# Kibana startup fails - Cannot find module 'source-map'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-cannot-find-module-source-map/38501>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 6, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-cannot-find-module-source-map/38501 "2016-01-06T11:38:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![arieljake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@arieljake](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arieljake)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-startup-fails-cannot-find-module-source-map/38501/11 "2016-07-12T21:24:48Z")

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This is still the case. Kind of a problem, no?

Devs with this set for apps we are developing can't necessarily unset this (except on projects using dotenv).

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