error installing create-react: EPERM rename

[mulargui]

Can you reproduce the problem with latest npm?

Yes

Description

Trying to create an app for create-react
What are you reporting?
error when

Expected behavior

Creates the wireframe for a new react app

Actual behavior

Error installing, all is cleaned up

Environment

whoami root
node -v v7.9.0
npm -v 4.5.0
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
docker -v Docker version 17.03.0-ce, build 3a232c8

Reproducible Demo

#start a docker container based on ubuntu
sudo docker run -ti --name REACT -p 8081:3000 -v /vagrant/apps/healthylinkx-ux-react:/myapp ubuntu /bin/bash
#execute these commands
apt-get update && apt-get -y install npm curl
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | bash - && apt-get install -y nodejs
npm install -g npm@latest
npm install -g create-react-app
cd /myapp
create-react-app myapp
attached is the log file from /root/.npm/_logs

[gaearon]

Can you copy and paste the complete command output here?

[mulargui]

Attaching the output of the commands
output.txt

[gaearon]

If you look at the error message, it includes this bit:

npm ERR! code EPERM
npm ERR! errno -1
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename '/myapp/myapp/node_modules/.staging/core-js-8da7547a' -> '/myapp/myapp/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js'

So this is a file permission issue on your system. I don't know how to fix it, but you can either try to run sudo create-react-app myapp or fixing the permissions (ServerFault might be a better place to ask this).

Cheers!