[BUG] <title>

[timlricke-stack]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

This issue exists in the latest npm version

• I am using the latest npm

Current Behavior

PS C:\Users\Administrator\ai-playground\workers-ai-image-playground> npm install --allow-git=root
npm error Exit handler never called!
npm error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm error https://github.com/npm/cli/issues
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2026-04-04T14_46_06_344Z-debug-0.log

Expected Behavior

install dependencies

Steps To Reproduce

1. In this environment...
2. With this config...
3. Run 'npm install --allow-git=root..'
4. See error...C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\npm-cache_logs\2026-04-04T14_46_06_344Z-debug-0.log

Environment

• npm: 11.12.1
• Node.js: 22.21.0
• OS Name: windows 11
• System Model Name:
• npm config:

; copy and paste output from `npm config ls` here

PS C:\Users\Administrator\ai-playground\workers-ai-image-playground> npm config ls
; "user" config from C:\Users\Administrator.npmrc

//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken = (protected)

; node bin location = C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Volta\tools\image\node\22.21.0\node.exe
; node version = v22.21.0
; npm local prefix = C:\Users\Administrator\ai-playground\workers-ai-image-playground
; npm version = 11.12.1
; cwd = C:\Users\Administrator\ai-playground\workers-ai-image-playground
; HOME = C:\Users\Administrator
; Run npm config ls -l to show all defaults.

[funktionalsystems]

Encountered this with Node version: v22.22.2 NPM version: 10.9.7 OS: Linux
But it turned out to be a network issue in our infrastructure.

May be related to #8429 ?