execvp(): No such file or directory about katon HOT 8 CLOSED

It may be a PATH problem.

Are you using something like nvm?
What do you get when you run which node?

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Not using nvm (or anything similar).

Node installed via homebrew.

$ which node
/usr/local/bin/node
$ which lineman
/usr/local/share/npm/bin/lineman

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Just did a fresh node install on OS X Mavericks using brew and installed globally both katon and lineman using $ npm install -g

After that I created a lineman project:

$ lineman new test
$ cd test
$ katon link
$ tail -f katon.log
Running "pages:dev" (pages) task
generated/index.html generated from app/pages/index.us

Running "dev" task
...

But lineman wasn't installed in the same path:

$ which node
/usr/local/bin/node
$ which lineman
/usr/local/bin/lineman

So that may be the cause of the execvp() error.

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Did it help?

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I created a symlink into /usr/local/bin and that at least got the app running. (Now there are other problems, but that's separate.)

So the concern now is, why is katon not respecting my $PATH? /usr/local/share/npm had been npm's original prefix for quite a long time. It has only recently changed (I believe it was changed when npm started coming bundled with node). However, the current brew formula for node still uses /usr/local/share/npm if the directory exists. It only switches to /usr/local for completely fresh installs that don't already have that directory. And any node/npm installation that was installed prior to npm being bundled with node will have such a directory. (the brew caveats for node explicitly stated that /usr/local/share/npm ought to be added to $PATH)

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I am also having $PATH issues here...

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So I did a brew update and then upgrading node/npm to the latest and installed the globals I needed to easily get past this for good.

Also, once execvp(): No such file or directory is thrown, it seems I have to kill -9 the katon process to get it to try and start up the app again.

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0.5.x fixes this kind of problem, closing the issue.

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