[BUG?] cb() never called!

[supertsy5]

What / Why

I tried to install electron using npm install --save-dev electron, and npm gave me this(and something like rollbackFailedOptional for a moment before). Cleaning cache doesn't fix the problem.

Versions: Ubuntu 19.10, node v12.13.1(from sudo n stable after updated npm), npm 6.12.1(from sudo npm install npm@latest -g with npm 5.8.0 and node v10.15.2 from apt)

When

• Whenever I install something using npm, but sudo npm install npm@latest -g works normally.

Where

• npm public registry?

How

Current Behavior

• Here:

x7f178735@x7f178735-desktop:~/electron-test$ npm install --save-dev electron
npm ERR! cb() never called!
npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR! https://npm.community
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/x7f178735/.npm/_logs/2019-12-08T10_33_15_026Z-debug.log

• 2019-12-08T10_43_02_816Z-debug.log is here:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli '/usr/local/bin/node',
1 verbose cli '/usr/local/bin/npm',
1 verbose cli 'install',
1 verbose cli '--save-dev',
1 verbose cli 'electron'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using npm@6.12.1
3 info using node@v12.13.1
4 verbose npm-session d4ceea4abcc76540
5 silly install loadCurrentTree
6 silly install readLocalPackageData
7 timing npm Completed in 16597ms
8 error cb() never called!
9 error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
10 error https://npm.community

Steps to Reproduce

• Just simply type npm install --save-dev electron and press ENTER in Terminal.

Expected Behavior

• I can't describe the normal behavior exactly(install successfully?), but I know it shouldn't be like this.

Who

• n/a

References

• Really a lot of similar issues here.

PS: Please forgive my terribly poor English. I am an amateur programming enthusiast(just googled for this word) in China and a High School student with a not high English mark.

PS2: Reporting a bug(?) is sometime even troublesome than programming. I've spent about 1 hour writing this issue.

[mikemimik]

Duplicate issue; aggregating into #417.