npm ci fails on trying to chmod bin/cdk

I use containers in my CI/CD pipeline that have specific versions of CDK globally preinstalled. When running npm ci I get this error

$ npm ci
npm WARN deprecated har-validator@5.1.5: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated request-promise-native@1.0.9: request-promise-native has been deprecated because it extends the now deprecated request package, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall chmod
npm ERR! path /builds/reporting/sepa_service/node_modules/aws-cdk/bin/cdk
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/builds/reporting/sepa_service/node_modules/aws-cdk/bin/cdk'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /build/.npm/_logs/2021-01-05T13_09_59_080Z-debug.log

Note that the container is pristine, there’s no node_modules folder yet.

Here are my devDependencies:

  "devDependencies": {
    "@aws-cdk/assert": "1.79.0",
    "@types/jest": "^26.0.10",
    "@types/node": "10.17.27",
    "aws-cdk": "1.79.0",
    "jest": "^26.6.3",
    "ts-jest": "^26.2.0",
    "ts-node": "^9.0.0",
    "typescript": "~3.9.7"
  },

I’ve already tried different versions of CDK, more recent versions of the dependent libraries - it doesn’t work.

To the best of my knowledge I have started observing this behaviour since upgrading to npm 7.3.0 (from 6.14.5), going back to an older version didn’t change the behavious.

Here’s now the folder in question looks like when the install fails:

ls -l node_modules/aws-cdk/
drwxr-xr-x 157 build build 5024 Jan  5 13:53 node_modules

Environment

• CDK CLI Version : 1.18.147
• Framework Version: 1.79.0
• Node.js Version: v14.4.0
• OS : Amazon Linux 2 container
• Language (Version): TypeScript (3.9.7)

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[Blufe]

I also happened with NPM (7.5.3 | 7.5.4) and CDK (1.90.0 | 1.90.1). Earlier CDK versions worked fine.

Update) After setting NPM 7.5.4 and CDK 1.90.1 and executing the following command, the installation was successful.

rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json 
npm cache clean -f
npm install

[mrgrain]

npm 7.5.5+ and 7.6.0+ solved this issue for me.