<![CDATA[Mirror Update Permissions Error]]>Hi,

My mirror is saying it needs an update but I get the following when I follow instructions to do so. Also, will the update take away all my modifications?

npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/mkdirp
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/nopt
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch/node_modules/safe-buffer
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/spdx-license-ids
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-fetch/node_modules
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! path /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs’
npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, access ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs’]
npm ERR! stack:
npm ERR! ‘Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs'’,
npm ERR! errno: -13,
npm ERR! code: ‘EACCES’,
npm ERR! syscall: ‘access’,
npm ERR! path: ‘/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs’ }
npm ERR!
npm ERR! The operation was rejected by your operating system.
npm ERR! It is likely you do not have the permissions to access this file as the current user
npm ERR!
npm ERR! If you believe this might be a permissions issue, please double-check the
npm ERR! permissions of the file and its containing directories, or try running
npm ERR! the command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-07-09T16_54_50_536Z-debug.log

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/13233/mirror-update-permissions-errorRSS for NodeSat, 16 May 2026 18:21:32 GMTThu, 09 Jul 2020 17:00:59 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:30:44 GMT]]>Ok thanks all, will try :) Sorry for being clueless :man_facepalming_light_skin_tone:

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80211https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80211Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:30:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:16:03 GMT]]>@sdetweil I agree, your scripts works wonders.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80186https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80186Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:16:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:18:51 GMT]]>@mumblebaj that works, but. he made a change. let’s not lose this if it’s important.

use my script anyhow. solves lots of other problems with modules too

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80178https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80178Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:18:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:17:52 GMT]]>@xxLulaBelle from the mm folder do

grep version package.json
]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80177https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80177Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:17:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:33:24 GMT]]>@xxLulaBelle usually when I have this issue i run the following the the MagicMirror folder:

git reset --hard
then
git pull && npm install
That works for me and I am able to update

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80176https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80176Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:33:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:16:15 GMT]]>I have no idea Sam. Honestly complete newb, don’t know what I’m donig half the time :man_facepalming_light_skin_tone:

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80175https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80175Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:16:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:36:24 GMT]]>@xxLulaBelle what version r u on?

grep version package.json

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80139https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80139Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:36:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:42:09 GMT]]>Sorry realised I hadn’t opened Mirror…

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 317969e…10a0407 100644
— a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
“chai”: “^4.1.2”,
“chai-as-promised”: “^7.1.1”,
“current-week-number”: “^1.0.7”,

  • “danger”: “^3.1.3”,
  • “danger”: “^10.2.0”,
    “grunt”: “latest”,
    “grunt-eslint”: “latest”,
    “grunt-jsonlint”: “latest”,
    @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
    “grunt-yamllint”: “latest”,
    “http-auth”: “^3.2.3”,
    “jsdom”: “^11.6.2”,
  • “mocha”: “^7.0.0”,
  • “mocha”: “^8.0.1”,
    “mocha-each”: “^1.1.0”,
    “mocha-logger”: “^1.0.6”,
    “spectron”: “^8.0.0”,
]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80135https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80135Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:42:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:38:56 GMT]]>@sdetweil said in Mirror Update Permissions Error:

git diff package.json

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ git diff package.json
Not a git repository
To compare two paths outside a working tree:
usage: git diff [–no-index]

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80133https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80133Thu, 13 Aug 2020 15:38:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:10:17 GMT]]>@xxLulaBelle we don’t care about the package-lock.json file

but the package.json maybe

do

git diff package.json

to see what was changed.

my update script, from here, https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts, might have helped.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80129https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80129Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:10:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:18:43 GMT]]>Hi,

Now getting this when I try to update.

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror $ git pull && npm install
Updating 447c0bf…018cb91
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
package-lock.json
package.json
Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
Aborting

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80125https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/80125Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:18:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:11:00 GMT]]>@xxLulaBelle
like this notice the dash - in front of the r

sudo chown -R pi ~/.npm
]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78355https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78355Sat, 11 Jul 2020 14:11:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:32:12 GMT]]>Apologies I don’t speak the language so I don’t understand it unfortunately but I did a capital R and got the following:

chown: invalid option – ‘r’
Try ‘chown --help’ for more information.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78353https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78353Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:32:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:22:00 GMT]]>@xxLulaBelle look at the help, does it need capital R, not near my computer

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78352https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78352Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:22:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:17:12 GMT]]>I tried the above as suggested but get this error now:

chown: invalid option – ‘r’
Try ‘chown --help’ for more information.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78351https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78351Sat, 11 Jul 2020 13:17:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 19:02:26 GMT]]>@sdetweil thank you will try this.

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78266https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78266Thu, 09 Jul 2020 19:02:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Mirror Update Permissions Error on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:29:09 GMT]]>@xxLulaBelle do this

cd ~/MagicMirror
sudo chown -r pi node_modules

then update again
may have to do the same for the npm library catalog

sudo chown -r pi ~/.npm

]]>https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78263https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/78263Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:29:09 GMT