An error occurred while running subprocess capacitor

Capacitor
1

Hi,

Unable to perform ionic cap sync:

[capacitor] :heavy_multiplication_x: Updating iOS native dependencies with pod install - failed!
[capacitor] :heavy_multiplication_x: update ios - failed!
[capacitor] [error] /usr/local/Cellar/cocoapods/1.15.2/libexec/gems/claide-1.1.0/lib/claide/command.rb:439:in `help!': [!] You cannot run CocoaPods as root. (CLAide::Help)

Thanks

2

are you using sudo on the capacitor commands or used sudo to install npm packages?

If so, don’t

3

When I don’ use sudo :

ionic cap sync

ng run app:build
⠋ Generating browser application bundles (phase: setup)…An unhandled exception occurred: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir

See “/private/var/folders/vy/06f232jd7_v1b_4lk6fs9dhc0000gn/T/ng-2yZMyR/angular-errors.log” for further details.
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess ng.

    ng run app:build exited with exit code 127.
4

You have to fix your npm permissions, you should never use sudo to run npm commands.

Check Resolving EACCES permissions errors when installing packages globally | npm Docs

But I would recommend using some node manager like nvm that allows to install multiple node versions and switch from them and they don’t present permission problems.

5

I try this but still the same

spoijt@MacBook-Air-de-Geraldine-4 gastonShopBack % nvm use 18
Now using node v18.20.1 (npm v10.5.0)
spoijt@MacBook-Air-de-Geraldine-4 gastonShopBack % ionic cap sync

ng run app:build
⠋ Generating browser application bundles (phase: setup)…An unhandled exception occurred: EACCES: permission denied, rmdir ‘/Users/spoijt/Documents/gaston_back/gastonShopBack/www/assets’
See “/private/var/folders/vy/06f232jd7_v1b_4lk6fs9dhc0000gn/T/ng-sOOYfH/angular-errors.log” for further details.
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess ng.

    ng run app:build exited with exit code 127.
    
    Re-running this command with the --verbose flag may provide more information.
6

As you created the app with sudo the permissions are broken for it even if you switch to nvm, you’ll have to fix the permissions on the app or create a new one and move the code

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Remove ios and add it again. There will be no access issues. I used the shortcut provided by the vscode plugin and the output is as follows

[Ionic] Add iOS...
> npm install @capacitor/ios@6.0.0 --save-exact 
up to date, audited 1229 packages in 4s
206 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details
found 0 vulnerabilities
[Ionic] Add iOS...
> npx cap add ios
✔ Adding native Xcode project in ios in 25.19ms
✔ add in 25.52ms
✔ Copying web assets from browser to ios/App/App/public in 60.47ms
✔ Creating capacitor.config.json in ios/App/App in 5.22ms
✔ copy ios in 126.53ms
✔ Updating iOS plugins in 7.05ms

After that, sync iOS is no problem