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Why does Meteor develop server start up stuck, how to speed it up?

When starting Meteor server in developing environment with meteor, it always shows:

Downloading meteor-tool@1.3.4_4...

Hours past, it's still downloading this package.

Even to an example app:

meteor create --example todos
cd todos
meteor npm install
meteor # <-- stuck here

How to find out what makes it so slow? Is there any "debug mode" to print more information about the startup process?

My environment:

  • 4 CPUs, 8GB memory
  • Ubuntu 16.04
  • Meteor 1.4

System load < 0.2 according to top command.

Solution

  • This is a known issue. To resolve it, follow these steps:

    1) Install a fresh version of Meteor:

    curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

    2) Within your project, make sure it's updated to use Meteor 1.4:

    cd your_project; meteor update --release 1.4