TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'name' of object '[object Object]' on Node 6.3.1 --use-strict (Ubuntu 16.04)

[santoxyz]

ref is used in my project as a dependency to net-keepalive.

On my develop machine everything is fine... but when i deploy to target machine (same x64 architecture of develop machine, and same node version, but different OS version; i use archilinux on the develop machine) node exits with:

//----
TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'name' of object '[object Object]'
at Object.refType (/home/hemosafe2/robot/node_modules/net-keepalive/node_modules/ref/lib/ref.js:309:14)
at Object. (/home/hemosafe2/robot/node_modules/net-keepalive/node_modules/ffi/lib/type.js:22:42)
at Module._compile (module.js:541:32)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:550:10)
at Module.load (module.js:458:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:417:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:409:3)
at Module.require (module.js:468:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Object. (/home/hemosafe2/robot/node_modules/net-keepalive/node_modules/ffi/lib/cif.js:6:12)
//----

i'm too noob in javascrpt and absolutely not able to understand this error; but searched on Stackoverflow and found this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44288164/cannot-assign-to-read-only-property-name-of-object-object-object

so i tried this fix, and seems it worked:

in node_modules/net-keepalive/node_modules/ref/lib/ref.js :

exports.refType = function refType (type) {
var _type = exports.coerceType(type)
var rtn = Object.create(_type)
rtn.indirection++
if (_type.name) {
- rtn.name = _type.name + ''
+ Object.defineProperty(rtn, 'name', {
+ writable: true,
+ value: _type.name + ''
+ });
}
return rtn
}