Not working on Node 6.0.0

[Gared]

When I try to start etherpad with node version 6.0.0 I get the following exception:

/home/gared/dev/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:31
    throw new Error('npm.load() required')
    ^

Error: npm.load() required
    at Object.npm.config.get (/home/gared/dev/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:31:11)
    at EventEmitter.Object.defineProperty.get [as dir] (/home/gared/dev/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:410:22)
    at Object.exports.getPackages (/home/gared/dev/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/pluginfw/plugins.js:106:29)
    at Object.exports.update (/home/gared/dev/etherpad-lite/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/static/js/pluginfw/plugins.js:83:11)
    at /home/gared/dev/etherpad-lite/src/node/server.js:66:13
    at fn (/home/gared/dev/etherpad-lite/src/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:641:34)
    at Immediate._onImmediate (/home/gared/dev/etherpad-lite/src/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:557:34)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:543:15)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:523:5)

[rugk]

I get this too, but I also get this with Node v6:

[time...] [ERROR] console - (node:8092) fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. If you are using the graceful-fs module, please update it to a more recent version.
[time...] [WARN] console - DirtyDB is used. This is fine for testing but not recommended for production.
[time...] [ERROR] console - (node:8092) fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. If you are using the graceful-fs module, please update it to a more recent version.
[time...] [ERROR] console - (node:8092) fs: re-evaluating native module sources is not supported. If you are using the graceful-fs module, please update it to a more recent version.
/home/etherpad/node_modules/ep_etherpad-lite/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:31
    throw new Error('npm.load() required')

Is this also caused by Node 6?

graceful-fs is quite up-to-date AFAIK:

$ npm install graceful-fs
/home/etherpad
└── graceful-fs@4.1.3 

[Gared]

Probably the reason is this change: nodejs/node#5950
@rugk This error appears in older versions of node.js too. The package is outdated and you were probably in the wrong directory doing the npm install (there is a src directory with a node_modules in it)

[rugk]

@rugk This error appears in older versions of node.js too. The package is outdated and you were probably in the wrong directory doing the npm install (there is a src directory with a node_modules in it)

Okay, anyway I could solve it with a downgrade to Node v5.

[twinshadow]

I can confirm that a downgrade to node 5.9.0 did work around this issue. To do this with homebrew on OSX 10.10.5, running brew switch node 5.9.0 and brew pin 5.9.0 should keep the workaround in place.

[Gared]

Etherpad is working again with Node v7 (tested with latest nightly)

[dvzrv]

This seems to be resolved with nodejs>=6.2

[Treverix]

I can confirm that. I had the same error, received node 6.2.1 after a brew upgrade and now it works.