Properly handle errors that can occur in the config-loading process

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/npm.js b/lib/npm.js
index f2319bfd5..344e4d348 100644
--- a/lib/npm.js
+++ b/lib/npm.js
@@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ npm.load = function (cli, cb_) {
 
   function cb (er) {
     if (loadErr) return
+    loadErr = er
+    if (er) return cb_(er)
     if (npm.config.get("force")) {
       log.warn("using --force", "I sure hope you know what you are doing.")
     }
@@ -307,6 +309,9 @@ function load (npm, cli, cb) {
     npmconf.load(cli, builtin, function (er, config) {
       if (er === config) er = null
 
+      npm.config = config
+      if (er) return cb(er)
+
       // Include npm-version and node-version in user-agent
       var ua = config.get("user-agent") || ""
       ua = ua.replace(/\{node-version\}/gi, process.version)
@@ -315,8 +320,6 @@ function load (npm, cli, cb) {
       ua = ua.replace(/\{arch\}/gi, process.arch)
       config.set("user-agent", ua)
 
-      npm.config = config
-
       var color = config.get("color")
 
       log.level = config.get("loglevel")