[vite-react] NPM RUN BUILD ERROR: EACCES: permission denied, stat '/root/.node_modules/vite/preload-helper'

[yourjhay]

Describe the bug

I encounter this bug when building for production using react, i successfully build the project in my local environment. However when I tried to deploy the app in our testing server, npm run build is not working

Reproduction

npm run build working on local environment but not on test server

System Info

Test Server:  
System:
    OS: Linux 4.15 Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
    CPU: (8) x64 AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)
    Memory: 399.60 MB / 15.29 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 4.4.20 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 14.16.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
    npm: 7.21.1 - /usr/local/bin/npm
  npmPackages:
    @vitejs/plugin-legacy: ^1.6.2 => 1.7.1 
    @vitejs/plugin-react: ^1.0.7 => 1.2.0 
    vite: ^2.8.0 => 2.8.4

Used Package Manager

npm

Logs

[vite:resolve] EACCES: permission denied, stat '/root/.node_modules/vite/preload-helper'
error during build:
Error: EACCES: permission denied, stat '/root/.node_modules/vite/preload-helper'
    at Object.statSync (fs.js:1086:3)
    at isDirectory (/var/www/vhosts/jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/dev.jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/jjwc-frontend/node_modules/resolve/lib/sync.js:31:23)
    at loadNodeModulesSync (/var/www/vhosts/jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/dev.jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/jjwc-frontend/node_modules/resolve/lib/sync.js:200:17)
    at Function.resolveSync [as sync] (/var/www/vhosts/jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/dev.jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/jjwc-frontend/node_modules/resolve/lib/sync.js:107:17)
    at resolveFrom (/var/www/vhosts/jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/dev.jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/jjwc-frontend/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-971d9e33.js:2077:29)
    at resolvePackageData (/var/www/vhosts/jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/dev.jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/jjwc-frontend/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-971d9e33.js:28938:19)
    at /var/www/vhosts/jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/dev.jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/jjwc-frontend/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-971d9e33.js:29319:15
    at Array.find (<anonymous>)
    at tryNodeResolve (/var/www/vhosts/jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/dev.jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/jjwc-frontend/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-971d9e33.js:29318:44)
    at Object.resolveId (/var/www/vhosts/jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/dev.jjwc-hris.bentacos.com/jjwc-frontend/node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-971d9e33.js:29150:28)

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[yourjhay]

[bluwy]

May be related to #6767

[haoqunjiang]

Should have been fixed by https://github.com/vitejs/vite/pull/7612, shipped in Vite 2.9.2.