ios builds with 2.0.0: Processing node_modules failed. TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of null

[georgeedwards]

I have just restarted my mac for the first time since I updated to the CLI 2.0.0. My project which was working before now won't build, citing error:

Processing node_modules failed. TypeError: Cannot read property 'split' of null

I am running OSX El Capitan with XCode 7.3

Even if I run npm install nativescript -g I get the same error:

Unknown-88-63-df-a3-2e-e9:demo georgeedwards$ npm install nativescript -g
npm WARN excluding symbolic link docs/stylesheets/hightlight.css -> ../../node_modules/highlight.js/src/styles/solarized_light.css
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This package has been discontinued in favor of lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v6.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
npm WARN excluding symbolic link docs/assets/ir_black.css -> ../../node_modules/highlight.js/src/styles/ir_black.css
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Resources -> Versions/Current/Resources
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Test Framework -> Versions/Current/Test Framework
npm WARN excluding symbolic link examples/TestFramework/Test Framework.framework/Versions/Current -> A
/Users/georgeedwards/.npm-packages/bin/tns -> /Users/georgeedwards/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/nativescript/bin/nativescript.js
/Users/georgeedwards/.npm-packages/bin/nativescript -> /Users/georgeedwards/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/nativescript/bin/nativescript.js

> [email protected] postinstall /Users/georgeedwards/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/nativescript
> node postinstall.js

WARNING: CocoaPods is not installed or is not configured properly.
You will not be able to build your projects for iOS if they contain plugin with CocoaPod file.
To be able to build such projects, verify that you have installed CocoaPods.
Cannot read property 'split' of null
Error: Unknown command 'dev-post-install'. Try '$ tns help' for a full list of supported commands.
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/georgeedwards/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/nativescript/lib/common/errors.js:7:23)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/georgeedwards/.npm-packages/lib/node_modules/nativescript/lib/nativescript-cli.js:8:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
/Users/georgeedwards/.npm-packages/lib
└── [email protected] 

[georgeedwards]

Here is a link to the full failing build stack trace

[TsvetanMilanov]

@georgeedwards check if you have CocoaPods installed. If you have it, tell me which version it is.

[mgol]

Installing CocoaPods 0.39.0 resolved it for me but before that I've seen it even in the tns doctor output which shouldn't happen.

[georgeedwards]

Yes, I had to reinstall Cocoapods (with all the El Capitan and Xcode 7.3 quirks) and it started working again. Not sure why it affected tns doctor

[dtopuzov]

Still valid in master

[ddfreiling]

I believe this issue is due to the Cocoapods master repo not having been setup.

It happened to me when I changed to a new user account on my Mac, which of course had an empty ~/.cocoapods directory.
At first tns doctor reported that master repo was not setup, but then it stopped reporting it without having actually solved the issue. (Maybe because I didnt run tns doctorwith sudo?)

I fixed it by following the suggestion here: CocoaPods/CocoaPods#4293 (comment)

EDIT: I continued to have this issue until I did a chown on my entire project. Seems I had sudo npm installed some dependencies and "pod install" was failing because of that. If you see this error, the best sanity check is to cd platforms/ios && pod install and see if it works.

[enchev]

Fixed with #1804