npm search causes massive resource usage, no output

[Jacob Killelea]

$ npm search [packagename] causes no results to appear, massive use of cpu and memory.

In addition, npm has trouble installing some packages - namely electron-prebuilt. However, that might a problem with that package and not npm.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: npm 3.5.2-0ubuntu4
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-040400-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Mar 16 16:41:01 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-24 (83 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20151209)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: npm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jacob Killelea (jkillelea344)]

for npm crash log see https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-prebuilt/issues/108

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Maarten Smeyers (maartensmeyers)]

I have the same problem with $ npm search [packagename] on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS