npm on windows cannot find internal/fs when installing anything.

[AraHaan]

• Version: v8.1.2
• Platform: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Build 7601
• Subsystem: internal/fs

E:\>npm install csslint jshint
npm ERR! code MODULE_NOT_FOUND
npm ERR! Cannot find module 'internal/fs'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     E:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2017-06-25T01_08_4
9_629Z-debug.log

the log:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ 'E:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'E:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'install',
1 verbose cli   'csslint',
1 verbose cli   'jshint' ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]
4 verbose npm-session 5a5f3cebb73b6654
5 verbose stack Error: Cannot find module 'internal/fs'
5 verbose stack     at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:485:15)
5 verbose stack     at Function.Module._load (module.js:437:25)
5 verbose stack     at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
5 verbose stack     at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
5 verbose stack     at evalmachine.<anonymous>:40:20
5 verbose stack     at Object.<anonymous> (E:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\cmd-shim\node_modules\graceful-fs\fs.js:11:1)
5 verbose stack     at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
5 verbose stack     at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
5 verbose stack     at Module.load (module.js:503:32)
5 verbose stack     at tryModuleLoad (module.js:466:12)
5 verbose stack     at Function.Module._load (module.js:458:3)
5 verbose stack     at Module.require (module.js:513:17)
5 verbose stack     at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
5 verbose stack     at Object.<anonymous> (E:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\cmd-shim\node_modules\graceful-fs\graceful-fs.js:3:27)
5 verbose stack     at Module._compile (module.js:569:30)
5 verbose stack     at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
6 verbose cwd E:\Hatsuse-Izuna
7 verbose Windows_NT 6.1.7601
8 verbose argv "E:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "E:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "csslint" "jshint"
9 verbose node v8.1.2
10 verbose npm  v5.0.3
11 error code MODULE_NOT_FOUND
12 error Cannot find module 'internal/fs'
13 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Other versions of node that also has this issue: 7.7.4

[hiroppy]

Maybe the same problem(#13361).

[AraHaan]

Yeah, it looks like it is the same issue as mac. I did not know that it was already reported. Sorry.

[AraHaan]

hmm it seems that after uninstalling latest node and attempting to reinstall that it wanted to find the installer for my old copy of v4.2.2 LTS. So, it might have been a conflict as it seems the windows installer could have installed right on top of it.

edit: doing this fixed my issues.