Cordova android build fails immediately [Error: spawn EACCES]

Question

I am just getting started with with Cordova ( PhoneGap ) and trying to build my first project with it, however I am running into a problem with my compilation step- when I t

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue. In my case, I had put the sample cordova project on a different ext3 partition than home folder. Since the partition was not NTFS, permissions shouldn't have been a problem. But when I tried all suggested methods (changing permissions, making everything executable), none of them worked. This problem went away as soon as I created the sample cordova folder in my home partition.