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npm ERR! cb() never called!

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Mar 14, 20260 views
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I want to install create-react-app but bump along with this bug, i have tried many solutions/articles and in stack overflow like, cache verify, cache cleaning, and many stuffs but still making this error, any help for this problem ? 2020-10-07T11_11_07_015Z-debug.log node -v v12.19.0 npm -v 6.14.8

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Solution: npm ERR! cb() never called!

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I also encountered the same error on: Node v14 and v12 alpine on docker NPM v6.14.8

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    I also encountered the same error on:

    Node v14 and v12 alpine on docker NPM v6.14.8

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Resolved in npm/cli GitHub issue #1916. Community reactions: 0 upvotes.

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