I have Ubuntu 12.10 running as a VMware guest on my Windows 8 host.

I have shared a folder on my Windows 8 Host and it is mounted in the Ubuntu guest on startup using this entry in fstab:

//myhost/work /work cifs credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials,noserverino,nounix,uid=user,gid=user,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0 

The share works fine and is able to be served by a webserver such as nginx.

However, there seems to be issues when I install node.js packages using npm, I get a bunch of errors like this:

user@ubuntu:/work/test$ sudo npm install grunt

npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/grunt

npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/grunt

...

npm ERR! error rolling back Error: ENOTEMPTY, rmdir '/work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/lodash'

npm ERR! error rolling back  [email protected] { [Error: ENOTEMPTY, rmdir '/work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/lodash']

npm ERR! error rolling back   errno: 53,

npm ERR! error rolling back   code: 'ENOTEMPTY',

npm ERR! error rolling back   path: '/work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/lodash' }

npm ERR! Error: UNKNOWN, symlink '../which/bin/which'

npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:

npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>

npm ERR! or email it to:

npm ERR!     <[email protected]>



npm ERR! System Linux 3.5.0-26-generic

npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "grunt"

npm ERR! cwd /work/test

npm ERR! node -v v0.10.0

npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.14

npm ERR! path ../which/bin/which

npm ERR! code UNKNOWN

npm ERR! errno -1

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, chmod '/work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/findup-sync/test/fixtures/aaa.txt'

npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:

npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>

npm ERR! or email it to:

npm ERR!     <[email protected]>



npm ERR! System Linux 3.5.0-26-generic

npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "grunt"

npm ERR! cwd /work/test

npm ERR! node -v v0.10.0

npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.14

npm ERR! path /work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/findup-sync/test/fixtures/aaa.txt

npm ERR! fstream_path /work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/findup-sync/test/fixtures/aaa.txt

npm ERR! fstream_type File

npm ERR! fstream_class FileWriter

npm ERR! fstream_finish_call chmod

npm ERR! code ENOENT

npm ERR! errno 34

npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/writer.js:305:19

npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:93:15)

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, lstat '/work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/minimatch/test/basic.js'

npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:

npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>

npm ERR! or email it to:

npm ERR!     <[email protected]>



npm ERR! System Linux 3.5.0-26-generic

npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "grunt"

npm ERR! cwd /work/test

npm ERR! node -v v0.10.0

npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.14

npm ERR! path /work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/minimatch/test/basic.js

npm ERR! fstream_path /work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/minimatch/test/basic.js

npm ERR! fstream_type File

npm ERR! fstream_class FileWriter

npm ERR! code ENOENT

npm ERR! errno 34

npm ERR! fstream_stack /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/fstream/lib/writer.js:284:26

npm ERR! fstream_stack Object.oncomplete (fs.js:93:15)

npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, lstat '/work/test/node_modules/grunt/node_modules/glob/test/00-setup.js'

npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this log at:

npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>

npm ERR! or email it to:

npm ERR!     <[email protected]>

...

npm ERR! not ok code 0

user@ubuntu:/work/test$ 

What could be causing this problem? From the command line, I can chmod, rmdir among other things using sudo without any issues.