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Cypress trying to write to /root

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior:

Cypress is failing when building in Jenkins with the latest 4.12.1, as it’s trying to write to /root/.cache/Cypress in it’s postinstall script:

> cypress@4.12.1 postinstall /home/jenkins/agent/workspace/iris/web/client-ui/build/js/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'

According to the link, this issue should have been fixed in a previous version, but looks like it’s back. Reverting to my previous version (4.3.0) fixed the issue.

Desired behavior:

Cypress should not try to write to root, and if can’t, it should warn and work without caching. Or there should be an option to configure the cache, or it shouldn’t run automatically in the postinstall script.

Test code to reproduce

Run npm install for a package using Cypress from a user that doesn’t have root access.

Versions

Platform: linux (CentOS - 7.7.1908) Cypress Version: 4.12.1

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:16 (1 by maintainers)

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JUPUDI-VAMSI-KALYANcommented, May 9, 2022

can you elaborate and provide steps you followed?

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mofojedcommented, Aug 17, 2020

@jennifer-shehane I see the comment on #7640 about setting correct permissions - what are the correct permissions to set? And why is there a different in behaviour between 4.3.0 and 4.12.1? I wasn’t getting this error on install with 4.3.0 previously, and I don’t see anything in the changelogs related to updating permissions because of migrating to a new version.

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