npm error

[lachmanfrantisek]

As we can see in cockpit-project/cockpit-ostree#31 (comment), the npm fails due to the permission of the .npm directory.

What about rebuilding the image?

Or, doing that chown command during startup of the container?

[jpopelka]

What about rebuilding the image?
Or, doing that chown command during startup of the container?

I think neither of those would work.

$ docker run -ti --rm -u 123456 usercont/sandcastle bash
$ npm install xyz
npm ERR!   sudo chown -R 123456:0 "/.npm"
$ ls -la /.npm
ls: cannot access '/.npm': No such file or directory
$ echo $HOME
/

The npm command tries to access $HOME/.npm, but given the $HOME is / it accesses /.npm.

After adding RUN mkdir /.npm && chmod a+rwx /.npm/ into Dockerfile I saw
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/src'
and after adding RUN chmod a+rwx /src/ I got
npm update check failed, try sudo chown -R $USER:$(id -gn $USER) /.config
so that's probably not the way and I think we need something like this when we start the container.

[lachmanfrantisek]

so that's probably not the way and I think we need something like this when we start the container.

That's what I've been worried about...;(

Thanks for the investigation.