Rhett Hildebrandt
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

I’m trying to run from Ubuntu 14.04 from VirtualBox on Windows 10. It installs fine, but then when I go to use now like now --login it says

/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/bin/now: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

I updated meteor and meteor-now (o.2.2). Same problem. When I run meteor-now -d I get:

[METEOR-NOW] - creating supervisor
[METEOR-NOW] - splitting bundle
[METEOR-NOW] - looking for meteor settings file development.settings.json in root of project
[METEOR-NOW] - could not read development.settings.json
[METEOR-NOW] - no settings file found
WARNING: Did not pass a MONGO_URL. Bundling a NON-PRODUCTION version of MongoDB with your application. Read about the limitations here: https://git.io/vM72E
[METEOR-NOW] - running command: cd .meteor/local/builds && now -e PORT=3000 -e MONGO_URL=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017 -e ROOT_URL=http://localhost.com -d
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/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/bin/now: 1: /home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/bin/now: ELF: not found
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/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/bin/now: 19: /home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/bin/now: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
Possibly unhandled Error: 2
at Promise$_rejecter (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:590:44)
at /home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/index.js:85:13
at tryCatch1 (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:63:19)
at Promise$_callHandler [as _callHandler] (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:695:13)
at Promise$_settlePromiseFromHandler [as _settlePromiseFromHandler] (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:711:18)
at Promise$_settlePromiseAt [as _settlePromiseAt] (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:868:14)
at Promise$_settlePromises [as _settlePromises] (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:1006:14)
at Promise$_rejectPromises [as _rejectPromises] (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:999:10)
at Async$_consumeFunctionBuffer [as _consumeFunctionBuffer] (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:74:12)
at Async$consumeFunctionBuffer (/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/lib/node_modules/meteor-now/node_modules/promise-spawner/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:37:14)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
/home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/bin/now: 18: /home/strykerx/.nvm/versions/node/v7.2.1/bin/now: @A:i: not found
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