Cloud9 tries to recreate .settings file - cloud9-ide

Question

I've installed Cloud9 IDE on my linux machine in order to play around with it a bit (I had to use nodejs 0.8 because cloud9 uses a package that depends on node-waf, which is no longer supported by higher versions of nodejs).
I can start it up without problems, however when I try to access Cloud9 via browser, it constantly gives me the error message: File already exists.. Here's a trace from the log:
Error: File already exists.
at module.exports.from (/home/xyz/repos/cloud9/node_modules/vfs-local/localfs.js:678:35)
at Object.fs.exists [as oncomplete] (fs.js:91:19)
Relevant code section:
exists(topath, function(exists){
if (options.overwrite || !exists) {
// Rename the file
fs.rename(frompath, topath, function (err) {
if (err) return callback(err);
// Rename metadata
if (options.metadata !== false) {
rename(WSMETAPATH + from, {
to: WSMETAPATH + to,
metadata: false
}, function(err){
callback(null, meta);
});
}
});
}
else {
var err = new Error("File already exists.");
err.code = "EEXIST";
callback(err);
}
When the error occurs, the topath variable is set to the workspace settings file (/home/xyz/repos/cloud9/workspace/.settings)
Has anyone else had an error like this? How can I resolve it?
thx in advance

Answer 1

Reinstalling cloud9
First option, maybe you could try using this workaround installation procedure:
https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9/issues/2904#issuecomment-22518669
Second option, if you are willing to always use an older node-version for running cloud9 as you indicated, I used the following installation procedure and it worked (assuming you already installed nvm). Then you can still use the cloud9.sh-file for starting:
git clone git://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9.git
cd cloud9
nvm install 0.8.8
sed -i -e 's/~//g' package.json
npm config set ca=""
npm install
sed -i s/connect.session.file/connect.session.memory/ configs/default.js
Not sure if 0.8.8 is the best node-version for cloud9 but it works for me :)
Last step seems necessary because of https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9/issues/2005#issuecomment-11372587 :)
Then before starting cloud9 you always have to enter:
nvm use 0.8.8
Or you set 0.8.8 as the default node version if you don't use node much otherwise:
nvm alias default 0.8.8
Fix problem without reinstalling
Third option, if you don't want to repeat the installation procedure you could try just reinstalling the vfs-local-module in the cloud9 directory:
npm install vfs-local#0.3.4
Haven't tested this though :)