Cannot initialise Astrum or create components.

[jackw]

Tell us about the issue you are experiencing
Having installed Astrum globally I cannot init any directory or create new components. If I attempt either I end up with errors stating Pattern Library has already been initialized or no config file found in project root. I've tried copying the empty json file into the public/pattern-library directory and I still cannot proceed. A similar issue has been closed here.

jackw@jackws-mac ~/Documents/astrum-test $ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   3 jackw  staff   102 22 Apr 18:25 .
drwx------+ 18 jackw  staff   612 22 Apr 18:07 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 jackw  staff  6148 22 Apr 18:12 .DS_Store
jackw@jackws-mac ~/Documents/astrum-test $ mkdir -p public/pattern-library
jackw@jackws-mac ~/Documents/astrum-test $ astrum init public/pattern-library/
/Users/jackw/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/astrum/manager/utils.js:41
                throw(new Error(chalk.red('Pattern library has already been initialized.')));
                ^

Error: Pattern library has already been initialized.
    at /Users/jackw/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/astrum/manager/utils.js:41:23
    at FSReqWrap.cb [as oncomplete] (fs.js:239:19)
jackw@jackws-mac ~/Documents/astrum-test $ astrum new navigation/primary
/Users/jackw/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/astrum/manager/utils.js:24
            throw(new Error(chalk.red("No astrum-config.json file found in project root.")));
            ^

Error: No astrum-config.json file found in project root.
    at Object.init (/Users/jackw/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/astrum/manager/utils.js:24:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/jackw/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/astrum/manager/astrum-new.js:9:7)
    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:488:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:605:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:420:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:139:9)
jackw@jackws-mac ~/Documents/astrum-test $ which astrum
/Users/jackw/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/bin/astrum
jackw@jackws-mac ~/Documents/astrum-test $ astrum -V
1.9.3
jackw@jackws-mac ~/Documents/astrum-test $ npm -v
3.10.10
jackw@jackws-mac ~/Documents/astrum-test $ node -v
v7.2.1

I've tried copying the example json file in the readme and I receive the same errors.

What behaviour would you expect?

As described in the readme file - to be able to initialise a project and create new components.

How can this issue be replicated?

Clean install on Mac OS Sierra.

Your environment

Platform: Mac
OS Version: MacOs Sierra 10.12.3
Node Version: 7.2.1
NPM Version: 3.10.10
Astrum Version: 1.9.3

I'm running NVM which apparently fixed the issue for @philbert440.

Any ideas?

[jackw]

I've figured out the error of my ways. The issue occurs when trying to initialise a directory that already exists. Doing so results in an empty config file in root and an error message that doesn't really make sense in these conditions.

[RyanHavoc]

@jackw I'll look to add in additional checks and feedback to help avoid this in future.