Cypress cannot write to the cache directory due to file permissions in Bitbucket pipeline

Current behavior

When running npm install in bitbucket pipelines, this happens:

> cypress@6.4.0 postinstall /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/node_modules/cypress
> node index.js --exec install
Cypress cannot write to the cache directory due to file permissions
See discussion and possible solutions at
https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1281
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Failed to access /root/.cache/Cypress:
EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/root/.cache/Cypress'
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Desired behavior

Don’t write to the root directory. This should be fixed since 4.6.0, according to #1281

Test code to reproduce

Create a Bitbucket repository, enable pipelines, do npm i in the Bitbucket pipeline.

Versions

6.4.0

[marcosaguilera-glober]

I was getting same issue: # EACCES: permission denied, mkdir ‘/root/.cache/Cypress’

I’ve fixed like this:

1. In my Dockerfile

#Cypress version using
FROM cypress/included:10.6.0

# Installing sudo for superower installation required
# into entrypoint.sh
RUN apt-get install sudo

# Directories actions
WORKDIR /home/pwsh/tempVolume

ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/sh", "./entrypoint.sh"]

1. In my entrypoint.sh script file

#!/bin/sh
echo "I'm into the sh file"

## Install packages defined into package.json > dependencies node
##npm install
sudo npm install --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

## Run cypress
cypress run

I messed up a time with this issue, and I tried with permissions chown node:node, also some chmod -R 777, but nothing worked for me, so I installed sudo apt-get into Linux distro.

Hope this help anyone.

[gustavodamazio]

Try using yarn package manager or downgrading npm to version 7. For me it worked correctly.

I’m using Jenkins in an alpine linux container with node 16.

    stage('Prepare-build') {
    steps {
        sh 'node --version'
        sh 'npm --version'
        sh 'ls -p'
        sh 'git config --global --add safe.directory "*"'
        sh 'yarn install'
    }
}

The error I was getting is the following:

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/jenkins/agent/workspace/project/app/project-web-manager/node_modules/cypress
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh /tmp/postinstall-716e113e.sh
npm ERR! Cypress cannot write to the cache directory due to file permissions
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! See discussion and possible solutions at
npm ERR! https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1281
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! ----------
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed to access /root/.cache/Cypress:
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/root/.cache/Cypress'
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! ----------
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Platform: linux-x64 (Alpine Linux - 3.16.1)
npm ERR! Cypress Version: 10.6.0

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2022-08-18T17_09_27_887Z-debug-0.log

In my same case export the environment variable cypress cache folder did not work as expected, the error was even made mentioned above.

export CYPRESS_CACHE_FOLDER="/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/project/app/.cache"