UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION Error: EPERM

[biegl]

gyp http 200 http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.1/node-v0.10.1.tar.gz
gyp ERR! UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION 
gyp ERR! stack Error: EPERM, utime '/Users/Markus/.node-gyp/0.10.1'
gyp ERR! System Darwin 12.3.0
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/share/npm/lib/node_modules/testem/node_modules/bufferstream/node_modules/buffertools
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.1
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.8.5
gyp ERR! This is a bug in `node-gyp`.
gyp ERR! Please file an Issue:
gyp ERR!     <https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/issues>
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/lru-cache/-/lru-cache-1.0.6.tgz
npm ERR! buffertools@1.1.0 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! `sh "-c" "node-gyp rebuild"` failed with 7
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the buffertools@1.1.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the buffertools package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls buffertools
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

[mscdex]

Assuming you're installing with root, does root have access to '/Users/Markus/.node-gyp' and/or '/Users/Markus/.node-gyp/0.10.1'?

[TooTallNate]

It's probably more the fact that npm downgrades user permissions of spawned child processes when run as root. I was leaving it open because of the UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION part (meaning I'm not catching the "error" event somewhere...).

I should look into using domains soon :p

[devaKumaraswamy]

I am able to reproduce this consistently on Centos just trying to install "ref" or "ffi".(see log at end of this note). The permissions on the offending directory'..... /.node-gyp/0.10.29' is:

.node-gyp:
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 3 kumar r&d 4096 Jul 16 12:07 .
drwxrwxrwx 100 kumar r&d 36864 Jul 17 09:04 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 16 12:07 0.10.29

.node-gyp/0.10.29:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 16 12:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 kumar r&d 4096 Jul 16 12:07 ..

Naively I am assuming that at the point of this failure the code is not running either under root or my id. I would be glad to debug it further if I can get some pointers as to where to start looking.
I want to point out that it installs perfectly under Ubuntu.

Log:
node-gyp rebuild

gyp ERR! UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION
gyp ERR! stack Error: EPERM, utime '/r/testserver/vol/vol610/u61/kumar/.node-gyp/0.10.29'
gyp ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64
gyp ERR! command "node" "/r/testserver/vol/vol610/u61/kumar/node-v0.10.29-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /r/testserver/vol/vol610/u61/kumar/slim-sas/node_modules/ref
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.29
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.13.1
gyp ERR! This is a bug in node-gyp.
gyp ERR! Try to update node-gyp and file an Issue if it does not help:
gyp ERR! https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/issues
npm ERR! ref@0.3.2 install: node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Exit status 7
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the ref@0.3.2 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the ref package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls ref
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64
npm ERR! command "node" "/r/testserver/vol/vol610/u61/kumar/node-v0.10.29-linux-x64/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /r/testserver/vol/vol610/u61/kumar/slim-sas
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.29
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.14
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

ffi@1.2.7 install /r/testserver/vol/vol610/u61/kumar/slim-sas/node_modules/ffi
node-gyp rebuild

[tk120404]

@biegl Can you please close this issue if this is not issue any more?

[gibfahn]

If this is still an issue comment and I'll reopen.