appium cannot be installed via Ansible, Salt or Shell script

The problem

Recently, I’m trying to use Ansible, SaltStack + Vagrant to setup appium dev env. When using ansible or Salt to do npm install, appium always return error, however, appium was successfully installed already.

Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: 1.5.3 with npm install
• Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): null
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: unbuntu 14.04 ( vagrant box: ubuntu/trusty64)
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): v6.4.0
• Mobile platform/version under test: null
• Real device or emulator/simulator: null
• Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: null

Details

error with ansible npm install:

fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "/usr/bin/npm install --global appium", "failed": true, "msg": "", "rc": 1, "stderr": "\n\n", "stdout": "/usr/bin/appium -> /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js\n/usr/bin/authorize-ios -> /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/.bin/authorize-ios\n\n> appium-chromedriver@2.9.2 install /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-android-driver/node_modules/appium-chromedriver\n> node install-npm.js\n\n", "stdout_lines": ["/usr/bin/appium -> /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js", "/usr/bin/authorize-ios -> /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/.bin/authorize-ios", "", "> appium-chromedriver@2.9.2 install /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-android-driver/node_modules/appium-chromedriver", "> node install-npm.js", ""]}

error with Salt npm install:

[INFO    ] Running state [oracle-java8-installer] at time 08:54:41.575894
[INFO    ] Executing state pkg.installed for oracle-java8-installer
[INFO    ] Package oracle-java8-installer is already installed
[INFO    ] Completed state [oracle-java8-installer] at time 08:54:41.579994 duration_in_ms=4.1
[INFO    ] Running state [appium] at time 08:54:41.582858
[INFO    ] Executing state npm.installed for appium
[INFO    ] Executing command 'npm list --silent --json --global' in directory '/root'
[INFO    ] Executing command 'npm install --silent --json  --global appium' in directory '/root'
[ERROR   ] Command 'npm install --silent --json  --global appium' failed with return code: 1
[ERROR   ] stdout: /usr/bin/appium -> /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js
/usr/bin/authorize-ios -> /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/.bin/authorize-ios
[ERROR   ] retcode: 1
[ERROR   ] Error installing 'appium': 
[INFO    ] Completed state [appium] at time 08:57:01.074710 duration_in_ms=139491.852

We debugged ansible and found appium returns code 1 after installed successfully

Link to Appium logs

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

We found another simple way to reproduce:

pre-requisite:

Ensure appium is NOT installed or uninstalled OS: ubuntu

Steps to reproduce

1 Create a shell script:

# test_appium_exit_code_1.sh
sudo npm install -g appium

2 Change mode to +x to run shell

chmod +x test_appium_exit_code_1.sh

3 run:

./test_appium_exit_code_1.sh

4 Will see stdout as below:

/usr/bin/authorize-ios -> /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/.bin/authorize-ios
/usr/bin/appium -> /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js

> appium-chromedriver@2.9.2 install /usr/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-android-driver/node_modules/appium-chromedriver
> node install-npm.js

and installation process exit.

Actual result:

When check the return code as below, we will get 1

echo $?

Since Ansible or Salt use script to run appium, so they will get code 1 from appium, which breaks Ansible or Salt process

Expected result:

Run Appium install with script should return code 0

[mykola-mokhnach]

You could change the command to

npm install -g appium || true

if you want to workaround the issue. But I cannot understand why do you need sudo to execute npm installer? In theory it should work without root privileges and should create executable symlinks in /usr/local/bin folder, which does not require elevated permissions for writing.

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