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I am trying to start up my application with npm start, however I get the following errors:
rm: cannot remove 'dist/': Device or resource busy
When I try to run an lsof I get the error message: bash: lsof: command not found. I noticed that there is no /usr/sbin/ inside there, but only /usr/share and /usr/ssl/.
I am using this Visual Studio Code bash terminal from within a Windows 10 environment.
How can I resolve this?
If I understand your question I believe you are using WSL on Windows 10, to install lsof you need to run the following command npm install lsof since you have npm installed on your machine, or use the traditional way to install it sudo apt install lsof from Ubuntu\Debian terminal. regarding the other part, once you install lsof you can use lsof -D /mypath then kill the process that use any file in that directory.
Note: if you are using suse then you can use the following commands
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper up
sudo zypper install lsof
edit the command above also work in stand alone Ubuntu\Debian or Suse
npm install lsof and it was successful but bash is still complaining no command found.
Normally in CentOS/Fedora/RHEL I install it this way:
yum install lsof
dnf install lsof
Then I can use it. So first try to install it.
dnf is the modern "drop-in replacement" for yum.
Jun 24, 2021 at 15:31
lsb_release -ato your question? That will help us determine the correct command to use to install lsof.distdirectory lie under one of the windows filesystems such as/mnt/cor/mnt/d? A frequent cause of "device busy" errors in WSL is when the directory or file is in use by a native Windows program.