Meteor React.js Adding User Accounts Crashes Application - meteor

Question

I'm doing the Meteor React.js tutorial part 8 here:
https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/react/adding-user-accounts
My application has been running perfectly up until this point. It crashes the moment I follow the first step in the tutorial which is to add the account packages by running the following command:
meteor add accounts-ui accounts-password
Upon doing this and attempting to run the project, the run fails and give me the following Error log:
C:\Users\Barry\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\1.3.2_4\mt-os.windows.x86_32\dev_bundle\server-lib\node_modules\fibers\future.js:245
throw(ex);
^
Error: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.
C:\Users\Barry\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\npm-bcrypt\0.8.7_1\npm\node_modules\bcrypt\build\Release\bcrypt_lib.node
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at bindings (C:\Users\Barry\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\npm-bcrypt\0.8.7_1\npm\node_modules\bindings\bindings.js:76:44)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Barry\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\npm-bcrypt\0.8.7_1\npm\node_modules\bcrypt\bcrypt.js:3:35)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
Exited with code: 8
Your application is crashing. Waiting for file change.
What is causing this error to occur and how can I solve it?

Answer 1

There have been 9 (recommended) releases to Meteor since the version that you're using, and a lot of issues have been resolved around using bcrypt specifically. Try updating your app to the latest version of Meteor (via meteor update), remove your applications node_modules directory, and run a new meteor npm install.