error “ETXTBSY: text file is busy” on npm install

Question

When running npm install [any package] or even npm install on homestead I get the following error:

npm ERR! ETXTBSY: text file is b         


        

Answer 1

I was still getting an error, even after doing following

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.customize ["setextradata", :id, 
     "VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/v-root", "1"]
  end

as suggested by Babak Bandpey

It turned out that there was another annoying problem of file path character limit. This happens quite often if you are using a node module with long name. You can easily solve this by following these steps after vagrant ssh into linux vm:

1. Create ‘node_modules’ folder in your home folder mkdir ~/node_modules

2. Add symbolic link to the ‘node_modules’ folder you just created inside your project folder

   ln -sf ~/node_modules /vagrant/your-project-folder

This solution will ensure that all the node modules are stored inside home directory instead of synced folder. Original source : https://blog.rudylee.com/2014/10/27/symbolic-links-with-vagrant-windows/

Hope it helps somone having similar issue, thanks!