grunt throw “Recursive process.nextTick detected”

Question

I\'m running Lion 10.9.2 with nodejs v0.10.26

I want to setup an automated compilation on sass files and a live reload with grunt, nothing complicated but...

Answer 1

Alternative solution: check your watch for an empty file argument.

Here's an excerpt of my gruntfile

watch: {
  all: {
    options:{
      livereload: true
    },
    files: ['src/scss/*.scss', 'src/foo.html',, 'src/bar.html'],
    tasks: ['default']
  }
}

In my case, I could recreate the original poster's error on demand with the empty argument above.

Answer 2

I was getting error in even trying to install grunt. Running npm dedupe solved my problem as answered here: Grunt watch error - Waiting...Fatal error: watch ENOSPC

Answer 3

I just fixed a similar error "Recursive process.nextTick detected" causing by command: grunt server

The solution? Use sudo grunt serve instead

Answer 4

you could try this one, it fixed the issue for me, working with Yeoman 1.3.3 and Ubuntu 14.04 Grunt watch error - Waiting...Fatal error: watch ENOSPC

Answer 5

Just had this problem. Resolved it by removing grunt.registerTask('watch', [ 'watch']);

Answer 6

I finally figured out a similar problem I was having with SASS. I was using

grunt.registerTask('sass', [ 'sass']);

The trick was that Grunt doesn't seem to like the repetition in names. When I switch to

grunt.registerTask('styles', [ 'sass']);

Everything worked as it should.