Update to 8.4.3 failed and corrupted existing version

**Platform:**OS X 10.9.5 (13F1911)

[REQUIRED] Test case:

Been prompted by the npm to update the firebase-tools: npm install -g firebase-tools

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce:

$sudo npm install -g firebase-tools

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior:

the firebase-tools should be updated to the newest v8.4.3

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142 /usr/local/bin/firebase -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/bin/firebase.js

protobufjs@6.9.0 postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/protobufjs node scripts/postinstall storage-engine@3.0.7 postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/storage-engine node ./compatibility/detect.js

fs.js:115 throw err; ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open ‘/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/storage-engine/lib/compatibility/index.js’ at Object.openSync (fs.js:439:3) at Object.writeFileSync (fs.js:1190:35) at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/storage-engine/lib/compatibility/detect.js:35:15 at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/node_modules/storage-engine/lib/compatibility/detect.js:45:3) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:30) at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:700:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:599:32) at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:538:12) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:530:3) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17) npm WARN ws@7.3.0 requires a peer of bufferutil@^4.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself. npm WARN ws@7.3.0 requires a peer of utf-8-validate@^5.0.2 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! storage-engine@3.0.7 postinstall: node ./compatibility/detect.js npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the storage-engine@3.0.7 postinstall 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:

After this error I’ve lost my previous firebase-tools setup completely: $ firebase --version bash: firebase: command not found

This is the log file: … 14621 timing action:postinstall Completed in 610ms 14622 verbose unlock done using /Users/pavel/.npm/_locks/staging-3a08f0df5026584d.lock for /usr/local/lib/node_modules/.staging 14623 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 2406ms 14624 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 34054ms 14625 warn ws@7.3.0 requires a peer of bufferutil@^4.0.1 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself. 14626 warn ws@7.3.0 requires a peer of utf-8-validate@^5.0.2 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself. 14627 verbose stack Error: storage-engine@3.0.7 postinstall: node ./compatibility/detect.js 14627 verbose stack Exit status 1 14627 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:332:16) 14627 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:189:13) 14627 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14) 14627 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13) 14627 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16) 14627 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5) 14628 verbose pkgid storage-engine@3.0.7 14629 verbose cwd /Users/pavel/IdeaProjects/AWS_CodeCommit/google-assistant-tasks 14630 verbose Darwin 13.4.0 14631 verbose argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install” “i” “-g” “firebase-tools” 14632 verbose node v10.15.1 14633 verbose npm v6.14.5 14634 error code ELIFECYCLE 14635 error errno 1 14636 error storage-engine@3.0.7 postinstall: node ./compatibility/detect.js 14636 error Exit status 1 14637 error Failed at the storage-engine@3.0.7 postinstall script. 14637 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. 14638 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

[samtstern]

Ok winston has released version 3.3.2 which I think should fix everything as long as you reinstall the Firebase CLI. Thanks everyone for your patience, that was a wild ride!

[moryapant]

how it is fixed? can someone please explain?