Bug: Ubuntu - jhipster:app freezes when specifying app type

[cm45t3r]

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Overview of the issue

jhipster app generator freezes when asking for application type, not allowing to choose among the options. When it happens, the terminal does not respond to any key (from Ctrl+C / Z to digits).

Motivation for or Use Case

Debugging the generator or yeoman do not show anything but seem to lock the terminal.

Reproduce the error

1. Install yeoman and generator-jhipster using yarn or npm.
2. mkdir myapp && cd myapp
3. jhipster
4. It asks to choose application type using arrows, but it completely freezes/hangs this time.

Related issues

Suggest a Fix

Seems to be caused directly by yeoman.

JHipster Version(s)

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JHipster configuration

user@host:~/myapplication$ yo jhipster:info
Welcome to the JHipster Information Sub-Generator

JHipster Version(s)

/home/user/myapplication
└── (empty)

cat: no such file or directory: .yo-rc.json

JHipster configuration, a .yo-rc.json file generated in the root folder

Entity configuration(s) entityName.json files generated in the .jhipster directory

ls: no such file or directory: .jhipster/*.json

Browsers and Operating System

java version "1.8.0_131"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

git version 2.7.4

node: v8.1.0

npm: 5.0.3

yeoman: 2.0.0

yarn: 0.24.6

Entity configuration(s) entityName.json files generated in the .jhipster directory

Browsers and Operating System

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

Linux main 4.4.0-79-generic #100-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 17 19:58:14 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[pascalgrimaud]

The problem comes from node 8. You should use a LTS version instead.
You can see this ticket #5905

[cm45t3r]

Thank you!