Running “ember server” fails with error

Question

I'm trying to get an existing ember app running locally for development, but when I run "ember server" from inside the app directory, I get this error:

version: 0.0.39
Livereload server on port 35729
Serving on http://0.0.0.0:4200
EACCES, unlink 'dist/assets/.gitkeep'
Error: EACCES, unlink 'dist/assets/.gitkeep'

Per this thread https://github.com/stefanpenner/ember-cli/issues/381 I tried doing the following:

npm uninstall -g ember-cli 
rm -rf node_modules
npm cache clear
npm install -g ember-cli
npm install
bower install

Note however I had to use sudo in front of all the npm commands as well as rm -rf node_modules. I also tried per this thread https://github.com/bower/bower/issues/475 and again using sudo:

npm cache clean
npm uninstall -g bower
npm install -g bower

but none of this worked, I still get the same error. I'm new to using all this Ember tooling i.e. npm, bower, ember-cli, etc. and have a feeling I did something wrong during the install process if I'm having to use sudo all the time. Suggestions for how to fix that error?

nem035 nem035 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-10T18:44:27

Ok, I had the same issue and the way to fix is is the following. In your command line (assuming a unix-like system):

Add owner permission to npm: sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm

Now, if bower is also causing you issues, the way to solve this is to clear the bower cache (as suggested by @torazaburo):

bower cache clear

Or you can do it manually:

cd ~/.cache/bower # navigate to the bower cache directory
rm -rf packages   # delete packages directory and its content
rm -rf registry   # delete registry directory and its content

Hope this helps ...

Running “ember server” fails with error

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