905332 - [marionette-js-runner] Running the marionette js client integration tests should not require elevated privileges

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Testing Graveyard :: JSMarionette, defect)

Description

[Gareth Aye [:gaye] (back from PTO)]

gareth@albi:~/Documents/marionette_js_client$ make test-integration
npm link
npm ERR! Error: EACCES, symlink '/home/gareth/Documents/marionette_js_client'
npm ERR!  { [Error: EACCES, symlink '/home/gareth/Documents/marionette_js_client']
npm ERR!   errno: 3,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   path: '/home/gareth/Documents/marionette_js_client' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-49-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "link"
npm ERR! cwd /home/gareth/Documents/marionette_js_client
npm ERR! node -v v0.8.14
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.65
npm ERR! path /home/gareth/Documents/marionette_js_client
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno 3
npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, symlink '/home/gareth/Documents/marionette_js_client'
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/gareth/Documents/marionette_js_client/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
make: *** [link] Error 3

Comment 1

[James Lal [:lightsofapollo]]

Looks like you have node installed as root? Not much we can do here if that is the case.

Comment 2

[Gareth Aye [:gaye] (back from PTO)]

So the issue was `npm link`. Running `sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local` fixed things, but I'm still not totally understanding...

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk closed as part of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422750