Node.js: Python not found exception due to node-sass and node-gyp

Suddenly in one of my jenkins environment build has started failing, while in local machine it seems to be working fine as i have python installed,

From the logs i was able to detect that the problem is with internal dependency that is node-gyp v3.5.0 from node-sass v3.8.0 when i researched by visiting this about node-gyp and found the prerequisite that Python needs to be installed.

So my question is that what version of node-sass can i install to bypass this or is there a better solution as my build was running fine till this morning on the same environment.

Node v5.10.1

ERROR LOG

gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python2" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` failed Error: not found: python2
gyp verb `which` failed     at getNotFoundError (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12)
gyp verb `which` failed     at F (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19)
gyp verb `which` failed     at E (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29)
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\isexe\index.js:44:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:29:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)
gyp verb `which` failed  python2 { [Error: not found: python2] code: 'ENOENT' }
gyp verb check python checking for Python executable "python" in the PATH
gyp verb `which` failed Error: not found: python
gyp verb `which` failed     at getNotFoundError (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\which\which.js:13:12)
gyp verb `which` failed     at F (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\which\which.js:68:19)
gyp verb `which` failed     at E (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\which\which.js:80:29)
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\which\which.js:89:16
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\isexe\index.js:44:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\isexe\windows.js:29:5
gyp verb `which` failed     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)
gyp verb `which` failed  python { [Error: not found: python] code: 'ENOENT' }
gyp verb could not find "python". checking python launcher 
gyp verb could not find "python". guessing location 
gyp verb ensuring that file exists: C:\Python27\python.exe
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable.
gyp ERR! stack     at Object.failNoPython (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:454:19)
gyp ERR! stack     at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:480:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\graceful-fs\polyfills.js:284:29
gyp ERR! stack     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 6.3.9600
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Jenkins\\jobs\\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\\workspace\\src\\NdbSite.UI\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild" "--verbose" "--libsass_ext=" "--libsass_cflags=" "--libsass_ldflags=" "--libsass_library="
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Program Files (x86)\Jenkins\jobs\NdbSite-hot-fix-Manual-PreBuild\workspace\src\NdbSite.UI\node_modules\node-sass
gyp ERR! node -v v5.10.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.5.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
Build failed

Any thoughts are much appreciated, Thanks.

Solution 1:

so this happened to me on windows recently. I fix it by following the following steps using a PowerShell with admin privileges:

1. delete node_modulesfolder
2. running npm install --global windows-build-tools with administrative privilege. (in my case need restart - and restart without ask!!!)
3. reinstalling node modules or node-sass with npm install

Solution 2:

The error message means that it cannot locate your python executable or binary.

In many cases, it's installed at c:\python27. if it's not installed yet, you can install it with npm install --global windows-build-tools, which will only work if it hasn't been installed yet.

Adding it to the environment variables does not always work. A better alternative, is to just set it in the npm config.

npm config set python c:\python27\python.exe