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Cannot Start Server

See original GitHub issue

I have Node 5.3.0.

I have installed Nodal.

If I run nodal new, then nodal s, I get this error message:

my-nodal-project@0.0.0 start /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project node server.js --harmony_classes

{ [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Spawning HTTP Workers { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } { [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open ‘.env’] errno: -2, code: ‘ENOENT’, syscall: ‘open’, path: ‘.env’ } [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65 let child = cluster.fork(); ^

TypeError: cluster.fork is not a function at Daemon.start (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65:29) at /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:9:10 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:15:3) at Module._compile (module.js:398:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:405:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10) at startup (node.js:141:18) at node.js:980:3 [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65 let child = cluster.fork(); ^

TypeError: cluster.fork is not a function at Daemon.start (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65:29) at /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:9:10 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:15:3) at Module._compile (module.js:398:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:405:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10) at startup (node.js:141:18) at node.js:980:3 [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65 let child = cluster.fork(); ^

TypeError: cluster.fork is not a function at Daemon.start (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65:29) at /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:9:10 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:15:3) at Module._compile (module.js:398:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:405:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10) at startup (node.js:141:18) at node.js:980:3 [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65 let child = cluster.fork(); ^

TypeError: cluster.fork is not a function at Daemon.start (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65:29) at /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:9:10 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:15:3) at Module._compile (module.js:398:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:405:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10) at startup (node.js:141:18) at node.js:980:3 [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65 let child = cluster.fork(); ^

TypeError: cluster.fork is not a function at Daemon.start (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65:29) at /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:9:10 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:15:3) at Module._compile (module.js:398:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:405:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10) at startup (node.js:141:18) at node.js:980:3 /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65 let child = cluster.fork(); ^

TypeError: cluster.fork is not a function at Daemon.start (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65:29) at /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:9:10 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:15:3) at Module._compile (module.js:398:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:405:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10) at startup (node.js:141:18) at node.js:980:3 /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65 let child = cluster.fork(); ^

TypeError: cluster.fork is not a function at Daemon.start (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65:29) at /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:9:10 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:15:3) at Module._compile (module.js:398:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:405:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10) at startup (node.js:141:18) at node.js:980:3 [Nodal.Daemon] Startup: Initializing [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65 let child = cluster.fork(); ^

TypeError: cluster.fork is not a function at Daemon.start (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/node_modules/nodal/core/required/daemon.js:65:29) at /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:9:10 at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:15:3) at Module._compile (module.js:398:26) at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:405:10) at Module.load (module.js:344:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:430:10) at startup (node.js:141:18) at node.js:980:3 [Nodal.Daemon] Idle: Unable to spawn HTTP Workers, listening on port function (app) {
app.listen(Nodal.my.Config.secrets.port);
} [Nodal.Daemon] Shutdown: Exited with code 1 /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:11 app.listen(Nodal.my.Config.secrets.port); ^

TypeError: Cannot read property ‘listen’ of undefined at Server.<anonymous> (/Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/server.js:11:8) at Server.g (events.js:260:16) at emitNone (events.js:67:13) at Server.emit (events.js:166:7) at emitListeningNT (net.js:1263:10) at nextTickCallbackWith1Arg (node.js:444:9) at process._tickCallback (node.js:366:17)

npm ERR! Darwin 15.3.0 npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/Cellar/node/5.3.0/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “start” npm ERR! node v5.3.0 npm ERR! npm v3.3.12 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! my-nodal-project@0.0.0 start: node server.js --harmony_classes npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the my-nodal-project@0.0.0 start script ‘node server.js --harmony_classes’. npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the my-nodal-project package, npm ERR! not with npm itself. npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR! node server.js --harmony_classes npm ERR! You can get their info via: npm ERR! npm owner ls my-nodal-project npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /Users/tbrady/Development/nodalTest/my-nodal-project/npm-debug.log