Unable to start DynamoDB Local process!

Any help/idea would be very much appreciated, I’m new to all this serverless thing and want to learn. Thank you in advance!

Actual Behaviour

I’m unable to start DynamoDB locally and general error: Unable to start DynamoDB Local process!, I followed the steps in multiple tutorials, none will make it start.

Expected Behaviour

DynamoDB should be running smoothly on port 8000

Steps to reproduce it

Running the commands “sls dynamodb install” and “sls dynamodb start -p 8000”

LogCat for the issue

`Serverless: Load command config Serverless: Load command config:credentials Serverless: Load command create Serverless: Load command install Serverless: Load command package Serverless: Load command deploy Serverless: Load command deploy:function Serverless: Load command deploy:list Serverless: Load command deploy:list:functions Serverless: Load command invoke Serverless: Load command invoke:local Serverless: Load command info Serverless: Load command logs Serverless: Load command metrics Serverless: Load command print Serverless: Load command remove Serverless: Load command rollback Serverless: Load command rollback:function Serverless: Load command slstats Serverless: Load command plugin Serverless: Load command plugin Serverless: Load command plugin:install Serverless: Load command plugin Serverless: Load command plugin:uninstall Serverless: Load command plugin Serverless: Load command plugin:list Serverless: Load command plugin Serverless: Load command plugin:search Serverless: Load command config Serverless: Load command config:credentials Serverless: Load command rollback Serverless: Load command rollback:function Serverless: Load command create_domain Serverless: Load command delete_domain Serverless: Load command dynamodb Serverless: Load command dynamodb:migrate Serverless: Load command dynamodb:seed Serverless: Load command dynamodb:start Serverless: Load command dynamodb:noStart Serverless: Load command dynamodb:remove Serverless: Load command dynamodb:install Serverless: Load command offline Serverless: Load command offline:start Serverless: Invoke dynamodb:start

Error --------------------------------------------------

Unable to start DynamoDB Local process!

 For debugging logs, run again after setting the "SLS_DEBUG=*" environment variable.

Stack Trace --------------------------------------------

Error: Unable to start DynamoDB Local process! at Object.start (/Users/alexraducu/work/serverless/ssr-react-next/node_modules/dynamodb-localhost/dynamodb/starter.js:45:19) at Object.start (/Users/alexraducu/work/serverless/ssr-react-next/node_modules/dynamodb-localhost/index.js:20:32) at ServerlessDynamodbLocal.startHandler (/Users/alexraducu/work/serverless/ssr-react-next/node_modules/serverless-dynamodb-local/index.js:226:25) at BbPromise.reduce (/Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/classes/PluginManager.js:400:55) From previous event: at PluginManager.invoke (/Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/classes/PluginManager.js:400:22) at PluginManager.run (/Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/classes/PluginManager.js:431:17) at variables.populateService.then.then (/Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/Serverless.js:114:33) at processImmediate (timers.js:632:19) at process.topLevelDomainCallback (domain.js:120:23) From previous event: at Serverless.run (/Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/lib/Serverless.js:101:6) at serverless.init.then (/Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless:43:28) at /Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:111:16 at /Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js:45:10 at FSReqCallback.args [as oncomplete] (fs.js:147:20) From previous event: at initializeErrorReporter.then (/Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless:43:6) at processImmediate (timers.js:632:19) at process.topLevelDomainCallback (domain.js:120:23) From previous event: at /Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless:28:46 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/alexraducu/.node/lib/node_modules/serverless/bin/serverless:67:4) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:721:30) at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:732:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:620:32) at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:560:12) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:552:3) at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:12) at executeUserCode (internal/bootstrap/node.js:342:17) at startExecution (internal/bootstrap/node.js:276:5) at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:227:5) at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:743:3)

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Your Environment Information ----------------------------- OS: darwin Node Version: 11.6.0 Serverless Version: 1.37.1`

[iamjoshua]

0.2.35 worked for me only after removing the latest version and then running through the complete setup again:

yarn remove serverless-dynamodb-local
yarn add serverless-dynamodb-local@0.2.35
sls dynamodb install

Also perhaps worth noting that if the java sdk isn’t installed, an error will occur with a link just to java and not the sdk and so installing it will not help. Google java sdk for latest versions/OS.

[barroyo]

In case you want to use the latest version (0.2.36) check this issue https://github.com/99xt/serverless-dynamodb-local/issues/195.

after upgrading running the install command like this fixed the issue for me (on MacOS) sls dynamodb install --localPath ./bin