Error: ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rmdir '/app/node_modules/.vite/dep'

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#1

Hello!

Our React project suddenly crashed and is getting this error. Did anyone encounter this kind of problem? I’ll add the whole log

error when starting dev server:

Error: ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rmdir ‘/app/node_modules/.vite/deps’

at rmdirSync (fs.js:706:3)

at removeDirSync (/rbd/pnpm-volume/f1106cdb-a616-46d9-93cf-7dee293861b3/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-611778e0.js:37278:9)

at loadCachedDepOptimizationMetadata (/rbd/pnpm-volume/f1106cdb-a616-46d9-93cf-7dee293861b3/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-611778e0.js:37058:5)

at createOptimizedDeps (/rbd/pnpm-volume/f1106cdb-a616-46d9-93cf-7dee293861b3/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-611778e0.js:58475:28)

at Server.httpServer.listen (/rbd/pnpm-volume/f1106cdb-a616-46d9-93cf-7dee293861b3/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-611778e0.js:59049:45)
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#2

I’ve also been encountering this problem, and it’s really, really weird how it’s happening.
I have a project saved from a while ago using a Vite frontend and an Express backend, and it works perfectly fine. However, if you remix it, it suddenly breaks with that exact error.

#3

The newest versions of Vite just seem to brick Glitch. Downgrading to v2.8.6 worked for me.

#4

*break⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

#5

can you do a ls -al /app/node_modules/.vite/ the next time this happens?

I searched around for that path, and it looks like it’s configurable. if the node_modules is behaving too weird (it’s got some mystery to it with how Glitch separates it from your app storage), maybe try something like /tmp/vite :person_shrugging:

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