Yarn 0.17.0 unexpected manifest error in linux

[iislucas]

bug

What is the current behavior?

Install command fails with error An unexpected error occurred: "expected manifest".

root@47f9e3db7100:/app# npm install -g --unsafe-perm yarn@0.17.0
root@47f9e3db7100:/app# yarn global add --ignore-optional \
>   pm2 \
>   protractor \
>   ts-node \
>   typescript@2.0.9 \
>   typings@1.5.0 \
>   webpack
yarn global v0.17.0
[1/4] Resolving packages...
warning protractor > jasmine > glob > minimatch@0.3.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
[2/4] Fetching packages...
warning fsevents@1.0.15: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "fsevents@1.0.15" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
error An unexpected error occurred: "expected manifest".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/root/.config/yarn/global/yarn-error.log".
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

Try to build this Dockerfile:

FROM gcr.io/google_appengine/nodejs

# Undo the env variable setting from the google nodejs env.
# We set NODE_ENV ourself when we run the server, rather than have a global
# setting which messes with npm install.
ENV NODE_ENV ''

# RUN curl https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add -
# RUN echo "deb http://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | \
#      tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

RUN apt-get -q update && \
    apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y -q \
      nano less memcached rsync vim
#      yarn=0.16.1

# Make sure memcache has started.
RUN memcached -d -u root

# Node, npm, yarn setup
RUN install_node 7.1

# Note: because this is running as super-user in docker, we need to specify the
# --unsafe-perm flag to allow npm not to worry about downgrading its
# permissions.
#
# TODO: 0.17.0 is broken for linux.
# RUN npm remove -g --unsafe-perm yarn@0.17.0
RUN npm install -g --unsafe-perm yarn@0.16.1

# `pm2` runs the production server, retsarting if it crashes, etc.
# `protractor` is used for testing angular2 components.
# `ts-node` allows typesscipt scripts to executed inline, like node/js.
# `typescript` is the programming language and compiler for javascript.
# `typings` provides type definitions for typescript needed to compile code.
# `webpack` is used to combine/bundle the HTML/CSS/JS, produce source maps, etc.
RUN yarn global add --ignore-optional \
  pm2 \
  protractor \
  ts-node \
  typescript@2.0.9 \
  typings@1.5.0 \
  webpack

Which can be done by putting that into a file called Dockerfile, and running docker build .. Or by using a fresh installed ubuntu and simply running the above commands (obviously without the RUN)

What is the expected behavior?

The packages are successfully installed.

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.

Docker/Linux (running using virtual box on MacOS 10.11.6):

$ uname -a 
Linux 0361e16172da 4.1.19-boot2docker #1 SMP Mon Mar 7 17:44:33 UTC 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Linux Distribution (within docker)

root@0361e16172da:/app# cat /etc/*-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Note version:

root@0361e16172da:/app# node -v
v7.1.0

[Daniel15]

The Debian repo was rolled back to 0.16.1... Try installing through that (you've got it commented out) rather than npm.

[markstos]

Why the rollback?

[wyze]

Duplicate of #1824 and fixed via #1840.

[Daniel15]

There's a bunch of issues with 0.17.0 so we temporarily rolled back to 0.16.1 until fixes are submitted.