ENOTDIR: not a directory on start on Mac

[MicrowaveDev]

• Version: 0.4.8
• Platform: Darwin mac.local 17.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 17.7.0: Thu Jun 21 22:53:14 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4570.71.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Type: Bug

Severity: Critical

Description: Error on trying to start on Mac

{ [Error: ENOTDIR: not a directory, rmdir '/Users/jonybang/.jsipfs/repo.lock']
  errno: -20,
  code: 'ENOTDIR',
  syscall: 'rmdir',
  path: '/Users/jonybang/.jsipfs/repo.lock' }

Steps to reproduce the error:

const IPFS = require('ipfs');

module.exports = async () => {
    const node = new IPFS();

    try {
        await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            node.on('ready', (err) => err ? reject(err) : resolve());
            node.on('error', (err) => reject(err))
        });
        console.log('🎁 IPFS node have started');
    } catch (e) {
        console.error('❌ IPFS not started', e);
    }
};

[alanshaw]

Ensure there's no IPFS node running and if there's is, stop it and then try again. Two IPFS nodes can't use the same repo at the same time.

If that doesn't work and there's no nodes running then remove that file with rm /Users/jonybang/.jsipfs/repo.lock and then try again.