[BUG] Unable to Start Claude - Started 2 hour ago. On going sessions still work fine

Same error for me.

OS: macos Sequoia 15.5
node: 18.14.2
npm: 9.5.0

Claude Code war running successfully, then I exited the session and tried to start Claude Code again and was hit with the following error:

SyntaxError: The requested module 'node:events' does not provide an export named 'addAbortListener'
at ModuleJob._instantiate (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:124:21)
at async ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:190:5)

I reinstalled Claude Code, uninstalled it and installed it from scratch, but the error is still the same.

Seeing the same behavior in a node 18.5.0 environment on both macOS and Ubuntu. This appears to be isolated to the 1.0.68 update because manually downgrading to 1.0.67 fixes the issue.

A temporary workaround for those experiencing this issue is to downgrade to 1.0.67 and disable the auto updater when running claude

# downgrade
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@1.0.67

# disable auto updater
DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 claude

Seeing the same behavior in a node 18.5.0 environment on both macOS and Ubuntu. This appears to be isolated to the 1.0.68 update because manually downgrading to 1.0.67 fixes the issue. A temporary workaround for those experiencing this issue is to downgrade to 1.0.67 and disable the auto updater when running claude # downgrade npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@1.0.67 # disable auto updater DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 claude

I can confirm that downgrading worked for me too.

I can also confirm that I've downgrade and it worked

Hey folks - as a workaround, upgrading to Node.js 18.18 will resolve this (see https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.18.0 / a68a67f54d).

Noting that Node.js 18 is EOL as of earlier this year, I'm looking into the recently added dependency on addAbortListener.

Downgrading worked for me, too.

We've got a patch incoming that removes the dependency on addAbortListener. For those of you who can't upgrade to a non-EOL version of Node, this patch will make Node 18.0.0 through 18.17.1 work properly again.

This should release in Claude Code version 1.0.71.

yep donwgrading works. I was sure they were QAing auto upgrades before releaseing them

downgrading using npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@1.0.67 resulted in a new error for me:

SyntaxError: The requested module 'node:stream' does not provide an export named 'getDefaultHighWaterMark'
    at ModuleJob._instantiate (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:124:21)
    at async ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:190:5)

Node.js v18.15.0

@k-funk

I was on Node.js v18.16.1, and saw the same error as you initially. Downgrading Claude fixed it for me.

Downgrading works. npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@1.0.67

SyntaxError: The requested module 'node:stream' does not provide an export named 'getDefaultHighWaterMark'
at ModuleJob._instantiate (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:123:21)
at async ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:189:5)

Node.js v19.6.0

This should be feeling better with Claude Code 1.0.70

This should be feeling better with Claude Code 1.0.70

I just tested and upgraded. I could start without any problem.

Thank you

Yes, both versions 1.0.67 and 1.0.70 works

I've tried installing 1.0.70 and am still getting the same error when trying to start claude. Is there anything else that needs doing after installing the specific version? I'm on node v20.4.0.

UPDATE: Upgraded node to 22.18.0 and am cooking with fire again.

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