[Bug?]: Error: Dynamic require of "util" is not supported

[joezappie]

Self-service

• I'd be willing to implement a fix

Describe the bug

I've tried on both node 18.8.2 and 20.8.1, uninstalling nodejs in between to try to clear it out.

I run corepack enable. Then I try to set the version to anything and it fails with Error: Dynamic require of "util" is not supported

yarn set version berry
yarn set version latest
yarn set version 3.6.4
yarn set version 2

Stack Trace

C:\Users\joeja>yarn dlx -q envinfo --preset jest
file:///C:/Users/joeja/AppData/Local/node/corepack/yarn/3.6.3/yarn.js:4
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                                ^

Error: Dynamic require of "util" is not supported
    at file:///C:/Users/joeja/AppData/Local/node/corepack/yarn/3.6.3/yarn.js:4:393
    at file:///C:/Users/joeja/AppData/Local/node/corepack/yarn/3.6.3/yarn.js:309:2848
    at file:///C:/Users/joeja/AppData/Local/node/corepack/yarn/3.6.3/yarn.js:744:8770
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:217:25)
    at async ModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:316:24)
    at async loadESM (node:internal/process/esm_loader:34:7)
    at async handleMainPromise (node:internal/modules/run_main:66:12)

Node.js v20.8.1

C:\Users\joeja>yarn -v
1.22.19

To reproduce

N/A - Cant reproduce

Environment

Windows 11 Pro 22H2

Even running `yarn dlx -q envinfo --preset jest` gives me the same error of dynamic import so I cant get this information

Additional context

Did the update on my laptop and it worked fine there. I understand this may just be a weird issue with my windows install and I've been meaning to do a fresh install so it might just be time for that. Figured I'd post the issue in since 4.0 just released and figured it might be related.

[wojtekmaj]

Potentially related: evanw/esbuild#2113

[joezappie]

I just resolved this.

Someone in the discord suggested I may have a package.json in my users folder. After deleting that, I was able to set my version to berry but it also broke yarn. I couldn't run any yarn commands as it would just error out saying it couldnt find 1.22.19.

I uninstalled node and deleted all the following folders:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodejs
C:\Program Files\Nodejs
C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\npm
C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache
C:\Users\{User}\.npmrc
C:\Users\{User}\package.json
C:\Users\{User}\package-lock.json
C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Local\Temp\npm-*            

After reinstalling node, I enabled corepack, went into my project, set the version to berry and its all working again.

[naruto00fa]

Thanks @jrj2211 , solve my problem. For me just remove C:\Users{User}\package.json
C:\Users{User}\package-lock.json is enough.

But hard to find this answer, can you update this issue title with Error: Dynamic require of "util" is not supported for others to find here?

[joezappie]

@naruto00fa Updated the title.

Interesting, I had originally also tried to just remove the C:\Users{User}\package-lock.json but still got the same error. For any future people finding this, I guess it would make sense to try that first, before completely wiping node.

[rasgo-cc]

@jrj2211 I'm getting this when type: module is defined in the package.json. Any idea why?

Even running yarn --version gives me this error. If I remove the type: module, then I can get the version, which is:

➜ yarn --version
4.0.2

I'm on Node 18.12.1 (Windows 11)

Edit: not sure why but this was failing because I also had main: index.js. With that removed and type: module present the yarn --version works as expeced (as well as other yarn commands).

[DCzajkowski]

The problem happens only for yarn 4. I've downgraded to yarn 3.2.4 and it's working fine 🤷‍♀️

[JounQin]

I'm still facing this issue on Vercel. All versions >3.2.4 are all broken...

[wakaztahir]

Still facing this issue when deploying using a Dockerfile

FROM node:20-alpine

# Yarn modern installation
RUN corepack enable
RUN yarn set version stable

# Move to working directory /build
WORKDIR /

# Copy the code into the container
COPY . .

# Install dependencies
RUN yarn install

# Export necessary ports
EXPOSE 8080

# Running the script that runs both the Go and NodeJS servers
CMD ["npm", "run", "prod:start"]

[dilyanpalauzov]

I have this problem under linux, too. I have created a separate user. For that user $HOME is the root of the JS-project. It has $HOME/package.js . My understanding here is that $HOME/package.js is the root cause. So I changed to root, performed corepack use yarn@*, changed back to that user, and chowned the files to the user. This workaround does function, but is still a workaround.

[nfantone]

Stumbled upon this today, as well, on Alpine 3.19.

@wojtekmaj Maybe we should consider re-opening the issue (unless it's being tracked somewhere else)?

My problem was a package.json in my $HOME directory (which is a rather common thing to have in Dockerfile builder stages). Moving it to any other dir, made yarn work as expected.

~ $ pwd
/home/user

~ $ ls
app     package.json  public        server

~ $ corepack install
Adding yarn@4.1.1 to the cache...

~ $ yarn --version
file:///home/user/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.1.1/yarn.js:4

Error: Dynamic require of "util" is not supported
    at file:///home/user/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.1.1/yarn.js:4:394
    at file:///home/user/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.1.1/yarn.js:4:3572
    at file:///home/user/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.1.1/yarn.js:4:478
    at file:///home/user/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.1.1/yarn.js:9:45685
    at file:///home/user/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.1.1/yarn.js:4:478
    at file:///home/user/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.1.1/yarn.js:392:1509
    at file:///home/user/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.1.1/yarn.js:734:11937
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:222:25)
    at async ModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:323:24)
    at async loadESM (node:internal/process/esm_loader:28:7)

~ $ node --version
v20.12.1
~ $ npm --version
10.2.5
~ $ corepack --version
0.28.0

[luixo]

Stumbled upon this after adding "type": "module" to my root package.json while using corepack deploying on Vercel.

The error is described in a discussion in their repo and was closed.

This is reproduced as simple as:

# Outer package.json, could be anywhere up from the project dir
touch package.json && echo "{\"type\":\"module\"}" >> package.json

mkdir test && cd test
# Project package.json
touch package.json && echo "{\"packageManager\": \"yarn@3.8.4\"}" >> package.json
nvm use 20 # being specific just in case
corepack enable
yarn install

Logging console.log('typeof require', typeof require) on the top of the ~/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/3.8.4/yarn.js gives undefined in given setup, but function if outer json doesn't have "type": "module".
Having multiple package.jsons on the way up will resolve type to the topmost package.json.

@wojtekmaj
This might be a corepack problem, but I didn't dig deeper.

[theblockstalk]

I'm still facing this issue on Vercel. All versions >3.2.4 are all broken...
@JounQin

I got around this by overriding the vercel install command to:
corepack use yarn@4.3.1 && echo "yarnPath: ${HOME}/.cache/node/corepack/v1/yarn/4.3.1/yarn.js" >> .yarnrc.yml && yarn install
(change the yarn version to that desired)

[adamreisnz]

@joezappie could you reopen this issue please, as many of us are still having this problem with the latest yarn / in Docker etc. and none of the proposed solutions seem to work

[royalaid]

FWIW I worked around this issue by just committing the yarn release to the repo and redeploying to vercel. A bit janky but it works. YMMV.

[Supinic]

@joezappie I put together a simple Docker repository with a small NodeJS project that reproduces the issue. There is no excessive package.json in the project anywhere so that's not the issue.

https://github.com/Supinic/test-corepack-yarn-esm

[joezappie]

@adamreisnz @Supinic I've reopened the issue as it seems theres still some issues here past rogue package-lock.json files being in parent folders outside of the project. I don't use yarn for anything atm so its not a pressing issue for me, but hopefully someone on the yarn team can help out with this.

I did try your docker build file though and can confirm I get the util error as well.