npm install hangs on "buildDeps"

Question

Since today, npm install hangs on the buildDeps step. It worked fine yesterday but ceased to work today. No updates of any kind had been done in the meantime, i.e. I do not see any reason why it simply stopped to work.

It also does not fail just for a single, specific package or project, the install also fails for other packages and when installing something globally. I have tried deleting the package-lock.json.

It does not hang forever, but for very long (several minutes). Eventually, a timeout error will be thrown. This error is not always thrown by the "buildDeps" stage, sometimes npm is able to go past this stage (after several minutes, as mentioned).

I am using Arch Linux and npm v8.5.5. I have done a complete system-update since the error started to occur, the problem remained the same.

Below you can find the complete logs of npm's verbose output.

npm verb cli [    
npm verb cli   '/usr/bin/node',    
npm verb cli   '/usr/bin/npm',    
npm verb cli   'i',    
npm verb cli   '@reactjs/toolkit',    
npm verb cli   'redux',    
npm verb cli   'immer',    
npm verb cli   '--verbose'
npm verb cli ]
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
npm timing npm:load:whichnode Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:defaults Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:file:/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/npmrc Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:builtin Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:cli Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:env Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:file:/home/.../.npmrc Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:project Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:file:/home/.../.npmrc Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:user Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load:file:/usr/etc/npmrc Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:global Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:validate Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:credentials Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:setEnvs Completed in 1ms
npm timing config:load Completed in 6ms
npm timing npm:load:configload Completed in 6ms
npm timing npm:load:setTitle Completed in 0ms
npm timing config:load:flatten Completed in 2ms
npm timing npm:load:display Completed in 5ms
npm verb logfile /home/.../.npm/_logs/2022-04-23T18_55_05_128Z-debug-0.log
npm timing npm:load:logFile Completed in 2ms
npm timing npm:load:timers Completed in 0ms
npm timing npm:load:configScope Completed in 0ms
npm timing npm:load Completed in 16ms
npm timing arborist:ctor Completed in 1ms
npm timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms
npm timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms
npm timing arborist:ctor Completed in 0ms
npm timing idealTree:init Completed in 892ms
npm timing idealTree:userRequests Completed in 1ms
(⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂) ⠧ idealTree:generator-ui: sill idealTree buildDeps