EACCES: permission denied, open '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js'

[binoysarker]

Hello sir i am new to docker, i am using ubuntu budgie 20.04 my docker version is
Docker version 18.09.9, build 1752eb3
i have install docker using snap package manager and the path is like this
/snap/bin/docker.machine /snap/bin/docker.compose /snap/bin/docker /snap/bin/docker.help
I am learning docker by making a single nodejs express app with docker. Here is my Dockerfile

FROM node:lts
USER node
ENV NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/home/node/.npm-global
ENV PATH=$PATH:/home/node/.npm-global/bin
WORKDIR /home/node
COPY package.json .
RUN npm install
COPY . .
CMD ['npm', 'start']

here is my app.js file

const express = require('express');
const app = express()

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('hello world')
})

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('app is renning at 3000');
})

When i start to build an image from this dockerfile i get this error

internal/fs/utils.js:230
    throw err;
    ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js'
    at Object.openSync (fs.js:458:3)
    at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:360:35)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1152:22)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:977:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:877:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:74:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:18:47 {
  errno: -13,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'EACCES',
  path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js'
}
The command '/bin/sh -c npm install --only=prod' returned a non-zero code: 1

Please tell me how can i fix this.
Thanks.

[dmnk89]

I am also new to docker and I have similar problem
trying to follow https://medium.com/@wkrzywiec/build-and-run-angular-application-in-a-docker-container-b65dbbc50be8

with Dockerfile:

FROM node:12.7-alpine AS build
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY package.json ./
RUN npm install

i get

Sending build context to Docker daemon  1.758MB
Step 1/4 : FROM node:12.7-alpine AS build
 ---> d97a436daee9
Step 2/4 : WORKDIR /usr/src/app
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 0050b13e417b
Step 3/4 : COPY package.json ./
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 7fc1bf14ab9e
Step 4/4 : RUN npm install
 ---> Running in 8a5516ae6a57
fs.js:126
    throw err;
    ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js'
    at Object.openSync (fs.js:447:3)
    at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:349:35)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:787:22)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:643:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:556:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:840:10)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:11 {
  errno: -13,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'EACCES',
  path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js'
}
The command '/bin/sh -c npm install' returned a non-zero code: 1

and also there is this issue:

$ docker run node:12.7-alpine
/bin/sh: can't open '/usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh': Permission denied

[LaurentGoderre]

I just tested this locally and it doesn't seem to be a problem with the image itself.

Running docker run --rm -it -u node -e NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/home/node/.npm-global node:lts npm works fine. Can you run ls -lah /home/node and paste the result here?

[dbolan]

That sadly didn't work for me. I'm sure I must be doing something wrong here, since it seems weird that I can't access any of the files at all...

I'm using the same build as binoysarker.

> docker -v
Docker version 18.09.9, build 1752eb3
> docker run --rm -it --entrypoint /bin/sh -u node -e NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/home/node/.npm-global node:lts
$ cd ~
$ ls -lah
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x 2 node node 4.0K May 15 20:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K May 15 20:31 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 node node  220 May 15  2017 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 node node 3.5K May 15  2017 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 node node  675 May 15  2017 .profile
$ cat .bashrc
cat: .bashrc: Permission denied
$ whoami
node
$ npm help
internal/fs/utils.js:230
    throw err;
    ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js'
    at Object.openSync (fs.js:458:3)
    at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:360:35)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1152:22)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:977:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:877:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:74:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:18:47 {
  errno: -13,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'EACCES',
  path: '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js'
}
$ 

[LaurentGoderre]

Did you follow that step when installing docker? https://stackoverflow.com/a/55255557

[dbolan]

I had just been running sudo setfacl -m user:$USER:rw /var/run/docker.sock, but I ran those instructions just to check. Same issue.

I suspected it might have something to do with installing via snap, so I purged the installation and reinstalled using the main ubuntu instructions. Now running Docker version 19.03.9, build 9d988398e7 and everything seems to be working fine.

Still not sure why things had been working for months until just now, but I'm at least up and running again. Thanks for your patience Laurent!

[dmnk89]

same
uninstalling snap and installing from mentioned instructions made my setup work

[LaurentGoderre]

@binoysarker can you try the suggested fix?

[alexbs]

@binoysarker in the Dockerfile, all "RUN" commands (listed after "USER node") will be executed on behalf of a "node" user.

• This is good.
  But other commands (like "COPY") will be still executed on behalf "root" user.

So at first, i recommend to change all you "COPY" commands in this way:

COPY --chown=node:node package.json .
RUN npm install
COPY --chown=node:node . .