[ERR!] Exit handler never called!

[DAOCMINECRAFT]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

This issue exists in the latest npm version

• I am using the latest npm

Current Behavior

It gives me this ERROR:

npm ERR! Exit handler never called!

npm ERR! This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR! https://github.com/npm/cli/issues

and in other versions this:

npm ERR! code ECONNREFUSED
npm ERR! syscall connect
npm ERR! errno ECONNREFUSED
npm ERR! FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/@ungap/promise-all-settled/-/promise-all-settled-1.1.2.tgz failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 2606:4700::6810:1823:443
npm ERR! at ClientRequest. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\minipass-fetch\lib\index.js:130:14)
npm ERR! at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:513:28)
npm ERR! at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:502:9)
npm ERR! at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:525:35)
npm ERR! at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:151:8)
npm ERR! at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:116:3)
npm ERR! at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
npm ERR! FetchError: request to https://registry.npmjs.org/@ungap/promise-all-settled/-/promise-all-settled-1.1.2.tgz failed, reason: connect ECONNREFUSED 2606:4700::6810:1823:443
npm ERR! at ClientRequest. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\minipass-fetch\lib\index.js:130:14)
npm ERR! at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:513:28)
npm ERR! at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:502:9)
npm ERR! at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:525:35)
npm ERR! at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:151:8)
npm ERR! at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:116:3)
npm ERR! at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
npm ERR! code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
npm ERR! errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
npm ERR! syscall: 'connect',
npm ERR! address: '2606:4700::6810:1823',
npm ERR! port: 443,
npm ERR! type: 'system'
npm ERR! }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! 'proxy' config is set properly. See: 'npm help config'

Expected Behavior

it should install all dependencies from this project

Steps To Reproduce

1. clone vscode extension sample from this git repository: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples
2. open cmd in vscode-extension-samples\lsp-sample
3. run: npm install

Environment

• npm: 9.6.4
• Node.js: 20.0.0
• OS Name: Windows 11
• System Model Name:
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[wraithgar]

ipv6 issues as per those logs. duplicate of either #4028 or #3359