After updating the appium version to 1.3.4.1, I get the below error when trying to start the appium server.
error: uncaughtException: Error parsing C:\Appium\node_modules\appium\node_modules\mkdirp\package.json: Unexpected token
error: uncaughtException: Error parsing C:\Appium\node_modules\appium\node_modules\mkdirp\package.json: Unexpected token date=Fri Feb 13 2015 19:47:57 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time), pid=5764, uid=null, gid=null, cwd=C:\Appium\node_modules\appium, execPath=C:\Appium\node.exe, version=v0.10.26, argv=[C:\Appium\node.exe, C:\Appium\node_modules\appium\lib\server\main.js, --address, 127.0.0.1, --port, 4723, --platform-name, Android, --platform-version, 18, --automation-name, Appium, --language, en, --locale, US, --log-no-color], rss=38248448, heapTotal=28908416, heapUsed=16625188, loadavg=[0, 0, 0], uptime=3186.7689284, trace=[column=null, file=null, function=Object.parse, line=null, method=parse, native=true, column=52, file=module.js, function=readPackage, line=113, method=null, native=false, column=13, file=module.js, function=tryPackage, line=123, method=null, native=false, column=18, file=module.js, function=Function.Module._findPath, line=190, method=Module._findPath, native=false, column=25, file=module.js, function=Function.Module._resolveFilename, line=336, method=Module._resolveFilename, native=false, column=25, file=module.js, function=Function.Module._load, line=280, method=Module._load, native=false, column=17, file=module.js, function=Module.require, line=364, method=require, native=false, column=17, file=module.js, function=require, line=380, method=null, native=false, column=14, file=C:\Appium\node_modules\appium\lib\server\helpers.js, function=, line=8, method=null, native=false, column=26, file=module.js, function=Module._compile, line=456, method=_compile, native=false, column=10, file=module.js, function=Object.Module._extensions…js, line=474, method=Module._extensions…js, native=false], stack=[SyntaxError: Error parsing C:\Appium\node_modules\appium\node_modules\mkdirp\package.json: Unexpected token