title: Bower install hangs
body: <p>I am trying to install packages with bower. No matter what package I seem to try to install, bower outputs nothing and hangs. The verbose flag does not give more information.</p>
  
  <p>strace outputs a long series of:</p>
  
  <pre><code>gettimeofday({1401644126, 563885}, NULL) = 0
  gettimeofday({1401644126, 563944}, NULL) = 0
  futex(0xb720046c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And lsof outputs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>strace  19125 matt  rtd    DIR    8,6     4096       2 /
  strace  19125 matt  txt    REG    8,6   264024 3550363 /usr/bin/strace
  strace  19125 matt  mem    REG    8,6  1758972  263074 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so
  strace  19125 matt  mem    REG    8,6   134380  264066 /lib/i386-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so
  strace  19125 matt    0u   CHR 136,15      0t0      18 /dev/pts/15
  strace  19125 matt    1u   CHR 136,15      0t0      18 /dev/pts/15
  strace  19125 matt    2u   CHR 136,15      0t0      18 /dev/pts/15
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>npm is version 1.4.13 and bower is 1.3.3.</p>
  
  <p>The expected behavior is that the package be installed. Any idea what is happening?</p>