Getting Error EBUSY: resource busy or locked - pnpm install

[sharonanderson-dev]

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I tried to install dependencies from Package.json file with pnpm install but it's not working I tried in several ways but I can't find a way to solve it.
Here is my debbuged error message.

Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, write
at Object.writeSync (fs.js:568:3)
at Object.writeFileSync (fs.js:1199:26)
at new Gpio (/home/pi/Desktop/pitesting/node_modules/onoff/onoff.js:96:10)
at Object.<anonymous> (/home/pi/Desktop/pitesting/blink.js:3:7)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:754:12)

[santosharron]

Okay this error message usally shows up on windows when something goes wrong while installing the package that's has already been installed. So in order to fix this issue I'll recommend you to clean the temporary files on your pc.
Head over to search bar and search for this term %temp% and delete all the files. Don't worry it's just the temporary files that's been stored on your computer for managing the data. If you delete it nothing will happen so go ahead and do that.

There is another method of solving this but it has been deprecated but I'll tell you how that works as well. Basically you need to clear the temporary data anyways so in order to do that using npm you can run the following command npm cache clean.

Hope it helps :)

[sharonanderson-dev]

Thanks it worked!

[animeshdas2000]

I tried following the above steps, but it didn't work out. Apparently, I was on a different version than the node engine supported by the repository. Changing the node version did help. Leaving this answer here for someone if they get blocked.

[PatrykKuniczak]

Thanks :)

[cope]

@animeshdas2000

Changing the node version did help.

Right, but to what version and how did you figure out which version to switch to? :(

[sijujacobs]

Here's a workaround for similar issue with StencilJS
ionic-team/stencil#5486