NPM stuck giving the same error EISDIR Illegal operation on a directory read at error native

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I am stuck with this error no matter what directory I am in  and what I type after  npm  in cmd exe  Here is the npm-debug log    0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli    C   Program Files  nodejs  node exe   1 verbose cli    C   Program Files  nodejs  node modules  npm  bin  npm-cli js    2 info using npm 2 14 12 3 info using node v4 2 6 4 verbose stack Error  EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  read 4 verbose stack     at Error  native  5 verbose cwd C  Users me 6 error Windows NT 6 1 7601 7 error argv  C   Program Files  nodejs  node exe   C   Program Files  nodejs  node modules  npm  bin  npm-cli js  8 error node v4 2 6 9 error npm  v2 14 12 10 error code EISDIR 11 error errno -4068 12 error syscall read 13 error eisdir EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  read 13 error eisdir This is most likely not a problem with npm itself 13 error eisdir and is related to npm not being able to find a package json in 13 error eisdir a package you are trying to install  14 verbose exit   -4068  true     I have tried and uninstalling reinstalling nodejs multiple times  I even deleted npm and npm-cache folders in C  Users me AppData Roaming  I m not sure what went wrong to cause this  One second it was working fine  and now I can t get rid of this error  The explanation in the log does not make sense  as it gives this error in any directory  I should note that running a command prompt as administrator does not give this error  I m pulling my hair out this Friday evening trying to get this fixed  any help would be greatly appreciated

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Make sure to check your version of npm and whether or not there are issues with it  I was having the same issue at the time of this post and I discovered that my npm version  6 5  was having issues  I had to uninstall and reinstall npm version 6 4 1 and then everything started to work great again

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I had the same issue  There was a linked folder in my directory which was causing the issue  i added that folder to ignore list and then it started working fine as expected

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For mac os  If installed directly from nodejs website the npmrc file would be located in  usr local etc npmrc  Just delete the config which is undefined and this problem would be fixed

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I had this issue with gulp  The problem was that gulp added a dependency to my source file and I think npm tried to open it        name    name      version    2 0 0      description          main    gulpfile js      scripts          test    echo   Error  no test specified    amp  amp  exit 1          author          license    ISC      devDependencies          appname    file   gulp        gulp-concat     2 6 1        gulp-electron     0 1 3        gulp-shell     0 5 2        gulp-uglify     2 0 0        gulp-util     3 0 7        node-7z     0 4 0          Make sure that there are no strange references in you package json file

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Had the same problem today after i ve upgraded my npm from version 6 4 1 to version 6 5 0  I fixed this by downloading the  pkg installer  recommended for most users  from node js and runned it afterwards

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I had the same issue on Mac OS X  installed with homebrew   and the  npmrc is not the only place node stored config variables  There is a glocal npmrc config file in  usr local etc that you have to edit using this command    sudo nano npmrc   Remove the ca  line  or whatever the config setting was that broke your install  save that file  and try npm again  and you should see it working

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I fixed this issue by moving my directory from my exFAT drive which does not support symlinking   My exFat drive is shared between osx and a bootcamp windows partition so when I tried to clone and npm install my project it was failing but never explains that exFAT doesn t support this functionality   There are drivers out there that you can install to add the ability to symlink but you ll have to do a lot of your setup manually compared to running a simple npm script

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I had faced similar issue  I set cafile using the command   npm config set cafile PATH TO CERTIFICATE   I was able to resolve this by deleting the certificate file settings  and setting strict-ssl   false

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Had the same problem until I tried deleting the  git folder  It worked  I guess this type of problem can have different causes

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I had a similar problem while setting up boilerplate code  It was reading my bundle js file as a directory  So as stated here  EISDIR mean its a directory and not a file  To fix the issue  I deleted the file and just recreated  it was originally created automatically   If you cannot find the file  because its hidden   simply use the terminal to find and delete it

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Just delete  npmrc folder in c users gt  username  and try running the command it will be resolved

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Make sure node modules  and your root package json  doesn t contain a reference to npm s  package json  module  Deleting package json FOLDER from node modules solved the issue for me

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I ran into the same problem while I was changing some npm settings  I did a mistake with one npm config set command and this added a line referring to a non-existing directory to C  Users  User   npmrc  After I deleted that line manually from  npmrc  the problem was gone

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I just removed the line    babel  resources assets js app js     for laravel 5 6 with vue js  in webpack mix js

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In my case  I m using Windows 10 in Spanish and this version mixes English and Spanish directory names  My problem was that the desktop directory has this name for some commands and escritorio to others  I believe that npm cannot resolve this  My solution was to simply change to another directory starting from C   different to my home directory

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In my case issue was that space character was in the name of the source folder  Windows 10

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I know this isn t specifically asking about forever js   but google lead me here so   For me it was as simple as an ending slash   I just changed   forever start -a -l  dev null   var www node my file js   To   forever start -a -l  dev null  var www node my file js   And the error disappeared

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Doing a complete uninstall  including removing paths  etc and reinstalling has solved the problem  very strange problem though   How to completely remove node js from Windows

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On Mac  Per-user config file     npmrc

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In my case these steps solved my problem    terminating npm process  CTRL   C  deleting entire folder creating new one running npm again

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This happened to me on npm publish --access public command  Project contained directory named package json  This error is sad - because project HAS to have this directory and named exactly package json  it was part of test case fixture to assert correct behavior of this lib

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If your problem is associated with the React Native packager  Try resetting the cache with react-native start --reset-cache

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In my case  I am working on angularv10 with material  I had changed some script files and forgot to remove these empty  quot  quot  in the scripts array scripts        bla  bla  etc   quot  quot   remove these empty quot  quot  npm clear-cache --force close and open vscode It worked

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In my case I was getting the  EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  read  because in my  angular-cli json file I wasn t providing a full path in  scripts    For example I had   scripts                 node modules hammerjs               node modules moment             In fact it should have been    scripts                 node modules hammerjs hammer min js               node modules moment min moment min js

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Check to ensure you are running npm install from the proper directory    The package json file could be one extra directory down  for example

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In my case  the C  Users  user  AppData local npm files were hidden  so I was not able to find  amp  delete the trouble directory  Took me DAYS to realize this  So double check to un-hide any folders so you don t miss them   Here s a link to do this if you don t know how

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These strange errors occured recently on my OSX machine   I could help myself the quick  amp  dirty way by running   sudo chmod -R 777  usr local lib node modules   Something seemed to have messed up the access rights of all global node modules

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I had a broken symlink to node modules in a subfolder

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In my case I forgot to pass the full path of one of the file it was asking  After passing full path of the file worked

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For me fixing was add slash after directory name

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In my case  i was facing this issue while installing create-react-app in MAC  Mojave OS  with following command    sudo npm install create-react-app -g   and got errors like this    npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 src scheduler  npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 src symbol  npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 src testing  npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 src util  npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 src webSocket  npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 symbol  npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 testing  npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 util  npm WARN tar EISDIR  illegal operation on a directory  open   usr local lib node modules  staging rxjs-a84420a7 webSocket    I have read npm community that try to install without sudo    npm install create-react-app -g   and it actually solved my issue

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EISDIR stands for  Error  Is Directory   This means that NPM is trying to do something to a file but it is a directory  In your case  NPM is trying to  read  a file which is a directory  Line  4   Since the operation cannot be done the error is thrown   Three things to make sure here     Make sure the file exists  If it does not  you need to create it   If NPM depends on any specific information in the file  you will need to have that information there   Make sure it is in fact a file and not a directory  It has the right permissions  You can change the file to have all permissions with  sudo chmod 777 FILE NAME    Careful  You are giving Read  Write and Execute permissions to every one on that file

[node.js] NPM stuck giving the same error EISDIR: Illegal operation on a directory, read at error (native)

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