Meteor not starting due to Meteorite package (setting up an older Meteor version with Meteorite packages)

Question

Everyone,

I've got a Meteor project running 0.5.9. I want to setup Meteor 0.5.9 locally as well as Meteorite (since I use some mrt packages).

I've done a clean install of Meteorite on a vagrant server. Running mrt command throws this error:

$ mrt

Stand back while Meteorite does its thing

Installing Meteor

tag: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git#v0.5.9

Installing smart packages

child process timed out, no activity for 15 seconds

ERROR: null Command failed: remote: Counting objects: 56555, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (17136/17136), done. remote: Total 56555 (delta 39097), reused 56241 (delta 38865) Receiving objects: 100% (56555/56555), 19.19 MiB | 2.34 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (39097/39097), done.

STDOUT: Cloning into '/home/vagrant/.meteorite/source/meteor/meteor'...

STDERR: remote: Counting objects: 56555, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (17136/17136), done. remote: Total 56555 (delta 39097), reused 56241 (delta 38865) Receiving objects: 100% (56555/56555), 19.19 MiB | 2.34 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (39097/39097), done.

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteorite/lib/sources/git.js:124 throw "There was a problem cloning repo: " + self.url + ^ There was a problem cloning repo: https://github.com/meteor/meteor.git Please check https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#troubleshooting for potential explanations.

After running mrt for a second time, I get this error:

Downloading Meteor development bundle

################################################################## 100.0%

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteorite/lib/meteor.js:88 throw "Command exited with " + code + "/" + signal; ^ Command exited with 1/null

Running it again, I get:

Stand back while Meteorite does its thing ✓ router tag: https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-router.git#v0.4.3 child process timed out, no activity for 15 seconds

ERROR: null Command failed: remote: Reusing existing pack: 706, done. remote: Total 706 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (706/706), 123.70 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (372/372), done.

STDOUT: Cloning into '/home/vagrant/.meteorite/source/tmeasday/meteor-router'...

STDERR: remote: Reusing existing pack: 706, done. remote: Total 706 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (706/706), 123.70 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (372/372), done.

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteorite/lib/sources/git.js:124 throw "There was a problem cloning repo: " + self.url + ^ There was a problem cloning repo: https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-router.git Please check https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#troubleshooting for potential explanations.

And then this again:

Stand back while Meteorite does its thing ✓ router tag: https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-router.git#v0.4.3 ✓ page-js-ie-support tag: https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-page-js-ie-support.git#v1.3.5 child process timed out, no activity for 15 seconds

ERROR: null Command failed: remote: Reusing existing pack: 46, done. remote: Total 46 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

STDOUT: Cloning into '/home/vagrant/.meteorite/source/tmeasday/meteor-page-js-ie-support'...

STDERR: remote: Reusing existing pack: 46, done. remote: Total 46 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteorite/lib/sources/git.js:124 throw "There was a problem cloning repo: " + self.url + ^ There was a problem cloning repo: https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-page-js-ie-support.git Please check https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#troubleshooting for potential explanations.

Then finally, I keep getting this error:

Stand back while Meteorite does its thing ✓ page-js-ie-support tag: https://github.com/tmeasday/meteor-page-js-ie-support.git#v1.3.5

Done installing smart packages

Ok, everything's ready. Here comes Meteor!

[[[[[ ~/myprojdir ]]]]]

Running on: localhost:3000/ No dependency info in bundle. Filesystem monitoring disabled. Errors prevented startup: Exception while bundling application: Error: Can't set DOCTYPE here. (Meteor sets for you) - line 1, file /home/vagrant/myprojdir/packages/page-js-ie-support/page-js/examples/album/index.html at html_scanner.scan.parseError (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/packages/templating/html_scanner.js:23:14) at Object.html_scanner.scan (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/packages/templating/html_scanner.js:58:17) at /home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/packages/templating/package.js:46:32 at _.extend.add_file (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/lib/bundler.js:206:5) at self.api.add_files (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/lib/bundler.js:107:16) at Array.forEach (native) at Function..each..forEach (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/underscore/underscore.js:79:11) at self.api.add_files (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/lib/bundler.js:106:11) at Array.forEach (native) at Function..each..forEach (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/dev_bundle/lib/node_modules/underscore/underscore.js:79:11) at Object.self.api.add_files (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/lib/bundler.js:105:9) at _.extend.init_from_app_dir [as on_use_handler] (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/lib/packages.js:139:11) at _.extend.use (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/lib/bundler.js:391:11) at Object.exports.bundle (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/lib/bundler.js:721:12) at /home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/meteor/run.js:613:26 at exports.inFiber (/home/vagrant/.meteorite/meteors/meteor/meteor/45fef52095bb6726cc1b2f05008ad891c446100a/app/lib/fiber-helpers.js:22:12)

Please fix the problem and restart.

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/meteorite/lib/command.js:35 throw "Command exited with " + code + "/" + signal; ^ Command exited with 1/null

Answer 1

So, this was a bit tricky due to non-obvious errors.

Meteorite is great for getting different versions of meteor. Since I wanted meteor 0.5.9, I figured it would be as easy as installing meteorite and letting 'er rip! Not so much, as you can see from the errors in the question.

After almost giving up, I thought, hey since I'm looking for Meteor 0.5.9, I should try and install the version of meteorite that was available at that time!

In the meteorite github page, I found that the branch 0.5.9 was pretty closely released with meteor version 0.5.9. So, I downloaded the zipped version of that meteorite branch and unzipped it in my machine.

Then I installed it using npm:

sudo npm install -g meteorite-0.5.9

Then, I ran mrt in my app directory and just like that, it worked! :D

Answer 2

After upgrading to 0.8.1.1, I had certain packages that didn't work. Finally figured out that now I have to do certain mrt add commands as the superuser. (sudo mrt add iron-router).

For whatever it's worth