[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#974069: error Yarn hasn't been able to find a cache folder it can use although folders are writable

[Daniel Leidert]

Package: yarnpkg
Version: 1.22.4-3
Severity: important

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I'm running `rails new ...`. At the end I get this:

[..]
Installing all JavaScript dependencies [4.2.2]
         run  yarnpkg add @rails/webpacker at 4.2.2 from "."
yarn add v1.22.4
warning Skipping preferred cache folder "/home/daniel/.cache/yarn" because it is not writable.
warning Skipping preferred cache folder "/tmp/.yarn-cache-1000" because it is not writable.
warning Skipping preferred cache folder "/tmp/.yarn-cache" because it is not writable.
error Yarn hasn't been able to find a cache folder it can use. Please use the explicit --cache-folder option to tell it what location to use, or make one of the preferred locations writable.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.
Installing dev server for live reloading
         run  yarnpkg add --dev webpack-dev-server from "."
yarn add v1.22.4
warning Skipping preferred cache folder "/home/daniel/.cache/yarn" because it is not writable.
warning Skipping preferred cache folder "/tmp/.yarn-cache-1000" because it is not writable.
warning Skipping preferred cache folder "/tmp/.yarn-cache" because it is not writable.
error Yarn hasn't been able to find a cache folder it can use. Please use the explicit --cache-folder option to tell it what location to use, or make one of the preferred locations writable.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

The folders are writable. I even tried to make /home/daniel/.cache/yarn
world-writeable. This seems odd.

Regards, Daniel

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages yarnpkg depends on:
ii  ca-certificates                    20200601
ii  node-asap                          2.0.6-2
ii  node-babel-runtime                 6.26.0+repack-4
ii  node-bytes                         3.1.0-1
ii  node-camelcase                     5.3.1-1
ii  node-chalk                         2.4.2-1
ii  node-chownr                        1.1.3-5
ii  node-ci-info                       2.0.0+~2.0.0-2
ii  node-cli-table                     0.3.1-2
ii  node-commander                     4.1.1-2
ii  node-death                         1.1.0-1
ii  node-debug                         4.2.0+~cs4.1.5-1
ii  node-deep-equal                    1.0.1-2
ii  node-detect-indent                 6.0.0-1
ii  node-duplexify                     4.1.1-1
ii  node-emoji                         1.10.0-1
ii  node-fast-levenshtein              2.0.6+ds-1
ii  node-glob                          7.1.6+~7.1.3-1
ii  node-imports-loader                0.8.0-2
ii  node-ini                           1.3.5-1
ii  node-inquirer                      3.3.0-3
ii  node-invariant                     2.2.2-1
ii  node-is-builtin-module             2.0.0-1
ii  node-js-yaml                       3.14.0+dfsg-2
ii  node-loud-rejection                2.2.0-1
ii  node-micromatch                    4.0.2+repack+~4.0.1-1
ii  node-minimatch                     3.0.4+~3.0.3-1
ii  node-mkdirp                        1.0.4-3
ii  node-node-uuid                     3.3.2-2
ii  node-object-path                   0.11.5-3
ii  node-path-root                     0.1.1-1
ii  node-proper-lockfile               4.1.1-2
ii  node-puka                          1.0.1+dfsg-1
ii  node-pump                          3.0.0-4
ii  node-pumpify                       2.0.1-1
ii  node-read                          1.0.7-2
ii  node-request                       2.88.1-4
ii  node-request-capture-har           1.2.2-1
ii  node-resolve                       1.18.1-1
ii  node-rimraf                        2.6.3-1
ii  node-semver                        7.3.2-1
ii  node-ssri                          8.0.0-1
ii  node-strict-uri-encode             2.0.0-1
ii  node-strip-ansi                    6.0.0-2
ii  node-strip-bom                     3.0.0-1
ii  node-tar-stream                    1.5.2-2
ii  node-validate-npm-package-license  3.0.4-1
ii  node-yn                            4.0.0-1
ii  nodejs                             12.19.0~dfsg-1

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