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 had to delete the node_modules folder first, then i did

sudo chmod a+x .

for making sure i got the privilege to do anything on the machine, then i

sudo npm install --no-bin-links

no bin links is required in vagrant from my experience because these VM don't support bin links (correct me if im wrong). Then i just

sudo npm run dev

at this point some people might encounter no cross-env found error. In that case, just delete cross-env in package.json file and run it again. It worked for me but some people still encounter the same problem. Might worth to give it a shot.