Meteor 1.5 build stuck on startup

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My Meteor 1.5 builds are getting stuck on exactly the same point on both Windows and Linux (ubuntu and amazon linux). To reproduce this I’ve created a new meteor project and issued the following steps:

Init project called ‘src’

meteor create src

export MONGO_URL and ROOT_URL

URL is valid and mongo url is a working mongo database.

Running the build

cd src
npm install --production
# Put into parent folder
meteor build .. --directory
cd ../bundle/programs/server && npm install

Running the app

cd ../../ && node main.js

The unbuild version of the src app is working as expected with the MONGO_URL. But running the above command gives me nothing. This is what I see on both Windows and Linux:

I’ve kept it running for over 2 hours to be sure. Can anyone tell me if i’m either doing something wrong, or that its a bug and it needs to be reported?

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I’ve found the issue. There are 2 things that need to be present to have it work:

  • The ROOT_URL is required, but only works without a port
  • The PORT env var needs to be specified

Even so, there is no console feedback about this. Its empty like the image in my previous post.

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could it just be that it was running and listening on the default port 3000?

in production mode I believe the default meteor behavior is no output, so that could be the issue.