Throw permission error when using node@v2.1.1

[NajamShehzad]

When I'm trying to install a package globally it throws an error "Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/usr/local/lib/node_modules'"
Was installing lighthouse CLI using "npm i -g @lhci/cli@0.4.x"

[alexrp]

Older versions of the action do not have this issue (e.g. v1.4.3). Unfortunately, older versions are now hitting the add-path/set-env deprecation, making this situation even more annoying.

[linkvt]

I looked into the code and found the reason for this. setup-node said already in v1, that the version parameter is optional, but this is only really the case since v2.

In v1 there was a default set that was used when no version was specified:

setup-node/action.yml

Line 10 in 56899e0

default: '10.x'

In v2 this default is gone which is IMO intended, so setup-node won't do anything with the already existing node installations on the machine. As the runner runs with the runner user and not as root it doesn't have write permissions in /usr/local/bin/node

To use the existing node version to install global packages you should just put a sudo in front of the npm command to have - run: sudo npm install -g package@version.

[dmitry-shibanov]

Hello everyone. I think the issue was fixed from virtual-environments side. I've tried to reproduce the issues on the hosted images from my side but it works as expected.

Could you please confirm that it works for you ?

[NajamShehzad]

Hello everyone. I think the issue was fixed from virtual-environments side. I've tried to reproduce the issues on the hosted images from my side but it works as expected.

Could you please confirm that it works for you ?

Yeah! It's working now :)