[CB-13619] cordova plugin add failing "no such file or directory file:tools"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: cordova@7.0.0
• Component/s: cordova-cli
• Labels: android cli

Environment

OSX 10.12.5
alex@alex ~/P/e/tracking> cordova -v
7.1.0

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alex
• Created: 30/Nov/17 15:11
• Updated: 30/Nov/17 15:13

Description

After plugins correctly installing for weeks, adding new plugins is suddenly failing with the following:

alex@alex ~/P/e/tracking> cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebase
Error: Failed to fetch plugin cordova-plugin-firebase via registry.
Probably this is either a connection problem, or plugin spec is incorrect.
Check your connection and plugin name/version/URL.
Error: npm: Command failed with exit code 254 Error output:
npm WARN com.sidigital.tracking@1.0.2 No repository field.
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: cordova-serve@file:file:tools/cordova-serve-2.0.0.tgz (node_modules/cordova-browser/node_modules/cordova-serve):
npm WARN enoent SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/Users/alex/Projects/experiments/tracking/file:tools/cordova-serve-2.0.0.tgz'

npm ERR! path /Users/alex/Projects/experiments/tracking/file:cordova-dist/tools/cordova-common-2.1.1.tgz
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall stat
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/Users/alex/Projects/experiments/tracking/file:cordova-dist/tools/cordova-common-2.1.1.tgz'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/alex/.npm/_logs/2017-11-30T15_01_20_854Z-debug.log

It keeps trying to find /file:tools/ inside the root of my project. It doesn't matter which plugin I try to install