Pimatic won't install anymore

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A few days ago my pimatic installation stopped running and i started to get a lot of errors in the log.
So I decided to do a complete fresh install and reinstall Raspbian Jessie Lite on my RPi2.

After following the pimatic install steps and having installed NodeJS I get the errors while running npm install pimatic --prefix pimatic-app --production:

npm ERR! Linux 4.9.24-v7+
npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install” “pimatic” “–prefix” “pimatic-app” "–production"
npm ERR! node v4.6.2
npm ERR! npm v2.15.11
npm ERR! path /tmp/npm-4599-fec1db46
npm ERR! code EROFS
npm ERR! errno -30
npm ERR! syscall mkdir

npm ERR! rofs EROFS: read-only file system, mkdir '/tmp/npm-4599-fec1db46’
npm ERR! rofs This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! rofs and is related to the file system being read-only.
npm ERR! rofs
npm ERR! rofs Often virtualized file systems, or other file systems
npm ERR! rofs that don’t support symlinks, give this error.
npm ERR! Linux 4.9.24-v7+
npm ERR! argv “/usr/local/bin/node” “/usr/local/bin/npm” “install” “pimatic” “–prefix” “pimatic-app” "–production"
npm ERR! node v4.6.2
npm ERR! npm v2.15.11
npm ERR! path npm-debug.log.2926915621
npm ERR! code EROFS
npm ERR! errno -30
npm ERR! syscall open

npm ERR! rofs EROFS: read-only file system, open 'npm-debug.log.2926915621’
npm ERR! rofs This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! rofs and is related to the file system being read-only.
npm ERR! rofs
npm ERR! rofs Often virtualized file systems, or other file systems
npm ERR! rofs that don’t support symlinks, give this error.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/pi/npm-debug.log

Does anybody know why i’m getting this error?

Thanks in advance,

Jarno

npm-debug.log

https://we.tl/8rty1BEteU

@jarnoglenn as it states, it cant write to a read only dir, now the question is why… Please try again and post full terminal output here.

@jarnoglenn try these commands

sudo rm -r ~/.npm

sudo npm update

Try again.

Hello Gleno0H,

Thank you for your reply.

I can’t remove the .npm directory because it’s not found. Where is it supposed to be?

sudo npm update executed without errors but the pimatic error remains the same.

When trying to delete the complete pimatic-app i get the following error: "cannot create temp file for here-document: Read-only file system"
So it seems like the whole filesystem is mounted as ‘read-only’.

I’m running Raspbian from USB stick and used this guide for the install:
https://www.stewright.me/2013/05/install-and-run-raspbian-from-a-usb-flash-drive/

I will continue searching online and try to figure out why my filesystem is mounted as read-only.

@jarnoglenn NTFS filesystem?

Try following command, replace with your details;

sudo mount -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/yourusb /your/mount/dir

seems that you first need to get write access to your filesystem.

I think i’ve found the problem.
Since the latest raspbian doesn’t have SSH enabled by default anymore I tried to create the ‘ssh’ file to enable it on startup.
I did this by creating the file in OSX, that probably caused the filesystem to corrupted/read-only.

I did another install and enabled SSH manually with raspi-config. Everything seems to be working again. Problem solved!

For reference, here is the article describing why SSH access is now disabled by default and how you can make sure it will be enabled as part of your setup. https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-security-update-for-raspbian-pixel/