Mirror Update Permissions Error

xxLulaBelle

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

sdetweil

@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

xxLulaBelle

@sdetweil thank you will try this.

xxLulaBelle

I tried the above as suggested but get this error now:

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

sdetweil

@xxLulaBelle look at the help, does it need capital R, not near my computer

xxLulaBelle

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.

sdetweil

@xxLulaBelle
like this notice the dash - in front of the r

sudo chown -R pi ~/.npm

xxLulaBelle

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

sdetweil

@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.

xxLulaBelle

@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]