npm package fails to install "npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied"

[pallatee]

While trying to install a packge with npm (for example lodash) it fails with error message:

npm ERR! Linux 3.4.0+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "lodash"
npm ERR! node v5.10.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.8.3
npm ERR! path /root/test/node_modules/.staging/lodash-9a2aabe2
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall rename

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/root/test/node_modules/.staging/lodash-9a2aabe2' -> '/root/test/node_modules/lodash'
npm ERR!     at destStatted (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/action/finalize.js:25:7)
npm ERR!     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/root/test/node_modules/.staging/lodash-9a2aabe2' -> '/root/test/node_modules/lodash'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  [Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/root/test/node_modules/.staging/lodash-9a2aabe2' -> '/root/test/node_modules/lodash']
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /root/test/npm-debug.log

I have tried to install it both with and without starting bash in administrator mode.

[borovaka]

There is another wired thing about npm. When I try to install gulp globally I get:

Error: could not get uid/gid
net.js:135
    this._handle.open(options.fd);
                 ^

Error: EINVAL: invalid argument, uv_pipe_open
    at Error (native)
    at new Socket (net.js:135:18)
    at createWritableStdioStream (internal/process/stdio.js:142:16)
    at process.stdout (internal/process/stdio.js:10:14)
    at console.js:99:37
    at NativeModule.compile (node.js:395:5)
    at Function.NativeModule.require (node.js:340:18)
    at node.js:223:27
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/uid-number/get-uid-gid.js:16:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)

    at /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/uid-number/uid-number.js:37:16
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:209:5)
    at emitTwo (events.js:100:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:185:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:850:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:323:11)
    at emitOne (events.js:90:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:182:7)
    at Pipe._onclose (net.js:475:12)

[jamesscholeyweb]

Same here. In fact if I try to update npm update -g npm@latest it attempts to copy lodash to the staging directory then throws the errror. Following this subsequent attempts to use npm are broken because it can no longer find lodash.

IMPORTANT

This really should be of utmost importance to the team. I for one was very excited and love how everything else works, but as you are adding this feature to windows with the intention of bringing web developers back to windows this needs fixing ASAP. This alone will stop me switching back to windows for web development and I'm sure it will be the same for many. It defeats the purpose of switching for me. Please please please fix.

[jgchristopher]

@borovaka you can fix that error by allowing unsafe perms

npm config set unsafe-perm=true

[jamesscholeyweb]

Already tried. It bypasses the error but it still doesn't work. You will
get a permissions access error still or at least I did.

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[jgchristopher]

@jamesscholeyweb right, I was able to get to your error after setting those perms. Otherwise I wasn't able to do anything.

[jgchristopher]

This seems to be the underlying issue.

root@localhost:/usr/lib/node_modules/.staging# rename /usr/lib/node_modules/.staging/lodash-24c8c2f4 /usr/lib/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/babel-core/node_modules/lodash Bareword found where operator expected at (eval 1) line 1, near "24c8c2f4" (Missing operator before c8c2f4?) Unknown regexp modifier "/b" at (eval 1) line 1, at end of line syntax error at (eval 1) line 1, near "/."

[Sparticuz]

Related: MicrosoftDocs/WSL#26

It seems to be an issue with symlinks

[jbaribeault]

Confirmed - this is totally related to the symlink issue.

[jamespacileo]

Same here with

npm install typescript

Here's the output

npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/root/package.json'
npm WARN root No description
npm WARN root No repository field.
npm WARN root No README data
npm WARN root No license field.
npm ERR! Linux 3.4.0+
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "typescript" "gulp" "tsd"
npm ERR! node v5.10.1
npm ERR! npm  v3.8.3
npm ERR! path /root/node_modules/.staging/ansi-regex-0de81b15
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall rename

npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/root/node_modules/.staging/ansi-regex-0de81b15' -> '/root/node_modules/ansi-regex'
npm ERR!     at destStatted (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install/action/finalize.js:25:7)
npm ERR!     at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/root/node_modules/.staging/ansi-regex-0de81b15' -> '/root/node_modules/ansi-regex'
npm ERR!     at Error (native)
npm ERR!  [Error: EACCES: permission denied, rename '/root/node_modules/.staging/ansi-regex-0de81b15' -> '/root/node_modules/ansi-regex']
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /root/npm-debug.log

[russalex]

This looks a lot like #3. We can keep the conversation going on there.

What I can say right now is that things are getting better (at least in non-mnt directories.). On my dev box I see:

russ@RUSSALEX-DESK:~/tmp$ npm list
/home/russ/tmp
├── acorn@3.0.4
├─┬ gulp@3.9.1
│ ├── archy@1.0.0
│ ├─┬ chalk@1.1.3
│ │ ├── ansi-styles@2.2.1
│ │ ├── escape-string-regexp@1.0.5
│ │ ├─┬ has-ansi@2.0.0
│ │ │ └── ansi-regex@2.0.0
│ │ ├─┬ strip-ansi@3.0.1
│ │ │ └── ansi-regex@2.0.0
│ │ └── supports-color@2.0.0
│ ├── deprecated@0.0.1
│ ├─┬ gulp-util@3.0.7
│ │ ├── array-differ@1.0.0

It goes on from there. I should point out that I have not tried to actually use any of these, I have only installed them.

The team is hard at work getting stuff up and running. Npm is one of those things we're looking at now.

[russalex]

Full disclosure here. Doing a little more testing on our internal build and finding that doing an "npm -g install " still throws the uv_pipe_open error, even when in ~/tmp.

We have someone looking into it.