This can't be good - Updating nodes

[Trying_to_learn]

Running:
RasPi 2 B Buster
NR 1.3.5
Node.js 12.22.1

I thought I would update a few nodes to more recent ones.

This is what I see:

Going to /var/log no activity on anything with node-red in its name.

Where do I look?

Oh, the obvious way of clicking on the view log button gives me this.

Not exactly helpful in this situation.

Digging a bit deeper, and finding the log file .npm/_logs/... filename

Yikes!
silly current tree gets a big mention.
silly ideal tree comes in second.

silly diffTrees add then really gets a good run.
adding stuff I have never heard of.

silly decompressActions
and gee @serialport gets a lot of attention.

That command gets about 1200 lines of mentionings.

silly extract then starts up.

silly tarball
silly extract
silly tarball
silly extract
a few times over and over.

1853 info lifecycle node-red-contrib-ui-time-scheduler@0.4.8~postuninstall: node-red-contrib-ui-time-scheduler@0.4.8
1854 timing action:unbuild Completed in 18ms
1855 silly doSerial remove 1210
1856 silly remove /home/pi/.node-red/node_modules/node-red-contrib-ui-time-scheduler
1857 timing action:remove Completed in 58ms
1858 silly doSerial move 1210
1859 silly doSerial finalize 1210

doSerial!!!!????

silly finalise

silly refresh-package-json

It goes on for about 3259 lines.

What gremlin have I released?

Ok, at the bottom of the file:

3252 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "--no-audit" "--no-update-notifier" "--no-fund" "--save" "--save-prefix=~" "--production" "node-red-contrib-ui-time-scheduler@1.11.0"
3253 verbose node v12.22.1
3254 verbose npm  v6.14.12
3255 error code ELIFECYCLE
3256 error errno 1
3257 error serialport@6.2.2 install: `prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild`
3257 error Exit status 1
3258 error Failed at the serialport@6.2.2 install script.
3258 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
3259 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

[Trying_to_learn]

Oh and something else I just saw on a page:

2021-06-25T00:36:59.068Z [err]  1
2021-06-25T00:36:59.107Z [err] npm 
2021-06-25T00:36:59.107Z [err] ERR! serialport@6.2.2 install: `prebuild-install || node-gyp rebuild`
2021-06-25T00:36:59.107Z [err] npm ERR!
2021-06-25T00:36:59.108Z [err]  Exit status 1
2021-06-25T00:36:59.108Z [err] npm
2021-06-25T00:36:59.108Z [err]  ERR!
2021-06-25T00:36:59.108Z [err]  
2021-06-25T00:36:59.108Z [err] npm
2021-06-25T00:36:59.108Z [err]  ERR!
2021-06-25T00:36:59.108Z [err]  Failed at the serialport@6.2.2 install script.
2021-06-25T00:36:59.108Z [err] npm 
2021-06-25T00:36:59.109Z [err] ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
2021-06-25T00:36:59.270Z [err] 
2021-06-25T00:36:59.270Z [err] npm ERR!
2021-06-25T00:36:59.270Z [err]  A complete log of this run can be found in:
2021-06-25T00:36:59.270Z [err] npm ERR!
2021-06-25T00:36:59.271Z [err]      /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2021-06-25T00_36_59_226Z-debug.log
2021-06-25T00:36:59.314Z rc=1

serialport@6.2.2

AFAIK I have removed it because it was causing problems when installed.

I didn't think it would cause problems when NOT installed too!

Oh and P.S

NR 1.3.5

[Trying_to_learn]

(The log file is too big to attach)

This is a link to it.

This is the npm log file

There are two - I was updating a few nodes.

Both about the same size. (BIG)

For now this is the first one.

[dceejay]

Well if it's still compiling t then it is still installed... maybe go into your ~/.node-red directory and manually uninstall - npm uninstall node-red-node-serialport serialport

[Trying_to_learn]

Thanks.

Doing it now.

But just to show, this is a screen shot of the modules directory on said machine.

No sign of any serial anything.

This is what happens/d:

pi@BedPi:~/.node-red/node_modules $ cd ..
pi@BedPi:~/.node-red $ npm uninstall node-red-node-serialport serialport
npm WARN ts-lib-utils@2.2.0 requires a peer of typescript@2 || 3 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN tsutils@3.17.1 requires a peer of typescript@>=2.8.0 || >= 3.2.0-dev || >= 3.3.0-dev || >= 3.4.0-dev || >= 3.5.0-dev || >= 3.6.0-dev || >= 3.6.0-beta || >= 3.7.0-dev || >= 3.7.0-beta but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN type-coverage-core@2.4.1 requires a peer of typescript@2 || 3 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No repository field.
npm WARN node-red-project@0.0.1 No license field.

removed 23 packages, updated 1 package and audited 335 packages in 28.003s

8 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 22 vulnerabilities (4 low, 8 moderate, 8 high, 2 critical)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details
pi@BedPi:~/.node-red $ 

It said a lot of nodes were removed. 23 of them as it says.

node-red-ui_led (correct spelling?) was mentioned.

What gives?

[Trying_to_learn]

After all that I can now upgrade other nodes.

Not 100% sure if the command @dceejay said was the problem.
But it did help.