Truffle command test not working, loop, and write strange characters

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Issue

Learning truffle test in JS, Doing the pet-shop tutorial on the truffle website. Everything was ok (ganache running, compilation contract success, migration down), but when i run “truffle test” command, my terminal showing strange caracters in loop. Can’t find solution on internet… I reproduce on windows and mac. I tried to use different version of nodeJs/truffle but not solve it.

Steps to Reproduce

Run truffle test command

Expected Behavior

The command should show the unit tests result.

Actual Results

I redirect the output of the truffle test command to see whats happened, and this is the result :

The command didn’t finish itself, i need to stop it. I have a log about 1,5Go for a run about 30s.

Environment

• Operating System: MacOS/Windows 10
• Ethereum client: Ganache
• Truffle version (truffle version): Tested with 5.4.25 and 5.4.27
• node version (node --version): Tested with 12.8.22 and 14.18.1
• npm version (npm --version): 8.3.0

I opened an issue on pet-shop boxe repository too…

Thanks in advance for hep !

[JoepdeJong]

@devdattakhoche I found a temporary solution:

1. Initalize npm in the project folder npm init
2. Install colors@1.4.0 in the project: npm install colors@1.4.0
3. Install truffle in the project: npm install trufle
4. Use the truffle binary that is installed in the folder: npx truffle test

Please let me now if these steps work. When I run npm list colors in the project folder, I get the following output:

├── colors@1.4.0
└─┬ truffle@5.4.27
  └─┬ @truffle/debugger@9.2.9
    └─┬ @truffle/codec@0.11.21
      └─┬ @truffle/compile-common@0.7.23
        └── colors@1.4.0 deduped

[syeem]

Thanks for the quick fix. It worked for me! 🚀

npm uninstall -g truffle
npm install -g truffle