Earlier this week I started seeing failures on my Docker builds with a rather cryptic message: sh: 1: node: Permission denied. This was really strange, because I did not change anything significant enough to cause this error. Example of failing logs:
For netlify-cli:
Step 17/18 : RUN volta install netlify-cli --verbose ---> Running in 53c120c8aebb [verbose] Acquiring lock on Volta directory: /root/.volta/volta.lock [verbose] Found default configuration at '/root/.volta/tools/user/platform.json' [verbose] node@12.19.0 has already been fetched, skipping download [verbose] yarn@1.22.10 has already been fetched, skipping download [verbose] Installing netlify-cli with command: "npm" "install" "--global" "--loglevel=warn" "--no-update-notifier" "--no-audit" "netlify-cli" [verbose] [install stderr] npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated npm WARN deprecated object-keys@0.2.0: Please update to the latest object-keys sh: 1: node: Permission denied npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@~2.1.2 (node_modules/netlify-cli/node_modules/rollup/node_modules/fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"}) npm WARN @octokit/plugin-request-log@1.0.1 requires a peer of @octokit/core@>=3 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself. npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! syscall spawn npm ERR! file sh npm ERR! errno ENOENT npm ERR! netlify-cli@2.65.7 postinstall: `node ./scripts/postinstall.js` npm ERR! spawn ENOENT npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the netlify-cli@2.65.7 postinstall script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. For ember-cli:
Step 17/18 : RUN volta install ember-cli netlify-cli --verbose ---> Running in c09e5ec1b6cf [verbose] Acquiring lock on Volta directory: /root/.volta/volta.lock [verbose] Found default configuration at '/root/.volta/tools/user/platform.json' [verbose] node@12.19.0 has already been fetched, skipping download [verbose] yarn@1.22.10 has already been fetched, skipping download [verbose] Installing ember-cli with command: "npm" "install" "--global" "--loglevel=warn" "--no-update-notifier" "--no-audit" "ember-cli" [verbose] [install stderr] npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated npm WARN deprecated core-js@2.6.11: core-js@<3 is no longer maintained and not recommended for usage due to the number of issues. Please, upgrade your dependencies to the actual version of core-js@3. sh: 1: node: Permission denied npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! syscall spawn npm ERR! file sh npm ERR! errno ENOENT npm ERR! core-js@2.6.11 postinstall: `node -e "try{require('./postinstall')}catch(e){}"` npm ERR! spawn ENOENT npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the core-js@2.6.11 postinstall script. The error message looks slightly different in each case.
What I think is the problem: In my Docker container, I'm using Volta for node/yarn version management. And for the volta install command it internally uses npm install --global, which does not like to run when the script is executed as root.
So the solution was to add following line to my Dockerfile just before the volta install command:
RUN npm set unsafe-perm true 
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