EACCESS error using homestar-runtime

[daffl]

Summary

On Mac OS (M1), the homestar-runtime binaries are not executable. After installing homestar-runtime with npm i homestar-runtime -g and then running

homestar

The command results in an error.

Problem

Using Node 20 with nvm, Installing homestar-runtimevia npm i homestar-runtime -g and then running homestar will lead to the following error:

Error: spawn /Users/<user>/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/homestar-runtime/node_modules/homestar-darwin-arm64/bin/homestar EACCES
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:286:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'spawn /Users/<user>/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/homestar-runtime/node_modules/homestar-darwin-arm64/bin/homestar',
  path: '/Users/<user>/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/homestar-runtime/node_modules/homestar-darwin-arm64/bin/homestar',
  spawnargs: []
}

Impact

homestar command does not run.

Solution

The binary needs to be made executable by running

chmod +x /Users/<user>/.nvm/versions/node/v20.10.0/lib/node_modules/homestar-runtime/node_modules/homestar-darwin-arm64/bin/homestar

To Reproduce

1. Run npm i homestar-runtime -g
2. Run homestar
3. Observe the error

Expected behavior

Command runs

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Mac OS Sonoma (14.2.1)
• NodeJS (with nvm)
• 20

[zeeshanlakhani]

@daffl Thanks for this! Our next release (0.2.0, later next week) will have this fixed, as we now chmod in the Github Action: https://github.com/ipvm-wg/homestar/blob/main/.github/workflows/builds.yml#L170. I'll close this for now, but will update the issue on next release.

[zeeshanlakhani]

@daffl new npm releases are out for 0.2.0. Let me know if you run into a similar issue and we'll fix it up.