Meteor doesn't start

hi, i ran the windows installer, created an app, changed into the app directory and typed run and got an error - please advise.

this is the text from my terminal.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
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C:\Users\ma-ia>cd C:\Users\ma-ia\meteor

C:\Users\ma-ia\meteor>meteor create simple
Created a new Meteor app in ‘simple’.

To run your new app:
cd simple
meteor

If you are new to Meteor, try some of the learning resources here:
https://www.meteor.com/learn

C:\Users\ma-ia\meteor>cd simple

C:\Users\ma-ia\meteor\simple>meteor run
[[[[[ C:\Users\ma-ia\meteor\simple ]]]]]

=> Started proxy.
=> Started MongoDB.
=> Errors prevented startup:

While loading plugin compileTemplatesBatch from package templating:
module.js:338:15: Cannot find module '…/modules/es6.object.get-own-property-descriptor’
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.
(C:\Users\ma-ia\AppData\Local.meteor\packages\templating\1.1.7\plugin.compileTemplatesBatch.os\npm\node_modules\meteor\ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\meteor\ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\meteor-ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\core-js\es6\object.js:12:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.
(C:\Users\ma-ia\AppData\Local.meteor\packages\templating\1.1.7\plugin.compileTemplatesBatch.os\npm\node_modules\meteor\ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\meteor\ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\meteor-ecmascript-runtime\server.js:1:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at npmRequire (C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:1665:14)
at Module.useNode (packages/modules-runtime.js:453:20)
at fileEvaluate (packages/modules-runtime.js:157:20)
at require (packages/modules-runtime.js:92:16)
at meteorInstall.node_modules.meteor.ecmascript-runtime.runtime.js (packages/ecmascript-runtime.js:24:18)
at fileEvaluate (packages/modules-runtime.js:158:9)
at require (packages/modules-runtime.js:92:16)
at packages/ecmascript-runtime.js:2832:15
at packages/ecmascript-runtime.js:2845:3

=> Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

and this is the output of my local host:

Your app is crashing. Here’s the latest log:
Started MongoDB.
Errors prevented startup:

While loading plugin compileTemplatesBatch from package templating:
module.js:338:15: Cannot find module '…/modules/es6.object.get-own-property-descriptor’
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (C:\Users\ma-ia\AppData\Local.meteor\packages\templating\1.1.7\plugin.compileTemplatesBatch.os\npm\node_modules\meteor\ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\meteor\ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\meteor-ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\core-js\es6\object.js:12:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object. (C:\Users\ma-ia\AppData\Local.meteor\packages\templating\1.1.7\plugin.compileTemplatesBatch.os\npm\node_modules\meteor\ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\meteor\ecmascript-runtime\node_modules\meteor-ecmascript-runtime\server.js:1:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at npmRequire (C:\tools\isobuild\bundler.js:1665:14)
at Module.useNode (packages/modules-runtime.js:453:20)
at fileEvaluate (packages/modules-runtime.js:157:20)
at require (packages/modules-runtime.js:92:16)
at meteorInstall.node_modules.meteor.ecmascript-runtime.runtime.js (packages/ecmascript-runtime.js:24:18)
at fileEvaluate (packages/modules-runtime.js:158:9)
at require (packages/modules-runtime.js:92:16)
at packages/ecmascript-runtime.js:2832:15
at packages/ecmascript-runtime.js:2845:3

Your application has errors. Waiting for file change.

1.3 is very new. Doesn’t look like you’re doing anything wrong. it might be worth reporting this as an issue here:

Have you upgraded to 1.3.1 yet? That fixed a number of Windows issues due to over-long path names.

I believe 1.3.1 is recommended now, so you should just need to:

meteor update

hi, thanks for writing back.
i got the windows installer from the meteor.com website 10 mins prior to creating and running the app - so i think it should be the last version.
anyway, i just typed meteor update and saw a loading-progress - once it hit 100% it changed to

C:\Users\ma-ia>meteor update
Downloading meteor-tool@1.3.1… |

and nothing happened for 15 mins. :expressionless:

any ideas?

i am running windows 10

Yeah - I don’t think the Windows installer is at 1.3.1, so install followed by update is the way to go AFAIK.

I’ve seen reports on the forum of the update taking a long time (1+ hrs) on Windows 10 (on Win 7 it was very quick for me).

I can only suggest you hang in there!

Did you run

meteor npm install

before

meteor