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Output from ember version --verbose && npm --version && yarn --version:

ember-cli: 3.3.0
http_parser: 2.8.0
node: 10.10.0
v8: 6.8.275.30-node.24
uv: 1.23.0
zlib: 1.2.11
ares: 1.14.0
modules: 64
nghttp2: 1.33.0
napi: 3
openssl: 1.1.0i
icu: 62.1
unicode: 11.0
cldr: 33.1
tz: 2018e
os: linux x64

npm 6.4.1

I ran into this issue when running ember serve on Openshift.

a user ID will be assigned by OpenShift regardless what is specified in the
DockerFile. This leads to the command os.userInfo() to fail with the
following error:

Running as user uid=1000120000 gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1000120000
....
....
A system error occurred: uv_os_get_passwd returned ENOENT (no such file or directory)

Doing a whoami will also fail

This actually use to cause a core dump, but was recently fixed to supply the error i'm currenlty getting.
see nodejs/node#22599, nodejs/node#22609 for context

It looks like the underlying module that makes the calls to os.userInfo is in the username-sync module, so i suppose that is where the possible fix would need to happen.

I'm usually using minishift so i can run openshift locally, then deploying my "ember new ember-app" application using a node module called "nodeshift"

high level gist: https://gist.github.com/lholmquist/b3382a33e5bccb55031744b056b00aab