Timeout issues in Node 8

[WorldMaker]

I can't get JSPM installs to work in Node 8 due to cycling through GitHub and jspm-git timeouts. Before I revert my install of Node to LTS, I figured I should try to document the problem in case it helps.

One message early in the install:

warn TypeError: "timeout" must be an unsigned integer
     at validateTimeout (child_process.js:620:11)
     at Object.exports.execFile (child_process.js:183:3)
     at exports.exec (child_process.js:138:18)
     at ~...\node_modules\jspm-github\exec-git.js:54:9
     at initializePromise (~...\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:589:5)
     at new Promise$1 (~...\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:1077:33)
     at ~...\node_modules\jspm-github\exec-git.js:53:14
     at tryCatch (~...\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:539:12)
     at invokeCallback (~...\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:554:13)
     at ~...\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:629:16
     at flush (~...\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:2414:5)
     at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:95:7)
     at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:161:9)

Eventually at the end of the install it's just a ton of warnings like this until one of them errors:

warn Timed out on lookup for github:jspm/nodelibs-tls, retrying (3).
 To increase the timeout run jspm config registries.github.timeouts.lookup 120

I tried increasing the timeout as suggested and that did not appear to help.

Using jspm 0.16.53, Node 8 on Windows.

[gondalez]

npm install jspm-github@0.13.18 solved this for me

[nonplus]

npm install jspm-registry@0.4.4 was also necessary for me

Looks like Node 8 is stricter about the options.timeout parameter passed to child_process methods and no longer coerces a null value to 0.