Add error message troubleshooting to npm registry doc

Add contributed error message and possible solution to npm
registry doc, added to a new troubleshooting section added
to the end of the doc.
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Marcel Amirault 2019-08-01 02:52:28 +00:00 committed by Evan Read
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You should now be able to download and upload NPM packages to your project.
NOTE: **Note:**
If you encounter an error message with [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/en/), see the
[troubleshooting section](#troubleshooting).
## Uploading packages
Before you will be able to upload a package, you need to specify the registry
@ -116,3 +120,29 @@ a given scope, you will receive a `403 Forbidden!` error.
If you upload a package with a same name and version twice, GitLab will show
both packages in the UI, but the GitLab NPM Registry will expose the most recent
one as it supports only one package per version for `npm install`.
## Troubleshooting
### Error running yarn with NPM registry
If you are using [yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/en/) with the NPM registry, you may get
an error message like:
```sh
yarn install v1.15.2
warning package.json: No license field
info No lockfile found.
warning XXX: No license field
[1/4] 🔍 Resolving packages...
[2/4] 🚚 Fetching packages...
error An unexpected error occurred: "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/XXX/packages/npm/XXX/XXX/-/XXX/XXX-X.X.X.tgz: Request failed \"404 Not Found\"".
info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/Users/XXX/gitlab-migration/module-util/yarn-error.log".
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command
```
In this case, try adding this to your `.npmrc` file (and replace `<your_oauth_token>`
with your with your OAuth or personal access token):
```text
//gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/:_authToken=<your_oauth_token>
```