Why does Serverless produce an Invalid Cross-device link Error when trying to package or deploy?

Question

When running either command: sudo serverless package or sudo serverless deploy

I get the following traceback:

Error: ERROR: Excepti

Answer 1

I just had a similar problem. See this issue for a possible solution.

In summary,

1. Remove all cached packages in /Library/Caches/serverless-python-requirements/
2. Remove existing docker image lambci/lambda build-python3.8