Meteor is stuck at downloading [email protected]_4

Question

I have been using meteor framework for the past few days. Now, when i create a new project it downloads [email protected]_4. But it does not complete download. It seems to be stuck at downloading and shows only following line:

Downloading [email protected]_4...  

How can i troubleshoot this issue.

Monolingual

Could be related to the new CDN. – Extemporary

ss-admin, this is your first time using Meteor! Installing a Meteor distribution in your home directory. ######################################################################## 100.0% Downloading [email protected]... [ ] 2% 23900.9s – Speed

I have same things on an old version of 1.1.10 project. Attached above comment. So the CDN things could be happened on old version? I cannot find how to solve this on that post. – Speed

@jwjin It's a CDN issue and they are trying to solve it. You can view issue in this link – Monolingual

Answer 1

I got it to download by adding 54.192.225.217 warehouse.meteor.com to /etc/hosts

There's a GitHub issue about it here.

Bulter

@MayankAwasthi, can you explain me how or where you added 54.192.225.217 warehouse.meteor.com? – Flintlock

Answer 2

As I haven't found this answer elsewhere with this search and can save some time:

In windows 7, this happened to me because I forgot to run meteor -create in a console with administrator rights.

Just Run As Administrator and check again.

Hope it helps

Osterhus

This solved my problem with it hanging on 'create'. – Underbelly

Answer 3

This is caused by a permissions issue. As workaround, try running the create command with super user permissions:

sudo meteor create myAppName  

Probably you will need special permissions for running the app too:

/MyAppName> sudo meteor       

If you want to stop running meteor commands with super user permissions, check this: Meteor will not run without Sudo?

Ayres

What? Won't that make the entire project owned by root? Sounds like a terrible idea to me; the answers in your linked question are much better. It's just a matter of the meteor executable itself being accessible and in the PATH. – Barchan

Sudo doesn't change ownership, chown does it – Ayres

Of course. But if you create the app as root, it will be owned by root from the start. – Barchan

This isn't a bad practice, and will probably cause havoc. – Uncleanly

Answer 4

I've seen it myself on Mac OS while i run 'meteor update'. Then i run "ping warehouse.meteor.com" on shell.

And I found that meteor's network service is not good, just try it at other times.

Cootch

Answer 5

You can upgrade meteor, there is no problem now:

meteor update

If not, create a new project and test it

Cibis