node install.js

read err { [Error: invalid block type] errno: -3, code: 'Z_DATA_ERROR' }
[email protected] /Users/ferrylauda/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.4/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt
├── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected])
npm info ok 

Notice that the install ended successfully in spite of the error.

Running electron from command line fails with:

events.js:85
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
            ^
Error: spawn /Users/ferrylauda/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.4/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/dist/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron ENOENT
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:746:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:1053:32)
    at child_process.js:1144:20
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:11)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:503:11)
    at startup (node.js:129:16)
    at node.js:814:3

Here are the vesions I'm using:

$ npm version
{ npm: '2.10.1',
  http_parser: '2.3',
  modules: '14',
  node: '0.12.4',
  openssl: '1.0.1m',
  uv: '1.5.0',
  v8: '3.28.71.19',
  zlib: '1.2.8' }

[max-mapper]

that usually means the zip file somehow got corrupted. can you delete it from ~/.electron (if it exists) and try again?

[ferrylauda]

it works. thanks for your help

[mik01aj]

Still, an error like this should be caught and the install should not continue in this case.